Like most Americans, Woodrow Wilson did not want war. He feared that entering the conflict would cost the United States many lives. Wilson read the reports from European battlefields.

和绝大多数美国人一样，威尔逊也不想让美国加入战争之中，他担心加入世界大战会使许多美国人失去生命。

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They don't want a war, but they don't want to lose face.

他们不想要战争，但他们也不想丢脸面。

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We want peace but not war.

我们要和平，不要战争。

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He did not want war. As he told a friend: "I fought in our Civil War.

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But I want to begin today with another passage, from the war years, and ask now from a Northern point of view, how do we get to Uriah Parmelee?

但是今天我要以另外一篇文章做开始,自开战那年,从北方角度来看,我们要如何理解乌利亚·帕米利

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They just got back from World War II, they didn't want another war, they wanted to live a normal life, they wanted to have kids, and then this terrible war was coming, they thought.

人们刚从二战战场返回祖国,无心恋战,只想享受平凡生活,养儿育女,结果又来了一场恶战

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We don't want war, poverty, fundamentalism, whether in an Islamic country or non-Islamic country.

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This is another reason why Kuwaiti liberals, reluctantly in many cases, want war.

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Syria's vice-president, Farouq al-Shara, joined the soothing chorus by reiterating that Syria does not want war, though he repeated his belief that Israel does.

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