An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.

一项行动正在展开来拯救一个鳄鱼种类使其免遭灭绝。

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He is beginning to pick up after the operation.

手术后他的病有了起色。

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To do that, they need her to be conscious and responsive through the beginning of the operation process.

要做到这些，他们需要她在手术开始到结束的过程中保持神志清醒并能做出应答。

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Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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On June twenty-sixth, the first C-47s landed at Tempelhof Airport - the beginning of the great operation that was to come.

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France has suffered only one fatality, a helicopter pilot killed at the beginning of the operation.

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But I think the main effort of this operation is just beginning.

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Camilla will have the operation at the beginning of March and will spend several days in hospital before going home to recover.

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