A couple of hours, because typically there's just one battle; one side beats the other and that's the war for now.

几个小时,一般来说只有一次战斗,一方攻打另一方,这就是战争

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So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."

这就是维吉尔所写的：“我欣然乐意着笔于国王与战争“,“而辛西亚那之神“,即为阿波罗-“在我耳边低声警告我“

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Maybe it's the state of war that he talked about in his Second Treatise.

也许这就是《政府论》里谈到的战争状态。

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