The first world war had left prices higher and the pound weaker.

第一次世界大战让物价节节攀升，英镑日渐疲软。

Because eventually over the decades, Austria-Hungary would collapse after the first world war.

因为最终在几十年后，奥匈帝国在第一次世界大战后解体。

He was eventually found by the British and captured during the first world war.

他最终被英国人发现，并在第一次世界大战期间被俘。

In 1916, he patented a precursor to the gas mask used by soldiers during the first world war.

1916年，他为一战期间士兵使用的防毒面具的前身申请了专利。

And by the time she was 39, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been assassinated sparking the first world war.

当她39岁时，弗朗茨·斐迪南大公遭到刺杀，引发第一次世界大战。

Virginia Woolf's London in “Mrs Dalloway” (1925) is mournful, offering little succour after the first world war.

维吉尼亚·伍尔芙《达洛维夫人》（1925）中的伦敦死气沉沉，不给一战结束后的人们半分慰藉。

For Monet, these works would be his very personal response to the mass tragedy of the first world war.

对莫奈来说，这些作品是他对第一次世界大战的集体悲剧的个人回应。

Poles came to harvest sugar beet in the years before the first world war.

波兰人在第一次世界大战前的几年里来这里收割糖用甜菜。

Both colonialism itself and the divided cities it spawned reached their zenith on the eve of the first world war.

第一次世界大战前夕，殖民统治和割裂的城市均发展到鼎盛时期。

Its traditional approach goes back to a law passed before the first world war.

最传统的办法还要追溯到一战前通过的法条。