There is something strange about Sri Lanka's 24-year ethnic war, a mismatch of high and low intensity, of first world and third, that almost savours of fiction.

斯里兰卡长达24年之久的种族战争有一些奇怪的东西，强度的高低以及类似第一世界和第三世界的一般的强弱悬殊，颇有小说的意味。

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The reserves of blood derivatives left from World War II will largely be outdated by the end of 1950, though some can be reprocessed, at about a third of the cost of new products.

二战时血液制品的储备在1950年底，很多已经过期失效，有一些可以被再加工，其成本是约新产品的三分之一。

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Two trials examined military recruits and the third studied boys from "lower wage-earning classes" attending a boarding school in the UK during World War II.

其中两篇试验以入伍新兵为研究对象，而第三篇的研究对象则来自于二次世界大战期间就读于英国某所住宿学校的“低收入户”男童。

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That has moved around a lot, but it got almost up to 60% in the post World War II period and now it's down to less than a third.

计算所得的百分率变动很大,二战后,它一度达到将近60%,现在又降到不到三分之一

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After all, the most Mr Yeltsin has been prepared to do is warn the West of the dangers of a third world war.

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The ASA and IAAF have been pointing fingers at each other, while South Africa's sports minister Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile threatened a "third world war" should the IAAF ban Semenya from competing.

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So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.

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