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Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.
自二次世界大战以来，2008年后半年见证了最为惨重的机动车辆需求紧缩。上周公布的数据证实了这一点。
The US energy secretary, Stephen Chu, likened the initiative to the breakthrough in seed technology after the second world war that dramatically boosted food production.
美国能源部长朱棣文把这种创新比作第二次世界大战后极大地提高粮食生产的种子技术的突破。
That loss of competitiveness could prove another obstacle to a speedy recovery as the world's largest economy shows signs of emerging from its deepest recession since the Second World War.
在美国出现从二战以来最为严重的经济衰退中复苏的迹象之际，竞争力的丧失可能成为这个全球最大经济体快速复苏的另一个障碍。

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.
A poem published after the Second World War, written about the post-war world.
这首诗发表在二战后，写的是战后的世界。
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It was right after the Second World War.
二战刚刚结束。
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At the end of the second world war America's dreams were collectively ambitious but individually modest.
ECONOMIST: 20th-century America