world war two

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The landscape of parts of Japan looks like the aftermath of World War Two; no industrialised country since then has suffered such a death toll.
日本部分地区震后的惨景就如同经历了第二次世界大战的洗礼一般。而自二战以来没有一个工业大国遭遇到如此惨重的死亡代价。
My father fought in World War Two. And he must have been a real hero -- he has a whole box full of medals. But he’s a tight-lipped man who never talks about what he did to earn them.
他说:“我父亲参加过第二次世界大战。他肯定是一个真正的英雄,因为他有一个盒子里全是奖章。但是,他是一个不多说话的人,他从来也没有说过他干了了些什么才得到这些奖章的。”
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In December of nineteen forty-one, Japan bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This event marked the United States' official entry in World War Two.
1941年12月，日本轰炸美国位于夏威夷珍珠港的海军基地，这一事件迫使美国正式加入第二次世界大战。

During World War Two, Eugene McCarthy worked as a technical aide for a military intelligence office of the War Department.
If you look at the history of U.S. Taxes, the very simple history is World War One and World War Two.
如果你看一下美国税收历史，里面提到了一个典型的时期,就是一次世界大战和二次世界大战的时候。
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They did it again, even more decisively in World War Two, and that's how we got progressive taxes.
而二次世界大战时，他们毫不犹豫的，再次提高了对富人的征税，这就是累进税的由来。
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One of the military's goals during World War Two was the maintenance of civilian morale.
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