Under all established norms and laws of war (and by most accounts under Islamic law,too) the deliberate targeting of civilians for no direct military purpose is just a crime.

在所有现行的战争法及相关规则之下，不带明确的军事目的而直接杀伤平民，这就是犯罪。

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But Pyongyang has said any attempt to shoot down its "for peaceful purpose" satellite would be an act of war and has warned it would quit the stalled six-party aid-for-nuclear-disarmament talks.

然而平壤方面宣布，任何尝试去击落基于“和平目的”卫星的举动将被视为战争行为，并警告会退出致力于核裁军的六方会谈。

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Given their massive populations and, as the famed entomologist E.O. Wilson writes, their "unity of purpose [and] social machinery," it's no surprise that ants are also bonafide masters of war.

考虑到其的个体数量十分庞大，并如著名昆虫学家e.o . Willson写的那样“有目的的团结性及社会体系”，不奇怪为什么蚂蚁才是真正的战争之王。

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He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

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he tells us the purpose of the best regime the purpose of Aristotle's Republic is directed not to war but in fact to peace.

他告诉我们最佳政体的目的,亚里士多德眼中《理想国》的著作目的,并非战争,而是和平。

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The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

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The main purpose of international laws of war is to punish the evil and protect the innocent.

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And most of all, after a decade of passionate debate, we must recapture the common purpose that we shared at the beginning of this time of war.

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