Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.

农夫们成为这场消耗战的被人利用的棋子。

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The steady deterioration of the very climate of this very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing.

这个星球气候的持续恶化正在发展为一场至关重要的战争，不论以哪种标准衡量，美国都在输掉这场战争。

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Good examples of this approach in the UK are the Jorvik Centre in York; the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford; and the Imperial War Museum in London.

在英国，运用这种方法的经典例子有约克的 Jorvik 中心，位于布拉德福德的国家摄影电影电视博物馆，以及伦敦的帝国战争博物馆。

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But this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

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It's this kind of wealth that allow them to fight this long, hard war of independence, which they finally win.

这些所带来的财富,就成了他们为之奋斗的原动力,使得他们在艰苦的独立战争中获得胜利

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This is the natural condition, the state of nature, the state of war that Hobbes attributes to, again, the fundamental fact of human nature.

这是自然的状态，霍布斯把战争状态归因于，人类的基本天性。

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Plus I think people might be watching this war of words over the Strait of Hormuz.

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Our co-host, Michele Norris, is in Orangeburg, South Carolina, trying to understand how this war of words is playing there.

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Finally, now's as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the peripheral casualties from this war of attrition.

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