Is it worth fighting a big war, in the name of an abstraction like sovereignty?

以象主权这样一个抽象概念的名义，值得打一场大战吗？

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Why should I hope for a big war so that I could join up and get killed?

为什么我就应该盼望发生大战呢？难道就是为了能参军战死吗？

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There's a big war going on outside, but the focus of the conflict is much more intimate and personal.

外面正进行着一场大战，而冲突的焦点却要个人和私人得多。

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They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

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The only other time we've seen a boom like this was right after World War II and that's shown by this line here; that wasn't as big.

我们可以看到,类似的繁荣,只在第二次世界大战之后出现过,就像这条线所显示的,这个增量不大

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set in World War Two, so a very big moment in our history, so.

以二战为背景，这是我们历史上非常重要的时刻。

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Defense shares need the overall defense budget on the rise, big war deterrence spending.

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The closest big war to South Africa is in Angola, over 1, 000km away.

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When the next big war erupted, he focused his talent on developing a revolutionary process to construct the mighty Liberty Ships.

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