The love story unfolds against a background of civil war.

这爱情故事以内战为背景展开。

《牛津词典》

He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.

他正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The civil war claimed the life of a U.N. interpreter yesterday.

昨天内战夺走了一位联合国译员的生命。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He had been a teacher, a college president, and a general in the Union army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.

我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Hobbes was the tutor to a royal household who followed the King into exile during the English Civil War.

贺伯斯是一位皇室家庭的家教老师,该户人家于英国内战时,随着英皇流亡；

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.

NEWYORKER: Small Change

He said he thought Dr. Seuss, whose work served as a sort of blueprint in rhyme for the creation of a just post-World War II civil society, would have countenanced the occasion.

WSJ: Parsing the Fun in Life

Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.

BBC: Legendary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke at 80