The bus boycott lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement.

抵制公交车活动持续了一年多，并引发了一场人权运动。

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For his service, Carter would earn a civil servants wage of around $2, 500 a year.

对于这项工作，卡特每年享受2500美元工资公务员待遇。

youdao

The infighting is some of the most serious since Hamas routed Fatah forces in the Gaza civil war a year ago.

这次内讧是自从哈马斯在一年前的内战中赶走加沙地带的法塔赫势力以来最严重的一次。

youdao

It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

He is referring to reports that the Army was planning a coup following the end of the 25-year-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The role of civil society groups took a major step forward following ASEAN meetings earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Next month, it expects to start work with a squad of 15 trained rats in Angola, where as many as six million land mines remain from a civil year.

WSJ: Sniffing Out a More-Efficient Mine Sweeper

Ran a civil bonfire every year, with discos and barbecues with that.

BBC: News Online

Since Richard Leakey, a former opposition politician who was appointed head of the civil service a year ago, has made some headway, it now seems likely that the donors will re-open the aid taps later this year.

ECONOMIST: Kenyan gloom | The