Somalia is in the midst of a decades-long civil war, and though soda gets in via boat, the bottling plant is closed.

索马里在几十年的内战里，尽管苏打汽水通过船入境，但灌装基地紧闭着。

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After Somalia's collapse into civil war in 1991, some Somalis began to steal the odd small fishing boat.

在1991年内战致使索马里崩溃后，有些索马里人开始从事偷盗单只小型渔船的营生。

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Especially those hiding in buildings as bombs rain down, or being handed shaking with fear or cold into a boat to escape environmental disaster or war.

尤其是那些躲在位于枪林弹雨的建筑中、或者是那些怀着恐惧与寒冷不断颤抖、被塞进船里以逃离灾难和战争的孩子们。

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So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

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