他在战争之前早就退休了。

He retired long before the war.

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格雷斯国教教堂是在南北战争之前建造的，位于一个远离人烟的地方，是岩石和灰泥结构，教堂的周围环绕着森林和农田。

Built back before the civil war, Grace Episcopal Church is a stone and stucco structure out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest and fields.

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“战争之前，大家对来自外界的文化一无所知，不过现在有那么多人喜欢西方文化”，巴格达大学社会学教授卡瓦科布·萨拉汉·哈米德认为。

"Before the war, no one knew about the cultures from outside, but now so many people know about Western culture," says Kawakeb Salah Hamed, a sociology professor at Baghdad University.

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It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

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His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

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