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http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20100208/157814570.html

It is unclear when the Maxim gun was used first. Some scholars say that it was in Africa in 1893, during the British conflict with the Zulu. Others say it happened several years later, during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

试译如下：

还不清楚马克沁何时第一次使用，一些学者认为是1983年非洲英国和祖鲁冲突中，也有人认为是几年后中国的义和团运动。