It is the stress of a people living in a city under siege.

这是生活在围城中的人们所承受的压力。

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Published in Britain as "Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44" by Bloomsbury;

英国花葬出版社即将以《列宁格勒：一个城市被围困下的悲剧，1941—44年》出版；

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The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.

仅存锡安城(城原文作女子)，好像葡萄园的草棚，瓜田的茅屋，被围困的城邑。

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There is very little traffic on the road and correspondents say in many ways, Peshawar is starting to feel like a city under siege.

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Activists in Qusayr said the city was under siege Sunday from several directions.

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General Galic is accused of commanding Serb troops who held the city of Sarajevo under siege for three-and-a-half years from April 1992.

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