They said, no more new houses to be built, so everyone thought--in fact they were talking about World War III, they were really scared.

他们说,禁止新建住宅,因此当时人们都认为,要爆发第三次世界大战,人们都很害怕

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But once the financial crisis hit, things changed a little bit, and so there is more competition.

但一旦金融危机爆发了，情况稍微有所改变，因此竞争就会更激烈了。

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And any way, Hobbes, however, was deeply distressed by the outbreak of war, and he spent a great deal of time reflecting on the causes of war and political disorder.

无论如何，霍布斯对战争的爆发,感到深深地压抑，因此他花了大量的时间反思,战争爆发的原因和政治秩序。

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And so, what happens is that he goes to war in the summer of 1870, without any allies, against Prussia and its South German allies, and he thinks he's going to win.

因此,战争在一八七零年夏天爆发,法军孤立无援,单独对抗普鲁士及其南德诸邦盟友,他自认为必胜无疑

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