无论战争是如何产生的，是何时开始出现的，它如同趴在活生生的猎物脖子上的野兽，以其可怕的韧性支撑着自己，繁衍传播着自己，吸食着我们人类的汗水和血液。

However and whenever war began, it has persisted and propagated itself with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey, feeding on human effort and blood.

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游戏后的经验会使你感恺在阿富汗的人（美军）是有何等的胆量，因为那是个可怕的经验但也反映了战争的恐怖之处。

The experience you come out of it with is an appreciation of what absolutely massive balls the guys in Afghanistan must have, because it's a frightening experience but also shows how horrific war is.

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林肯表达了对在流血战争中死去的年轻人的尊重，并且告诉世界为什么会发生这么可怕的战争，为什么战争是如此的重要。

President Lincoln honored the young men who had died on that bloody battlefield. He also told the world why the terrible war was being fought and why it was so important.

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So, you can see the whole period till 1945 is an even more horrible thirty years war than that of the seventeenth century.

你可以看出来这段时间一直到1945年,和十七世纪相比之下,是一个更可怕的"三十年战争"

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