Her family was given safe conduct to the US when civil war broke out.

当内战爆发时，她的家庭得到了去美国的通行证。

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WHEN civil war began in China in 1946, I was in the United States, trying like so many other people to put in order a life that had been uprooted by many years of war.

1946年中国爆发内战时，我正在关国，像很多人那样正想把被多年的战争彻底打乱了的生活安顿一下。

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Gellhorn may have broken new ground when she filed her first report on the Spanish Civil War.

当盖尔霍恩把她关于西班牙内战的第一份报道发送出去时，她也许已经开辟了新天地。

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She said what surprises them most is when she states firmly that the Civil War was,in fact, about the fight over slavery.

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It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

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That could be an epigraph on this course, if you like, because in the end when this Civil War will finally come both sides will say over and over and over again that they are only fighting for liberty.

你愿意的话,也可以把这两个词记下来,因为在最后,当内战最终打响的时候,双方都会一遍又一遍地重申,他们只是为了自由而战

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Clarke's "ideas" began taking shape when - as a civil servant before the war - he started writing tales about outer space.

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So, the idea of growing up to be president some day was implanted in my head, and it became the source of great consternation for me when, in grad school in the late '60s as civil rights, feminist and anti-Vietnam War ferment was swelling, I ratified my own commitment to social justice by openly claiming my gay identity.

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His impeachment came when he sacked his secretary of war, in defiance of the view of the Republican-controlled Senate that civil officers could be removed only with the Senate's approval.

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