The result was, as he puts it, "a quasi alliance," which, though initially intended to contain the Soviet Union, ended up outliving the Cold War.

结果是，用他的话说“准联盟”，虽然最初的设想是遏制苏联，最终却超出了冷战时期。

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But for problems demanding an iron will and a quasi-military strategy, like the war on crime, few were better suited.

但是对于那些需要钢铁意志和准军事策略的问题，像与犯罪开战，很少人会比他更胜任。

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It is also a quasi-Freudian biblio-adventure, looping and twisting through the streets of post-war Barcelona and in among the pages of books, in search of lost fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.

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