The general was as warmly received as if New York had been in a state of siege and no other general was to be got for love or money.

人们那么热情地接待将军，好像纽约城已经被敌人围困而无论怎样再也请不到一个将军似的。

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After six months of fighting and with five months of aerial support from NATO, the rebels had brought Colonel Qaddafi's capital into what was in effect a state of siege.

经过六个月的战斗和北约5个月来的空中支援，反对派把卡扎菲上校的首都变成了一座孤城。

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Which isn't to say that men aren't susceptible to disease, but I don't know that they live in a permanent state of health-siege like we do.

这并不是说男人不容易生病，但是我知道他们没有生活在一个如我们所愿的健康包围的永久状态。

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"The tiger is under a state of siege, " laments Ranjit Singh, head of the Tiger Conservation Program.

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