奇怪的战争,历史文献中流行的对英法联军在第二次世界大战初期(1939年9月3日至1940年5月10日)与德国作战中无所作为的称谓。
至于在引向战争发生的那些时日里谁做了什么,谁决定了什么,我们还是无法获得一份详细的“大事记”(这有点奇怪),因此要准确分析战争起因仍然不大可能。
With a detailed chronology of who did and decided whatin the days and hours leading up to the war still (oddly) unavailable, anaccurate assessment of the causes of war is still impossible.
斯里兰卡长达24年之久的种族战争有一些奇怪的东西,强度的高低以及类似第一世界和第三世界的一般的强弱悬殊,颇有小说的意味。
There is something strange about Sri Lanka's 24-year ethnic war, a mismatch of high and low intensity, of first world and third, that almost savours of fiction.
考虑到其的个体数量十分庞大,并如著名昆虫学家e.o . Willson写的那样“有目的的团结性及社会体系”,不奇怪为什么蚂蚁才是真正的战争之王。
Given their massive populations and, as the famed entomologist E.O. Wilson writes, their "unity of purpose [and] social machinery," it's no surprise that ants are also bonafide masters of war.
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