By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

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There are only three people left in Britain who fought in World War One, only three, and they're about 110-years-old or something like that.

在英国,一战老兵,只剩下三个了,就三个,他们得有,大概110岁

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Huge, and one of the things that I argue in this book and also in the Princeton Projiect on National Security which I co-directed with John Ikenberry over the last three years is we have been singel-mindedly focused on the war on terror.

很大，我在这本书中试图说明一点,在普林斯顿国家安全项目中也试着强调,这一项目在过去3年内由我和约翰伊肯伯里共同负责,那就是我们仅仅盯在了一点上,我们盯着恐怖主义战争不放。

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Three years later war broke out and he was stuck with soldiering until it ended in 1945.

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If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.

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Three years after the war began, the U.S. military has learned hard lessons in Iraq.

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