Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.

虽然战争在即，人们照常忙着自己的事。

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The Israelis have been crying wolf over Iran’s nuclear plans for years, and nothing has happened. But that does not mean that the threat of war can be ignored.

伊朗多年来一直隐瞒着自己的核计划，也没出过什么事，但这并不意味着世界并没有就此遭到威胁。

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The Israelis have been crying wolf over Iran's nuclear plans for years, and nothing has happened. But that does not mean that the threat of war can be ignored.

伊朗多年来一直隐瞒着自己的核计划，也没出过什么事，但这并不意味着世界并没有就此遭到威胁。

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The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

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And political leaders have represented this to their people as so it were a humanitarian effort which it is But they have not made clear to the people that they are fighting a war, they are fighting a war because of threat to them as well.

政府人员说这是一个人道主义的策略,但是他们并没有说明他们在进行一场战争，因为阿富汗对他们有威胁。

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Throughout most of the eighteen fifties, war was a continual threat between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.

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Governments across the globe have blamed war and the threat of war for poor economic performance.

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Would the threat of war have been less or more over the intervening period?

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If war and the threat of war are hardly even options, what can the world do?

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