One of the Times’ insiders not only likens the squabble to “world war three” but also dubs it “the biggest ego battle in history”. So much for Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.

《泰晤士报》一名内部人士不仅将这两人的对抗比作“第三次世界大战”，并称之为“人类历史上最大的个人对抗”，甚至胜过凯撒大帝与安东尼之间的对抗。

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And ultimately I concluded, in the War of the World, that three factors made the location and timing of lethal organized violence more or less predictable in the last century.

最终我在《星际战争》一书中得出结论，有三个因素可以或多或少地预见上世纪有组织的危害性暴力行为发生的地点和时间。

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Lined with about a dozen 18th century homes, Little Green Street only stretches a city block in length, but has survived the Blitz in World War II and three centuries of construction.

街两边有十几家18世纪的房屋，小格林街仅有一个城市街区的长度，但却从二战的大规模空袭和三个世纪来的反复建设中幸存下来。

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President Truman and his military advisers were concerned World War Three would start.

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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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So,if you take number one--but we don't have to go through them all and I assure you we won't--if you take number one, the Ain,a-i-n,it's named after a river; or if you take number two,the Aisne,a-i-s-n-e, it's named after a river; and how many hundreds of thousands of people died along there in World War One or,you take number three,the same thing,Allier.

如果你看第一个省,我向你们保证,我们不用挨个了解,看第一个省,安省,a-i-n,来自一条河的名字,或是第二个埃纳省,a-i-s-n-e,来自于一条河的名字,有成千上万的人在这里死于,第一次世界大战,第三个,阿列省

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Great minds like Kennan and Oppenheimer helped win the Cold War and prevent World War Three altogether.

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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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Then during the Second World War, he survived more than three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

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