Babies who were in the uterus during the 1944 Dutch famine of World War II did worse on mental tests than those of similar ages even 60 years later.

1944年二战荷兰饥荒期间仍在子宫中的婴儿，在智力测试中的表现比同龄人差，哪怕出生后60多年也一样。

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For better or worse, phrases such "the Cold War" and "the clash of civilizations" matter.

不论是好是坏，诸如“冷战”、“文化冲突”这类的词语总起着重要作用。

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Tens of millions of the people who live downstream of the dam would be endangered by overflow, or worse yet, the one-in-one-thousand chance of a dam collapse due to war, earthquake or design flaws.

下游数千万的居民就会生活在过分泄洪的危险之中，假如有那么千分之一的几率，大坝由于战争，地震或者设计缺陷而溃坝，他们的处境就会变得更加危险。

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They have seen worse war and lawlessness than this, and they have seen earlier predictions of catastrophe confounded by the Afghans' resilience.

ECONOMIST: The race to get food into Afghanistan before winter is on

But clearly lifestyles got worse during the war: so was it an absence of economic growth?

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The situation is even worse among the war-affected people of northern Uganda, including Arua district.

UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)