It was highly elevated above all other priorities and absort the lion share of effort and attention of the White House.

是压在所有其他首要任务之上的,在白宫人力物力方面,都占了很大的比重。

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They all died. And it was--not everybody, but in France 1,500,000 people died, and that's a huge demographic chunk, it's like a big shark took a big bite out of your basic pyramid of your demographic tree.

都死了,的确是,倒不是所有人,但是在法国有一百五十万人阵亡,这在人口比例中占很大一部分,就好像一个大鲨鱼照着,人口树的基底咬了一大口

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