A Sheffield girl—two when the war began; eight when it finished—remembers asking in her letter to Santa Claus for “any little thing you can spare.”

一个谢菲尔德市的女孩——当战争开始时她只有两岁,而战争结束时已经八岁了——还记得在她写给圣诞老人的信里请求得到“任何你能够匀出来的小东西。”

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She was only fourteen when the war began in 1914, but throughout the next four years she became much beloved by many, many soldiers whom she helped and befriended.

她只有14岁时在1914年战争开始，而且在整个未来4年她成为很多很多，被她帮助和结识许多士兵爱戴。

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When the war began, there were 22, 000 miles of railroad track in the North and just 9, 000 in the South, and the North had almost all of the nation’s track and locomotive factories.

战争开始时，北方拥有22,000英里铁轨，南方仅有9,000英里；而且北方拥有几乎全国的铁轨或机车的制造厂。

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But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

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Thomas was born in 1878, so he was thirty-six when the war began.

托马斯于1878年出生，战争开始的时候他36岁。

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Some 60, 000 people have died since 1983, when the war began, and perhaps 800, 000, out of a population of 19m, have been displaced.

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Many in the German minority had joined the Fascist movement, celebrated when the war began, and taken advantage of their privileged status during the years of occupation.

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