They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

以色列人选择新神，争战的事就临到城门。那时，以色列四万人中岂能见盾牌枪矛呢。

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In some meetings, Gates would rarely speak; in others, he told stories from his Cold War glory days or cracked jokes about Washington's stuffed shirts.

在一些会议上，盖茨难得开口说话，而其他一些会议，则讲述他在冷战辉煌岁月的故事，或讲些有关华盛顿那些自命不凡的顽固者的笑话。

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Scott Gates is director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

斯考特·盖茨是奥斯陆国际和平研究所内战研究中心主任，同时是挪威科学技术大学教授。

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During the next year,Gates said, it will be critical to show that progress has been made in the war in Afghanistan.

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He is against the arbitrary taking, the singling out of Bill Gates to finance the war in Iraq.

他反对肆意掠夺，反对特地挑选比尔·盖茨，为伊战出资。

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Facing eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan, U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon President Barack Obama's new strategy for the conflict has not been given a chance to work.

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GARCIA-NAVARRO: Stillwater has spent her first week in Iraq in the heavily protected Green Zone, the complicated war outside its gates still beyond her grasp.

NPR: An Activist Grandma, 'Embedded' in Iraq

Nations always prepare to fight their last war, and now Gates' Pentagon is thinking only about what the U.S. needs to defeat jihadists in sandy and rocky environments.

FORBES: A new Japanese government could strain ties with America.

The Times article noted that seven years ago Bill Gates predicted the war on spam would be won in two years.

FORBES: Spam's Silver Bullet? Not so Fast