It was the defining experience of the twentieth century, and the violence of the war continues into the 1920s and '30s.

这是20世纪人们所具有的共同经历,战争的暴力持续到1920年代和30年代

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By the 1820s, already, within a decade of the War of 1812 and the opening of the frontier, cotton's future seemed limitless.

截至十九世纪二十年代,这其中包括了1812年开战的十年战争,以及边疆的开拓,棉花产业的未来似乎无限

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Students and most of their professors are on the barricades, that is to say in protest not only against the war in Vietnam but the outpouring of various forms of authoritative resistance to protest that characterized the sixties.

学生和大多数教授在抗议，不仅仅是反抗越南战争,更是一种对典型的六十年代各种形式的,作者权威的反抗。

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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