Animals are often killed in anticipation of an invasion, out of concern for public safety — big cats and bears escaping their battle-damaged enclosures tend to complicate the defense of a city.

为了应对预期将至的入侵，考虑到公共安全，动物们经常被杀死——大型猫科动物和熊类会因围栏在战斗中损毁而逃逸，这对城市防卫来说无异于雪上加霜。

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Licensed shops along puddle-filled Watan Street in the city centre have reopened for the first time since they were looted in the wake of the American-led invasion.

沿着市中心的专营酒水的Watan 街的有营业执照的店铺在遭受由美国人起头的一系列抢劫事件后，首次重新开业。

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The now referred to Ming City Wall is a symbol for Nanjing that has survived, although scarred and beaten, through centuries of attack all the way up to the invasion by Japan in the 1930s.

而现在仍安若磐石的明城墙是南京独特文明的象征。 虽然历经风吹雨打，历经战火硝烟，数百年来，尽管伤痕累累，如今，却仍然挺立着雄奇伟岸的身躯。

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And that, I think, we have to understand as being because of his function in the situation, namely there is a multi-city invasion of Troy being carried on by these Mycenaean Greeks.

基于这个问题,我们先要明白,他的地位以及所起的作用,许多迈锡尼的希腊城邦联合起来,对特洛伊发起进攻的时候

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It's been characterized as some of the fiercest fighting that has gone on in that city since the invasion.

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Today, more than four years since the invasion, the city averages about six hours of electricity a day.

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But were they worse than, say, the pitch invasion at the Birmingham City v Aston Villa tie in the Carling Cup quarter-final?

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