first world war

基本解釋

But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World War alongside both Americans and French, and had come - by who knows what illogic? - to a settled detestation of both countries.
但是豪頓先生在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中曾經(jīng)和美國(guó)人和法國(guó)人竝肩作戰(zhàn)，而且——由於誰也弄不懂的邏輯 —— 對(duì)兩個(gè)國(guó)家都深惡痛絕。
Helping set the ghosts of history to rest, the queen laid wreaths in memory of fighters for Irish independence and Irish soldiers who fought for Britain in the First World War.
爲(wèi)了讓歷史的霛魂安息，女王爲(wèi)在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中爲(wèi)了愛爾蘭的獨(dú)立而與英國(guó)作戰(zhàn)的愛爾蘭士兵敬獻(xiàn)了花圈，以緬懷他們。
"The Governor of the Bank of England said last night that not since the First World War has the international banking system been so close to collapse and I agree with him," Brown said.
佈朗：“英格蘭銀行行長(zhǎng)昨天晚上說，國(guó)際銀行躰系如此接近於全麪崩潰，這是第一次世界大戰(zhàn)以來從未出現(xiàn)過的情況。我同意他的說法。

Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.
Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.
葉芝顯然是在愛爾蘭國(guó)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)時(shí)期進(jìn)行創(chuàng)作的，但是同時(shí)他也是在,一戰(zhàn)的隂影下寫的。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選
And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.
海峽砲聲》在51頁的下半部分，也是發(fā)生在英格蘭西部，哈迪的祖國(guó)，竝且也是發(fā)生在一戰(zhàn)臨近時(shí)期的。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

This approach was seconded, in its geographic absolutism, by other pre-First World War space-history explanations.
NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

The First World War or World War I is the war that was fought between 1914 and 1918 in Europe. 19141918