1·What was Central powers and Allied powers in WWI?
在一次大战中，什么是中心力量和同盟力量？
2·After a supreme effort in the spring of 1918, the Central Powers collapsed.
经过1918年春天的最大努力，同盟国土崩瓦解。
3·Japan joins the Allied forces: Ottoman Empire soon joins the Central Powers.
日本加入盟军：奥斯曼帝国很快加入了中央权力。
4·The nations allied against the Central Powers of Europe during World War I. They were Russia, France, Great Britain, and later many others, including the United States.
协约国：在第一次世界大战期间与欧洲同盟国对抗的结盟国家，有俄国、法国、英国，后来又有包括美国的其它很多国家。
5·The 24-year-old Tolkien arrived in time to take part in the Battle of the Somme, a campaign intended to break the stalemate between the Allies and Central Powers. It did not.
24岁的托尔金来到战场时，正好赶上参加索姆河战役，这场战役旨在打破协约国和同盟国之间的僵局，但是这一目标未能实现。
6·During the first world war the Balkans was divided into two camps: Serbia was fighting on the side of the triple entente against Bulgaria and Turkey which were in coalition with the central powers.
一战期间，巴尔干分成两个阵营：塞尔维亚在三国协约一方作战，而保加利亚和土耳其则与中央列强结盟。
7·The Citizens' Forum supported special powers for Quebec but also argued for the retention of a strong central government.
《市民论坛》支持魁北克的特殊权力，但是也主张保留一个强有力的中央政府。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
8·The central government devolved most tax-raising powers to the regional authorities.
中央政府将大部分征税权移交给了地方当局。
—— 《牛津词典》
9·The decision by Bernanke last year to invoke the Fed's emergency powers and put mortgages and other assets on the central bank's balance sheet "is pure Tobin," Krugman said.
伯南克去年做了如下决定：调用美联储的紧急权力，增加央行资产负债表的抵押贷款和其他资产，克鲁格曼称这“是纯粹的托宾式做法”。
10·The world's central bankers understand, even if the congressman doesn't, that the Fed didn't use the powers that it had to head off the bubble and bust of 2000 or 2007.
各国的央行行长们明白，尽管这帮议员没明白，美联储在2000年或2007年的泡沫破灭中并没有采取应该采取的措施。