As the history of the 20th century shows, evidence of plunder that meets legal standards is hard to collect in the chaos of war, and against a background of even graver horrors.

20世纪的历史表明，战争期间局面混乱、而且可能发生更骇人听闻之事，故而难以搜集符合法律标准的劫掠证据。

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We must be more willing, not only to accept the prospect of limited war but, as Kissinger does in his book of a half century ago, to accept the prospect of a limited nuclear war between states.

我们不仅要接受有限战争的前景，而且更要有意愿接受基辛格半世纪前在书中提到的国与国之间有限核战争的前景。

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Lined with about a dozen 18th century homes, Little Green Street only stretches a city block in length, but has survived the Blitz in World War II and three centuries of construction.

街两边有十几家18世纪的房屋，小格林街仅有一个城市街区的长度，但却从二战的大规模空袭和三个世纪来的反复建设中幸存下来。

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The results of the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War made clear that the new century would have a new world power: the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.

我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学，我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。

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Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

It is also because, after a quarter of a century of ruinous war, Afghans are more willing to take help from any hand.

ECONOMIST: War in Afghanistan

There were then only a few thousand of them, and a century later war and disease had taken most of those.

ECONOMIST: America��s roots

With a half century of total war ending and something like peace breaking out politics loses its life-and-death drama.

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