Squinting through a hole in the sandbagged wall of a bombed-out building, Dino points to where the couple lie mouldering amid the debris of Bosnia's 14-month civil war.

迪诺眯着眼，透过垒在被炸毁建筑物上沙袋墙中的小孔，用手指着这对情侣躺的地方。那是波斯尼亚14个月的内战留下的一片废墟。

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There's a striking moment at the start of Thucydides' "Peloponnesian War" when he surveys Greek history up to then. The striking part is, it only lasts a couple of pages.

当修昔底德在《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的开篇纵览直到那时为止的希腊历史时，有一个引人注目之处，即它仅仅花了一两页的篇幅。

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There will be no war in a couple of years uh..If you look at the stimulus package, the one thing it is not done is stimulating.

未来几年将不会有发战争财的机会,呃，如果你看刺激计划，它没有做到的一件事情就是刺激市场。

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Absolute destitution and the ravages of war were thick in the air, and the couple blamed the United States, which had just implemented sanctions against the Taliban.

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