一年后，即1944年，他的喷火战机(二战中的英国空军战斗机型号之一，译注)在意大利被击落，因此他进行了五个月的游击活动，最后成功脱险。

A year later, in 1944, his Spitfire had been shot down over Italy. After five months with partisans, he had made a dashing journey to safety.

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当英国在二战中成为净债务人和净借入者时，英镑也丧失了其作为主要全球储备货币的地位，英国就此沦落。

The British Empire declined - and the pound lost its status as the main global reserve currency - when Britain became a net debtor and a net borrower in World War II.

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当然，这个概率在二战以后，英国的12任首相中较低，12人中只有2个人是左撇子：丘吉尔和卡拉汉。

Certainly, the prevalence has been lower among the 12 postwar British prime ministers; only two of them, Churchill and Callaghan, were left-handed.

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