真正的黄金标准—金币作为法定货币可以自由流通---诞生于1717年并且持续了200余年直到拿破仑发起战争才终止。

The true gold standard, in which gold coins circulated freely as legal tender, was started in Britain in 1717 and lasted for just under 200 years, interrupted only during the Napoleonic wars.

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2005年签署的和平协议终止了北部苏丹与南部苏丹的一场战争，那持续了50年的血腥战争残杀了二百万苏丹人民，而多于四百万的人民流离失所。

That deal ended a war between north and south Sudan that had bloodily sputtered on and off for 50 years, killing some 2m Sudanese and displacing 4m more.

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自1985年以来，55个国家已经终止了死刑，或者，此前已限制其适用于“特殊”罪行(诸如战争期间所犯罪行)，而目前则已完全禁止死刑。

Since 1985, 55 countries have ended the death penalty or, having already limited it to "extraordinary" crimes (such as those committed in wartime), have now banned it outright.

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Far more unrealistic would be the belief of those who argue, and I'm thinking here of names like Immanuel Kant and others from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, that one day we can abolish war altogether, and therefore abolish the passions that give rise to conflict and war.

不切实际,将是那些争辩者的信念，就像康德或其它,十八及十九世纪的思想家，幻想有一天我们可以全面终止战争，进而废除,引起冲突与战争的激情。

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