[烛光生存狂]-"WWII radar history"疑难段落分析

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Britain was not free of carrier acrimony. The Royal Navy had lost airplanes and pilots to the Air Force in 1917 and found this increasingly exasperating. When the Air Force suffered the inevitable cuts, the carriers lost much of their bite. The Navy continued to press for full control over the Fleet Air Arm and succeeded in Auguset 1937. Force of argument hade eventually combined with a diminished fear in the RAF of being eaten alive by its parent services to decided the outcome. Their carriers had obsolete aircraft but fortunately were to have only a brief, if bruising, encounter with their Japanese counterparts.

　　关于航母（是否有存在的必要）/是否应该大力发展航母，英国也是争议重重。

　　 the carriers lost much of their bite.

　　航母也就没有什么战斗力可言了。

　　Force of argument hade eventually combined with a diminished fear in the RAF of being eaten alive by its parent services to decided the outcome.

　　争议最终和皇家空军对其被上级主管单位兼并/整合的担忧共同造成这种结局。

　if bruising(如果算得上是惨痛的）/如果说是惨痛的，

　　The Navy continued to press for full control over the Fleet Air Arm and succeeded in Auguset 1937. (1)

　　Force of argument(2) hade eventually combined with a diminished fear(3) in the RAF of being eaten alive by its parent services to decided the outcome.

　　in short: 2 plus 3 makes 1 possible:

　　navy's forceful argument plus RAF's dimished fear make Navy got full control of Fleet Air Arm.

　　RAF fear its plane and pilot will be taken over by Navy if Navy have full control (because "Royal Navy had lost airplanes and pilots to the Air Force in 1917", pilot and plane is RAF's territory)

　　if, could be interpreted as "even though, but";

　　as of interpretation of "bruising", you can look up naval combat history, damage is minor, then bruising is nothing serious like crippling or lost of arm/leg; if loss is heavy then bruising could be interpreted as heavily beat up.

　　just as someone already pointed out, it is the context (here, a not-so-obvious context)

　　also, the article seems talking about british navy, maybe you should consider the encounter refers to battle between navies (no merely carriers), so bruisng could also refer to result to brit navy (instead just brit carrier)

　　hope this is not putting you into more confusion:)

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