During the second world war he served with 92nd Airborne.
第二次世界大战期间，他在第92空降师服役。
Bob Huff voted for a bill that would have pressed schools to teach pupils more about Filipinos' role in the second world war.
鲍勃·哈夫，赞同通过一项法案来给学校施压，让学校给学生讲授菲律宾人在二战中扮演的角色。
Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.
自二次世界大战以来，2008年后半年见证了最为惨重的机动车辆需求紧缩。上周公布的数据证实了这一点。
The catastrophe of the second world war, and decades of living with limited sovereignty, taught the Germans the virtues of soft power and multilateralism.
第二次世界大战的灾难，加之国家在几十年间被限制主权，教会了德国人崇尚软权力与多元主义的价值。
We hired a second world war Catalina seaplane, one of just three operating in the world, and had to bring in a fire-fighting pilot from Canada to fly it.
我们租了一架二战时期的水上飞机（世界上还在使用的三架这类飞机中的一架），我们还必须从加拿大请来一名消防飞行员来驾驶它。
In most rich countries the baby-boomers born after the second world war were more numerous, better educated and better paid than any generation before them.
在大部分富裕国家，出生于二战后生育高峰期(婴儿潮)的人很多，同他们的任何前辈相比，他们受过更好的教育，并拥有更多的收入。
One notable feature of the list of artists is that it veers heavily towards the modern and contemporary, from the second world war almost to the present day.
这批作品入选的艺术家们均有着一个显著特点，他们主要是二战后至今的现代艺术家或当代艺术家。
To say that this is the greatest emergency Japan has faced since the second world war - as the prime minister, Naoto Kan, said on Monday - is no exaggeration.
日本首相菅直人(NaotoKan)周一说道，可以毫不夸张地说，这是自二战以来日本所面对的最紧急情况。
Olli Rehn, who is in charge of economic and monetary affairs at the European Commission, said the crisis was the worst in Europe since the second world war.
负责欧盟经济与货币事务的OlliRehn指出这场金融危机是自二战以来欧洲所经历的最严重的一次。
But retirement ages were actually higher after the second world war than they are now, and edged down to a low point around 1990, before starting to rise again.
但是实际上目前退休年龄是低于二战后的，战后退休年龄缓慢下调，于1990年左右渐落至最低点，随后便又开始升高。
The man who became Japan's leader this week is, at 52, the country's youngest prime minister since the second world war, and the first to have been born after it.
本周成为日本领导人的那个人只有52岁，是该国二战后最年轻的首相，也是首位二战后出生的首相。
During the second world war, the stewards of America's war effort turned to the Cowles Commission, an economics brain-trust, to help them ration America's resources.
二战期间，美国战事后勤人员曾求助作为其经济智囊的考列斯委员会来帮助他们分配美国的战地物资。
The economy has enjoyed five years of continuous growth since then—technically the longest boom since the second world war. But it is still haunted by falling prices.
此后五年间经济虽然持续上升――严格的说是自二战后最长时间的增长，但经济始终饱受物价下跌之苦。
Michael Gibbert, of Italy's Bocconi University, notes that the West also has a long tradition of inventiveness in hard times, demonstrated during the second world war.
意大利博科尼大学的迈克尔·吉博特(Michael Gibbert)注意到，长久以来，西方国家在困难时期也有革新进取的传统，从他们二次大战期间表现即可见得。
Mr Cameron's party needs to break out of its southern heartlands to win at least 117 seats - its biggest total since the second world war - to secure a working majority.
保守党需要在英国南部的票仓以外地区赢得至少117个座位，才能获得有效的多数地位——这一数字将是二战以来该党面临的最高门槛。
Mochtar Riady established the family fortune after the second world war, first as a bicycle trader, then by buying a bank, then by founding the Lippo Group, a conglomerate.
李文正（印尼名字，Mochtar Riady）在第二次世界大战之后积累下了这份家族财富，起初是靠做自行车生意，后来买下了一家银行，再后来建立了企业集团，即力宝集团（LippoGroup）。
For almost three decades after the second world war these advisers seemed to know what they were doing, guided by an apparent trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
二战后近三十年来，这些顾问以通胀和失业率的权衡比较作为目标，他们似乎清楚自己的所作所为。
Early in the second world war, Britain took its time to let America into the secrets of Ultra, the decryption of German secret communications by code-breakers at Bletchley Park.
第二次世界大战的早期，英国花时间让美国获知了Ultra的机密，这是电码译者在BletchleyPark破译的德国机密通信的译码。
Before the second world war, marriages between blacks and whites were outlawed not only in the south but also in nearly every non-southern state with a sizeable black population.
在二战之前，黑人和白人通婚无论是在南部地区，还是在拥有相当数量黑人的非南部各州都是不合法的。
In London st Paul's cathedral shut its doors to visitors for the first time since the second world war, as activists refused to move their campsite from the cathedral's precincts.
由于活动分子拒绝将其帐篷从教堂周围挪走，伦敦圣保罗大教堂自二战以后首次对游人关闭。
The word came from the second world war, describing the smoke from German anti-aircraft shells, and hence the puffed-up information or exaggerated shows Mr Safire and his sort provided.
该词来自第二次世界大战，本是描述德军防空炮弹爆炸时产生的浓烟，后来就转指赛菲尔先生和其公关业同行所提供的自吹自擂的信息或夸张的表演。
In New York during the second world war, it appears the opposite plan was in effect: in 1943 3,662 soldiers reported that they had contracted some form of venereal disease in the city.
看起来二战期间的纽约却截然相反：1943年，有3662名纽约的士兵报告他们感染了某种形式的性传播疾病。
Japanese history books sometimes disagree with those of its neighbours, and Japan's apologies for its treatment of them during the second world war have not fully allayed their suspicions.
日本历史教科书中的部分内容有悖邻国们的观点，而日本为其在二战期间于邻国的所作所为作出的道歉也没能完全消除邻国对它的猜疑。
He was, concludes Niall Ferguson, the first biographer to be given access to Warburg's private papers, the “presiding genius” of the City for more than 30 years after the second world war.
尼尔•弗格森，这个首位获权查阅华宝私人文件的传记作家，将华宝概括为二战后30年来这座城市的“天才指挥”。
He was, concludes Niall Ferguson, the first biographer to be given access to Warburg's private papers, the “presiding genius” of the City for more than 30 years after the second world war.
尼尔•弗格森，这个首位获权查阅华宝私人文件的传记作家，将华宝概括为二战后30年来这座城市的“天才指挥”。
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