Hundreds or thousands of men were put in long lines across the front of the enemy position.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

You need to do that to be able to control the shield that's as big as that and as heavy as that, because it is made fundamentally of a heavy wood, typically covered by leather, sometimes with some bronze, a bronze sheet across the front of it as well.

如果你想自如操控这块盾牌就必须得这样,这种盾牌很大并且很笨重,因为它主要是由沉重的木材制成,表面一般覆有皮革,或包上铜皮,就是表面上有一层铜皮

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So if the waves are good out in front of the house, I just get up, walk across the street.

所以门前浪好的时候我就起来，过街冲浪。

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There has been a lot of bad news since . So we have a worsening situation that requires adjustments across a broad front,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The explosions appear to have come from inside the buildings, with both the front and back windows of the Ritz Carlton blown off, spreading glass and debris across the street.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

Prosecutors say he led members of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of the country's Mr.Taylor's lawyers maintain that any contact their client had with Sierra Leonean rebels ended before the jurisdiction of this court begins.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10