The first World War broke out in 1914.

第一次世界大战于1914年爆发。

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She writes about British spinsters, in particular about the ones that would have married the “lost generation” of the first world war.

作品描写的是一群终身未嫁的英国女性，特别是那些原本可能嫁给一战“迷茫一代”的女性。

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And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

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Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.

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Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.

叶芝显然是在爱尔兰国内战争时期进行创作的，但是同时他也是在,一战的阴影下写的。

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And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

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He was sucked into it by the global disorder that followed the first world war.

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John Keegan, The First World War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, pp. 24-47.

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His father was an English insurance broker who came to Mexico after the first world war.

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