It represents the apogee of a decade of hard and often inglorious fighting by American troops, and a reorientation of the world's most formidable war machine.

它代表美军艰难但又不体面的十年战斗的顶峰，也标志这台世界上最令人生畏的战争机器的重新定位。

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Indeed, some call for a more dramatic and open-ended escalation of our war effort — one that would commit us to a nation-building project of up to a decade.

的确，有些人要求我们的军事行动升级，增加强度而且不设定期限——让我们承诺以长达十年的时间投入该国的重建。

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The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 housed about 5, 000 people during the Cold War but was abandoned over a decade ago after the Russian military withdrew from Latvia following the Soviet collapse.

过去冷战期间，约5 000人定居于这曾名为斯库纳达一号（Skrunda-1）的小镇；不过十多年前苏联解体后俄军撤离拉脱维亚，该镇也随之遭遇受人遗弃的命运。

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Sudan's elections were agreed to as part of a 2005 peace deal ending a two-decade-long civil war, during which an estimated two million people died.

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By the 1820s, already, within a decade of the War of 1812 and the opening of the frontier, cotton's future seemed limitless.

截至十九世纪二十年代,这其中包括了1812年开战的十年战争,以及边疆的开拓,棉花产业的未来似乎无限

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Fambul Tok has helped thousands of people in the war-battered south and east of Sierra Leone come to terms with what happened there over a decade of violent conflict.

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The Sacramento Kings have been fighting a facility war for over a decade to replace the archaic basketball arena that the team use to sellout regularly.

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Eurocrats talk apocalyptically of the consequences of a euro break-up (Poland's finance minister has suggested that a real war could erupt within a decade).

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And so the Strategic Partnership Agreement, this NATO Summit, are all part and parcel of a shared vision that we have in which Afghanistan is able to transition from decades of war to a transformational decade of peace and stability and development.

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