南北双方形成了剑拔弩张的紧张局势。

The North and South were at loggerheads.

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中方如何看待南北双方的接触？

How does China look at their contact?

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这场战斗令人担忧苏丹南北双方可能重开内战。

The fighting renewed fears that the two sides could slide back into a civil war.

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First of all, it's worth remembering there are a lot of clear, undeniable similarities of all kinds, things you can measure, between South and North in the 40 years before the Civil War.

首先,值得记住的是有很多明显的,不可否认的共同点,各种各样的共同点,你在对比,内战发生前四十年里的南北双方时就能发现

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