Their armed forces were an ill-equipped, untrained and sometimes disreputable lot.

他们的武装力量装备差，未经训练，有时甚至声名狼藉。

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Armed with a lifetime of savings and with just one child, parents are only too willing to lend a hand — and sometimes twice.

手里拿着一生辛劳所得，又只有一个孩子，如今的父母过于热心帮孩子买套房子——有时甚至是两套。

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Armed with cell phones, social media, and sometimes just sheer determination, youth from North Africa to the Middle East are struggling to take ownership of their future.

凭着手机、社交网络和一往无前的决心，从北非到中东的年轻一代正力争掌握自己的未来。

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"In some sectors of the society, those without employment, without work, sometimes they have to join armed groups to earn a salary, to be able to survive, " Bohorquez said.

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During the day these checkpoints are lightly manned, sometimes by one young man armed with a wooden stick, or by a handful of young boys, their skinny limbs browned from the sun.

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Dr. Dlamini-Zuma recalled the objectives of PAWO and the pioneering spirit of African women who founded it, many of whom took part in national liberation movements and other political and armed struggles, sometimes even at the highest price of their lives.

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