The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

If you look at the history of U.S. Taxes, the very simple history is World War One and World War Two.

如果你看一下美国税收历史，里面提到了一个典型的时期,就是一次世界大战和二次世界大战的时候。

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set in World War Two, so a very big moment in our history, so.

以二战为背景，这是我们历史上非常重要的时刻。

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Military history experts continue to study General MacArthur's decisions during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

- Those of you with backgrounds in history or we've seen -- or remember World War II with technologies that were used in it might know of the Enigma machine, which is kind of the same idea.

你们其中有历史背景的人或者我们看到的-,或记得起的第二次世界大战中使用的,可能知道的英格玛装置，那是一种同样的思想。

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Today the war is the second longest in American history, after Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

The fourth is war, and we got peace movements in American history and anti-war fervor and ferment, of all kinds, for a very long time.

第四点是战争,我们美国历史上的和平运动,酝酿的反战情绪,诸此种种,由来已久了

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The definitive history of the Cold War's end clearly has yet to be written.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Now, the Greeks were not unique in history in constantly being at war.

希腊人在历史中,并非唯一频繁遭受战火的民族

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And today's transition is further proof that those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

You can see that residential investment, as a fraction of GDP, has been very variable through history of the United States since World War II and that it's had a strong relationship with recessions.

住宅投资要计入,国内生产总值,纵观美国自二战以来,这部分投资,变动很大,而且与衰退存在着密切关联

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His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

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So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.

这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中

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So we may live, in your lifetime, to a time when this burden of Southern history may get all but lifted altogether from Southerners, unless we don't forget the Civil War.

也许我们,在有生之年,不会看到这段历史给南方造成的阴影,完全消散,除非我们将内战遗忘

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