联军的正式损失数字，说得温和一点，是“落后于”实际数字。

The official coalition losses are, to put it mildly, "falling behind" the actual figures.

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自从两个国家仅仅是在三年前才开始进行的核试验以来，二者之间拖延了数月的对抗——说得温和一点——就是一个令人担忧的问题。

Since both countries had tested nuclear weapons only three years earlier, the confrontation, which dragged on for months, was, to put it mildly, an alarming one.

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