大英博物馆的这次展览倾向于弱化墨西卡时期的暴虐统治：经常发动战争掠夺贡品和战俘，战俘被用来祭祀嗜血的神灵，他们帮助科尔特斯得到了盟友。
The British Museum tends to play down the more oppressive aspects of Mexica rule: their constant wars in search of tribute and of captives for sacrifice to bloodthirsty gods helped cortes gain Allies.
如果用来比喻人类与战争的关系，“上瘾”显得那么的苍白无力，也有失准确，“寄生”要更加切中要害一些，甚至说成“掠夺”也不为过。
"Addiction" provides only a pallid and imprecise analogy for the human relationship to war; parasitism — or even predation — is more to the point.
1864年，欧洲国家首次就战争期间掠夺问题谈判而达成日内瓦公约；1899年，自海牙会议始，又进行了一系列会议。 这些都对战胜者占有战利品提出了限制。
The Geneva Conventions, the first of which was negotiated by European nations in 1864, and a series of meetings that began in The Hague in 1899, also set limits on the victor’s right to claim spoils.
1707年波尔多红酒交易的供应商和不少其他商人声称他们运送的酒在战争中被英国战船掠夺，但事实很可能并非如此。
The vendors in the 1707 sales, and many others, claimed that their supplies were captured by British ships in the fighting; but they probably weren’t.
卡尔·伊坎的加入使得争夺艾克隆公司的战争更加惨烈。卡尔·伊坎是擅长掠夺式收购的传奇人物，他掌控着该公司的一部分股份，并出任公司董事长。
The tussle over ImClone has been an altogether messier affair, thanks to Carl Icahn, a legendary corporate raider who owns a stake and is chairman of the firm.
而德国的战争，英法的战争，则都是非正义的、掠夺的、帝国主义的战争，是压迫他国民族、压迫他国人民的战争。
On the other hand, the war being waged by Germany and by Britain and France is an unjust, predatory and imperialist war for the oppression of other nations and peoples.
评价：没有战乱纷争，这些照片仿佛是战争中的一个停顿，它在质疑这场战争的合理性，它是对人精神的摧残，更不要说它那无情地对生命的掠夺。
Instead his images seem to ask: What is the point of this war, and is it worth the toll on our spirit, not to mention the loss of so much life?
这就是表明，苏联的战争是正义的、非掠夺的、谋解放的战争，是援助弱小民族解放、援助人民解放的战争。
This shows clearly that the Soviet Union's war is a just and non-predatory war of liberation, a war helping to liberate weak and small nations and free the people.
这就是表明，苏联的战争是正义的、非掠夺的、谋解放的战争，是援助弱小民族解放、援助人民解放的战争。
This shows clearly that the Soviet Union's war is a just and non-predatory war of liberation, a war helping to liberate weak and small nations and free the people.
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