small war

To declare war against the small island state looks like the action of a cowardly nation.

向一个小小的岛国宣战,看来像是一个怯懦国家的行为.

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Saving Private Ryan Set in World War II during the invasion of Normandy, the film follows Captain John H. Miller who takes a small group of soldiers behind enemy lines. Their mission is to retrieve a private whose three brothers have all been killed in action.

拯救大兵瑞恩故事设定在二战末期诺曼底登陆期间。影片讲述了约翰H米勒上校带领着一小队士兵深入敌后，他们的任务是找回一位在行动中失去了三个兄弟的士兵。

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Both sides say this is more than just a turf war between big and small banks.

双方都称这不仅仅是大小银行争地盘这么简单的问题。

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The essence and characteristic of Pan-Slavism was fully showed in the War between Russia and Turkey in 1877-1878.The egoism of big-nationality and small-nationality could take in everything in a glance in this war.

泛斯拉夫主义的本质与性状在1877&1878年俄土战争中，得到充分的展示。大民族与小民族的利己主义，在这场战争中可一览无余。

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Graham Lane, a65-year-old electrician in Worcester, UK, kept enough weapons in his modest home to start a real small war.

现年65岁的电工格拉汉姆莱恩住在英国伍斯特郡，在他本不富裕的家里竟然藏有很多武器，足以发动一场小型战争。

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Although you'd think business would have boomed during the war, there was only a small spike in interest.

人们会认为战争期间生意会很红火，但实际上利息只有小幅上升。

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Prisoners of war ( POWs) and those missing in action represent only a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who went missing in the Iran-Iraq war.

活着的战俘和失踪者指出，在两伊战争中百十万人中只有一小部分人失踪了。

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The French Foreign Legion was founded by a Royal Ordinance, written on a small piece of official Prench War Office notepaper dated March 9 th, 1931.

法国外籍兵团是按照皇家的一项法令建立的, 这项法令记录在一小页法国陆军部公函信笺上, 日期是1931年3月9日.

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