正是这种财富使他们能够进行这场漫长而艰苦的独立战争，并最终取得胜利。

It's this kind of wealth that allows them to fight this long, hard War of Independence, which they finally win.

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那时他还无法想象“出一份力”到底意味着什么：利比亚战士们沿着海岸线发起一场场致命的战斗，北约战机则在上空强力打击卡扎菲武装，这是一场漫长而代价沉重的战争。

Little did he imagine what that "help" would entail: a long, grinding war in which Libyan fighters waged lethal battles along the coast while NATO bombers pummeled the country from above.

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然而，这只不过是一场漫长的，包括突然出现的指向其他基因专利的小型诉讼，及其自身上诉审在内的法律战争前哨战而已。

However, this ruling is merely the beginning of a lengthy legal battle, with similar suits likely to pop up around the country targeting other gene patents, and with an appeal in the works.

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Here's one, "It is clear that the emergence of the hoplite was only the beginning of a lengthy process which certainly lasted more than a century, and may have lasted more than two centuries, leading to the creation of a close ordered hoplites only phalanx.

他说道,"很显然重装步兵的出现,仅仅是漫长战争史的开端,持续了多达一个世纪,甚至可能超过两个世纪,漫长的战争造就了列阵严整的重步兵方阵

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