Given my feelings about the war, I wasn't at all sure I'd ever make it in politics, but I was inclined to go back home to America and give it a chance.

考虑到我对战争的感觉，我心里根本没把握，不知自己能否真的在政界取得成功，但我还是更倾向于回到美国，试着投身政界，看结果如何。

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Our home was literally burned down by the flames of war, and so was the primary school which my grandfather built with his own hands.

战火烧毁了我的全家，包括爷爷亲手办得那座小学。

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In August 1946, on my fifth trip through China, bound for my Moscow home but not in haste, since my husband had died in the war, I came to Yanan.

1946年八月，我在回莫斯科家的途中，第五次路过中国；由于我丈夫已在战争中牺牲了，当时我并不急于回去，就到了延安。

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My grandfather marched off to Europe in World War II, while my grandmother worked in factories on the home front.

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My grandfather came home from that same war exhausted from the burdens he had borne and died the next day.

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She was asking me because, twice already, I too had waited for my husband to come home from a war first Afghanistan, then Iraq.

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