那种和平看起来常常像是投入新一轮战争前的短暂停火期。

That peace often looked like a brief truce before the next plunge into war.

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在1761年独立战争前的一次演说中，詹姆士士·欧提斯留下卜句名言一“男人的家是他的城堡”。

In a pre-Revolutionary War speech in 1761, James Otis made the famous remark that "a man's home is his castle". Americans like their castle to be as comfortable as possible.

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在南北战争前的那些年，意大利人约瑟夫·圣蒂尼经营着新奥尔良最高档的酒吧，并在这一过程中发明了著名的白兰地克鲁斯塔。

In the years before the Civil War, Joseph Santini, an Italian, ran the fanciest bar in New Orleans, inventing the famous Brandy Crusta in the process.

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III Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

那边一个女仆和她的同伴,走进来低语：,在故事结束前战争会没入夜色中。

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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