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Guns fall silent: war
- When the first world war ended, 100 years ago this Sunday, David Lloyd George, Britain’s prime minister, told Parliament: “I hope we may say that thus…came to an end all wars.”
- prime minister 首相；总理
- Parliament 英国议会（包括下议院和上议院）
History proved him wrong.
But the world is now far more peaceful.
Fewer than one in 100,000 people have died in combat per year since 2000—one-sixth the rate between 1950 and 2000, and one-fiftieth of that between 1900 and 1950.
- combat 战斗；搏斗；打仗
- Nuclear weapons may have deterred major powers from fighting each other, though wars have declined among non-nuclear states, too.
- Nuclear weapons 核武器
- deter 防止,阻止,制止,使不敢,使踌躇
- decline 下跌,下倾
- Another reason might be the spread of democracy and global norms.
- global norms 国际惯例
- An Economist analysis of all international and civil wars since 1900 shows a strong correlation between democracy and peace, with a few exceptions, such as America.
- civil wars 内战
- correlation 相关性
8.That relationship does not seem to be linear, however: the countries most prone to wars appear to be neither autocracies nor full democracies, but those in between.
- linear （进展）直线式的; 线性的
- autocracy 独裁政治；独裁权；专制国家
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现在大战争好像没有，反正是那些恐怖组织多了，处于一个没有战争的时代，更多的还是要以史为鉴。
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