The director transposes the action from sixteenth-century France to post-Civil War America.

导演把情节从16世纪的法国转换到内战后的美国。

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"But if the United States takes unilateral action without proper multilateral consultations and agreement that could spark big trade disputes, a trade war even," he said.

“不过如果美国采取单边行动而没有适当的多边磋商和协议，这将会引起巨大的商务争端，甚至商务战争。”他认为。

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Florence Nightingale is known as a nurse, but she also made a new kind of pie chart showing how many soldiers in the Crimean war died from military action and how many from disease.

南丁格尔不仅做为一个护士为人所知，而且她也还创造性的用一种新的形式图表--饼图来显示多少人是牺牲在克里米亚战争的军事行动中，又有多少人是因为疾病而死。

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He had demanded strong action against them when the war ended.

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Those who demanded immediate action expected a short war.

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Jesse Owens died of lung cancer in 1980 and Luz Long was killed in action during World War II.

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The basic aesthetic looks more like the overblown drama of Gears of War 3 than the less bloated action of Gears of War 1.

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Successful action in the war of ideas requires that policymakers be able to harness the prodigious power of global public opinion.

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In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron, " was killed in action during World War I.

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