Guns fall silent: war

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Guns fall silent: war

1. 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）

2. History proved him wrong.

3. But the world is now far more peaceful.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Another reason might be the spread of democracy and global norms.

• global norms 国际惯例

7. 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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