It doesn't sound right when other men are out there dying, so they raised taxes during World War One.

在有人战死沙场的时候,发战争财是件龌龊的事情，所以他们在第一次世界大战时这么做了。

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Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

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It has often been pointed out that in the past 4000 years more wars have been fought for the possession of the tiny strip of land known as Canaan, or the land of Israel, or Palestine, than have been fought for almost any other area in the world.

很多人指出，在过去的4000多年中,为了占领这一小块土地，有过多次战争,这块叫迦南，或以色列或巴勒斯坦的土地，这些战争远多于世界其他地区。

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