But the mercenaries he employs may think differently: they are paid to fight, but not to the death.

但是他部署的雇佣军可能有其他想法：他们参战是为了钱，而不是来送死的。

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This attack could not be justified.But the report also notes an influx of volunteers and mercenaries from Russia to South Ossetia before the conflict.

这次袭击当然不能算作正当的行动，但报告同样指出，在开战前，有大批志愿兵和雇佣军从俄罗斯涌入了南奥赛梯。

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At the Aruba School, contained in a series of cold, thinly insulated classrooms, roughly 200 suspected mercenaries huddle beneath blankets on mattresses on the floor.

在那间阿鲁巴学校，寒冷简陋的教室中，约200名雇佣兵嫌疑犯，在地板上床垫和毛毯包裹的狭小空间里蜷缩成一团。

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and the Afghan government would reach out to. Vice President Biden says nearly three-quarters of the insurgents are mercenaries,not ideologues.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

It didn't matter, because the Protestant armies had Catholic mercenaries and the Catholic armies had Protestant mercenaries.

这无关紧要,因为新教军队中有天主教雇佣军,天主教军队中也有新教雇佣军

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Quirantes cites allegations that Venezuela and other leftist leaders have sent mercenaries to Honduras to undermine the de facto government of President Roberto Micheletti.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The deal did not work, and the mercenaries left.

ECONOMIST: Sierra Leone

The court of Louis XIV was impressed as much by the neckerchiefs of Croat mercenaries employed to fight the Thirty Years War as by their fighting spirit.

ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

The grizzled Arab mercenaries, who'd fled the Hezbollah reoccupation with little more than the clothes on their backs, looked a tad startled in their new flip flops and red-blue board shorts.

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