南北双方形成了剑拔弩张的紧张局势。

The North and South were at loggerheads.

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剑拔弩张的关系会因为报复行动而轻易升级。

Tension could easily rise because of retaliatory actions.

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但在周一的法庭上双方依然维持着剑拔弩张的态势。

But the sides remained at loggerheads during a status conference in court Monday.

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Their tensions with westernizers would last right through Russian intellectual history in the nineteenth century.

他们与西化派之间剑拔弩张的气氛,在俄国思想史上持续了整个十九世纪

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