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Even the war debt payment, which aroused keen public interest in December, has in June provoked hardly more than casual and academic curiosity.
即使是 12 月份引起大眾急切關注與興趣的戰(zhàn)債付款，到了 6 月份也都漠不關心了，也引不起學術界的好奇心了。
In other words, the military of the world’s richest nation amounted to hardly more than a border constabulary armed with obsolete equipment like 1903 Springfield rifles.
換句話來說，這世界上最富有的國家的軍隊實力，其配置的裝備很難超過一個邊境警察佩戴過時的如1903年的斯普林菲德爾步槍。
Since the dawn of man, it’s hardly more than 100 years since we were even allowed into these buildings except to clean them but soon most of law and medical degrees will probably also go to women.
僅僅是100年前，女人若不是清潔工，還不可能有機會邁進寫字樓里，但是那不久之后，女人也有資格考取醫(yī)學，法律學位了。

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