Advanced US military capabilities have, it is generally agreed, substantially eroded the deterrent relationship that existed between the US and its nuclear competitors during the cold war.

人们普遍认为，美国先进的军事能力，实际上已经侵蚀了冷战时期美国及其核竞争国之间存在的核威慑关系。

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Friendship between us went through the rigorous trails of war.

我们之间的友情经过战火的残酷考验。

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During the US Civil War, the advent of winter saw an informal armistice between the Federal and Confederate armies.

美国内战期间，冬季来临，南北两军非正式休战。

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During the Cold War, relations between the US and Soviet Union were eased when Cliburn won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958, at the age of 23.

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And the danger in any of these regional disputes is that the US and Russia get sucked in and what began as a war between two neighbours goes global.

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In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.

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