But when he plotted his results, he found that these diverse events fell into a regular pattern. It was as if the chaos of war seemed to comply with some hitherto unknown law of nature.

当他把这些数据作图时，发现这些性质不一的战争却呈现出某种有规律的模式，似乎战争的混乱也遵循着一些至今还无人知晓的自然法则。

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And it is exacerbated by the return of millions of war refugees and by decades of upheaval that have left land tenure in chaos.

此外，几百万战时难民的返乡，以及数十年战乱带来的土地所有权的混乱，也都是问题恶化的主要原因。

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Until the World War brought chaos to most of their institutions, their whole lives were regulated; perhaps more than those of any other people save the Spaniards, by a regard for precedent.

在第一次世界大战给他们的大部分风俗习惯带来变化之前，他们的所有生活，除了西班牙人之外，或许比其它民族都更受到先例的制约。

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