With the scarcity of metal toward the end of World War II, Project Habbakuk was an attempt to create aircraft carriers out of pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp.

由于在二战末期金属缺乏，哈巴库克项目做了个尝试，用冰和木浆的混合物制造航空母舰。

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This much is true: the existence of a state of war tends to divorce gold from its credit structure and make the physical metal the only ultimate reality.

这一点千真万确：战争状态的存在容易将黄金与其信贷结构相分离，使实体黄金成为唯一的终极追求目标。

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Thirty years before his half-brilliant Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket, the 28-year-old Kubrick made this most merciless and clinical of antiwar war movies.

三十年前，库布里克在28岁拍摄的越战影片《全金属外壳》立刻成为反战片中最为无情的一部作品。

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This is a town that was founded during World War II to supply metal for planes, for guns, for the arsenal of democracy that freed the world from tyranny.

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Labour's Lord Faulkner of Worcester focused on metal theft from war memorials, describing the situation as "almost out of control".

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For the British, certainly, this war is as much about heavy metal fighting as it is about winning hearts and minds.

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