Maybe work on seeing the other point of view and you won't lock horns as much as you did this year.

如果能试着从别的角度看问题，也许你就不会像今年一样和别人有这么多的争执了。

This second era ended some four decades later, after another world war had drained the Europeans of much of their strength, Arab nationalism had risen, and the two superpowers had begun to lock horns.

第二次世界大战消耗了欧洲人的大部分精力，在其之后，约四十年后，第二个时代结束。阿拉伯民族主义兴起，阿拉伯与欧洲两个超级大国开始发生冲突。