The Pacific war was a secondary priority anyway.

并且太平洋战争也是次要的。

The second fact was that the Pacific War had not ended.

第二件事是太平洋战争还没有结束。

And one of these was to get the Soviets to help fight the Pacific war.

其中一个政策就是让苏联帮忙打太平洋战争。

Afterwards, Hawaii became the major military base for the American fight against Japan in the ensuing Pacific War.

此后，在太平洋战争中，夏威夷成为美国对日作战的主要军事基地。

The Japanese quickly captured Britain's Far Eastern territories, leaving the US to fight the Pacific war almost all alone.

日本迅速地占领了英国的远东领土，美国在太平洋战场上几乎是孤军作战。

Logically, Soviet help would bring the Pacific war to a much quicker end than the US could accomplish all by itself.

因此逻辑上来说，苏联如果帮助孤军作战的美国，将能够更快地终结太平洋战争。

The Soviets did jump eagerly into the Pacific war after Germany surrendered in May 1945, but they wouldn't stay engaged for long.

苏联在1945年5月德国投降后，也的确加入了太平洋战争，但他们不会打上太久。

As the ghosts of the Pacific war judder back to life in Asia, it seems appropriate to consider how nation states remember, and misremember, the past.

近日，太平洋地区发生战争的阴霾再次笼罩着亚洲。现在来思考民族国家是如何铭记及误记历史的，似乎正是时候。

He returns to the terrain of “Embracing Defeat”, marvelling at how the vicious racial hatreds of the Pacific war dissipated so quickly, as though “turned off like a spigot”.

回到《拥抱战败》 的主题上，道尔惊叹于太平洋战争深刻的种族仇视竟然平息得如此之快，就像“水龙头一样关掉了”。

Yamato's construction was kept top secret,   and the Americans were completely unaware of her existence when she was commissioned  a week after the start of the Pacific War.

大和号的建造一直处于绝密状态，太平洋战争开始一周后，当她服役时，美国人完全不知道她的存在。