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.
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。
It has been shown by history that on the Middle Eastissue, biased and short-sighted mediation would only escalate tension, harm mutual trust, trigger confrontation and lead to endless troubles.
历史表明，在中东问题上，任何偏袒和短视的调解行动只会加剧矛盾，有害互信，引发对抗，后患无穷。
And a confrontation over spending would only highlight the fact that Republicans won big last year largely by promising to protect Medicare, then promptly voted to dismantle the program.
在开支问题上出现的对抗只会说明这样一个事实：去年共和党主要通过承诺保护“老年医保”计划而赢得去年的中期选举，获胜后却立即要投票肢解这项计划。
For months, the Justice Department and Apple have been trading heated rhetoric and lurching toward this very confrontation, only to back away.
几个月里，司法部和苹果公司一直在用激烈的言辞相互指责，并在摇摆中逐渐走向今天这样的对抗，不过后来又各自退后。
When he related this story to me, he said that he was not only shocked by the unexpected confrontation with the snake, but that he was just as shocked by his daughter's reaction.
当他告诉我这个故事时，他说他不但被突然出现的蛇吓坏了，而且他被他女儿的举动吓坏了。
When he related this story to me, he said that he was not only shocked by the unexpected confrontation with the snake, but that he was just as shocked by his daughter's reaction.
当他告诉我这个故事时，他说他不但被突然出现的蛇吓坏了，而且他被他女儿的举动吓坏了。
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