It was against this backdrop of racial tension that the civil war began.

这场内战肇端于种族之间的紧张状态。

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When the wood was gone and civil war began, the islanders began toppling the moai.

当森林消失，内战开始，岛上的居民开始推倒摩艾石像。

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Shortly after Lincoln entered office the Civil War began.

林肯就任不久，内战爆发。

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The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The final Union campaign of the Civil War began on May third, eighteen sixty-four.

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Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.

BBC: Legendary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke at 80