Since the 1st of January it has become more and more evident to my mind that the war is henceforth to be conducted upon a different basis.

自元旦以来,我越来越明白,至此,实际上战争,被触发的起点不同

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We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."

我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“

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