A modern, glass-wrapped hotel rises behind the ruins of a war-ravaged building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

阿富汗首都喀布尔，一座现代气息浓厚的玻璃饭店在战后废墟中拔地而起。

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Nearly 80, 000 Americans are deployed in Afghanistan, Exum said, while 2.2 million played Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live during a single day last fall.

部署在阿富汗的有80,000美国人，Exum说，而去年秋天一天在Xbox Live上玩《现代战争2》的就多达220万。

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Pushtuns is a major nation of Afghanistan, who had established the Duranid dynasty of Afghanistan in modern history of Central Asia.

普什图民族也是阿富汗的主体民族，在近代中亚的历史上曾建立过盛极一时的阿富汗杜兰尼王朝。

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They are grouped around the city's most famous monument, the blue domed mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani - the 17th century ruler who founded modern Afghanistan.

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