As remarkable an architectural and engineering achievement the Wall is, it is not possible to forget it was not built for show. It was a functioning weapon of war.

当我们在为这个伟大的建筑和工程成就而感慨万千的时候，却不可能忘记这个伟大的建筑物不是用来观赏的，它可是用于战争中的一个武器。

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It would be far better to think of war as something external to ourselves, something which has to be uprooted, everywhere, down to the last weapon and bellicose pageant.

把战争看作是不属于我们的东西，是必须根除的东西，让它无处藏身，直到最后一件武器，直到争斗的最后一场上演，相比之下这样要做要有用得多得多。

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These days, antibiotics are a major weapon in medicine's war on disease, used to treat everything from life-threatening infections like meningitis to more run-of-the-mill ear infections.

近年来，抗生素一直是医学界对抗疾病的主要武器，从危害人体生命的脑膜炎到平常的中耳炎，到处都可以发现它的身影。

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But rape has been used as a weapon of war in the Balkans, Burma and Sri Lanka.

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The Norwegian center is very concerned about victims of rape as a weapon of war, he said.

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Gen Ntaganda faces 10 counts of conscripting child soldiers, murder, terrorising communities and using rape as a weapon of war.

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In the UK's Guardian , Peter Tatchell describes how rape is used as a weapon of war in the killing fields of Darfur.

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