The country is being torn to pieces by conflict between fundamentalists and secularists.

原教旨主义者和世俗主义者的冲突使这个国家支离破碎。

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Now in the window itself the pieces of glass would be held together by strips of lead.

现在在窗户里，玻璃碎片会被铅条固定在一起。

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During Bartók's youth, the music played in the concert halls of Austria-Hungary was dominated by Romantic pieces by mostly German composers.

在巴托克的青年时期，在奥匈帝国音乐厅里演奏的音乐以德国作曲家谱写的浪漫主义作品为主。

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The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.

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If you have a set of blocks, mechanical, physical blocks,and I tell you to build something and I say, oh, by the way, you have to cut the blocks in smaller pieces, you are going to get angry, aren't you?

如果你要一个区块，力学的，物理区块，我告诉你要去建造东西,我说，顺便说一下，你必须将一整区块切成小块，你会生气，不会吗？

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And the way that India healers did this was by putting pieces of this in your nose, or injecting it under your skin.

印度医疗者的方法是,把这些磨碎的东西放进你的鼻子里,或者注射进皮肤里

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More than a dozen other graves were also interfered with by having the pieces of York Stone used to top them off removed.

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The artist took a risk by offering the 223 pieces of new work directly through Sotheby's rather than a gallery, but Hirst said it was a more democratic way to sell art.

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But the agencies are growing weary with picking up the pieces left by the country's war, and some are voicing their frustrations in public.

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