大英博物馆的这次展览倾向于弱化墨西卡时期的暴虐统治：经常发动战争掠夺贡品和战俘，战俘被用来祭祀嗜血的神灵，他们帮助科尔特斯得到了盟友。

The British Museum tends to play down the more oppressive aspects of Mexica rule: their constant wars in search of tribute and of captives for sacrifice to bloodthirsty gods helped cortes gain Allies.

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如果用来比喻人类与战争的关系，“上瘾”显得那么的苍白无力，也有失准确，“寄生”要更加切中要害一些，甚至说成“掠夺”也不为过。

"Addiction" provides only a pallid and imprecise analogy for the human relationship to war; parasitism — or even predation — is more to the point.

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1864年，欧洲国家首次就战争期间掠夺问题谈判而达成日内瓦公约；1899年，自海牙会议始，又进行了一系列会议。 这些都对战胜者占有战利品提出了限制。

The Geneva Conventions, the first of which was negotiated by European nations in 1864, and a series of meetings that began in The Hague in 1899, also set limits on the victor’s right to claim spoils.

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