That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.

对于现在读者，它的震惊效果并未削弱，尽管现代的战争不再那样野蛮残忍。

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He could be a brutal editor and a savage critic of flabby ideas.

他或许是一位严厉的编辑，对不成熟的意见，他或许还是一位不留情面的批评者。

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Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.

他死后将近百年了，这个世界变得更加野蛮、更加残忍、更加无情。

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Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would do "everything we can to hunt down" those behind the "brutal and savage" attack.

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Mr Cameron, updating MPs on the situation after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency response committee, Cobra, expressed "disgust and condemnation" at the "brutal and savage attack".

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He was not in any control of another savage drive that brought him four off Hoggard, and was then felled by a brutal Flintoff bouncer that missed the back of the helmet as he took his eye of the ball and smacked into his head.

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