On the eve of the war, the two parties both made full preparations.

临战前双方都进行了充分的准备。

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On the eve of the first world war, Eichengreen shows, the Dutch guilder, Belgian franc and Austrian schilling were all more important as reserve currencies than the dollar.

埃森格林指出，第一次世界大战爆发前夕，荷兰盾、比利时法郎和奥地利先令都是比美元更重要的储备货币。

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Russian NATO envoy Rogozin says poor relations between Russia and the alliance over Georgia remind him of tensions in Europe on the eve of World War I.

俄罗斯驻北约大使罗戈津说，俄罗斯与北约因为格鲁吉亚所引发的紧张关系，就如同第一次世界大战前夕欧洲的紧张气氛。

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has testified at his war crimes trial that he did not meet with a rebel leader on the eve of the invasion of Sierra Leone.

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Dado wanted to call up reserves in preparation for a full-scale military attack on the eve of the war.

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The former foreign minister, who said on the eve of the war he would rather die than be taken into U.S. custody, had suffered two recent heart attacks.

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The two biggest protests in the last decade two of the biggest ever were by the Countryside Alliance in 2002 and the one on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003.

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