Other times, he seemed full of regret, explaining his failure to surrender or escape as his way of fulfilling "a moral obligation to stay" with the colonel before adding, "My courage failed me."

其他时候，上校看来满怀悔疚，他解释由于要覆行“道义上留下来的承诺”，不能投降或逃亡，之前还补上一句：“我的勇气害了我。”

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The guerrillas would fight to death before they surrender.

游击队员们宁愿战斗到死也决不投降。

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Surrender your ticket before going in.

进去前交出入场券。

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We would see all other taxes ended before we surrender any part of the protective tariff system."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Abraham Lincoln had been murdered before the final surrender of Confederate forces.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Mr Bouteflika's plan is based on offering a partial amnesty to armed militants who surrender before a deadline in January.

ECONOMIST: Abdelkader Hachani

When the bomb was built, however, he was among the Manhattan scientists who put their names to a letter to President Truman asking that the Japanese be given a demonstration and a chance to surrender before the device was used on a city.

ECONOMIST: Glenn Seaborg

In short, European countries must surrender much economic sovereignty before Germans will trust them to share their bank account.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne