He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War.

他以列兵身份参加了墨西哥战争。

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Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war.

除了在收获季节，当自我保护需要暂时休战时，帕尔比部落总是进行私下或公开的战争。

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For the latest study he had 14 volunteers watch either a stressful 20 minute clip of the war film Saving Private Ryan or an extract from a comedy or stand up routine.

在最新的研究中，他让14位志愿者有的观看战争大片《拯救大兵雷恩》20分钟的紧张片段，有的观看一小段单人表演的喜剧节目。

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"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.

BBC: Doctors and nurses

The man who reigns over centuries of elitism and grandeur at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London wears a plain, unpretentious pair of cuff links that belonged to his grandfather a hard-working Liverpool docker who went off to war in 1914 as a humble private.

WSJ: Where True Value Lies

What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.

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