Groves replied that any general who won five major battles in a row might be called great, and that about three in every hundred would qualify.

格罗夫斯答道，能连续5次赢得战役的将军才称得上“伟大”，不过每一百个人中只有3个人能得此殊荣。

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When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.

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