1914年，很多人都认为战争能够在圣诞节前结束。但不幸的是，纵横交错的战壕被挖掘出来，残酷的现代欧洲战争的雏形形成了。

In 1914, many people thought the war would be over by Christmas, but sadly by then the trenches were dug and the future shape of the war in Europe was set.

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战争期间欧洲贸易的中断使经济陷入一片困境。

The disruption of European trade during the war had thrown the economy into a tailspin.

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卡梅伦先生的团队并不打算恢复约翰·梅杰在1996年的“牛肉战争”期间尝试的不作为政策，这是保守党在欧洲留下的另一个不愉快的记忆。

Mr. Cameron's team are not proposing to revive the non-coop policy that John Major tried during the "beef war" of 1996, another unhappy Tory European memory.

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And that this terrified elites in much of Europe and had the same equivalent of what the Fronde did for scaring elites in France.

就像是投石党运动吓坏了法国精英一样,宗教战争吓坏了欧洲许多国家的精英

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The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.

欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过

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