"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

concerned his refusal to join in the judgment to condemn and execute the ten Athenian generals who had failed to collect the corpses, the bodies, of the men lost in a particular battle during the Peloponnesian War?

关于他拒绝参与,谴责及处决十名雅典将军的审判,只因为他们无能,运回战死官兵尸体，那些在著名的伯罗奔尼萨战役中,牺牲的官兵？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

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But Turkey says the Armenians were victims of a civil war, and lives were lost on both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

In France,Mr.Zardari took a swipe at the West's strategy in Afghanistan, telling French media the war against the Taliban is being lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06