They endured five years of privation during the World War II.

在第二次世界大战期间，他们忍受了五年的贫困生活。

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Babies who were in the uterus during the 1944 Dutch famine of World War II did worse on mental tests than those of similar ages even 60 years later.

1944年二战荷兰饥荒期间仍在子宫中的婴儿，在智力测试中的表现比同龄人差，哪怕出生后60多年也一样。

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The son of a bankrupt bookseller, he had gone to work as a house-painter at eighteen, and then served three years in France and India during the war.

他父亲是个破了产的书商，他十八岁就工作了，当房屋油漆工，然后打仗时，去法国和印度服役三年，之后又在那里待了几年。

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During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

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The country is just seven years removed from 27 years of civil war during which the United States backed rebels fighting President Dos Santos.

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"This kind of thing" included the incarceration of 1,800 Japanese,1,500 Germans, as well as smaller numbers of Italians and other Europeans at Fort Lincoln during the war years, under the Alien Enemy Control Program.

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Indeed, Vietnam's culinary renaissance is helping to revive traditions lost during the years of war, famine and repression.

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It was my destiny to witness over many events in our region during the years of war and peace.

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If the Titanic is a vehicle for working out our cultural anxieties, the 1953 film makes it clear that one of those, during the first years of the Cold War, was the question of who the good guys were.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable