For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He was honored for bravery by at least three commanding officers in numerous battles, especially the Battle of Chancellorsville in May of 1863; he was promoted to Captain.

他以英勇著称,在诸多战役中被至少三位指挥军官称赞过,特别是在1863年5月的昌塞浩斯维尔战役中,他被提拔为上尉

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

Children will be taken, he seems to suggest, to battles and to sites of where fighting is going on, to be spectators for them to become used to and habituated to seeing war and what everything that goes on.

孩童应被带到，依他所提，带到战场上，即打仗的地点，让他们在场观战,熟悉并习惯于看到战争及一切,伴随发生的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For Lieutenant Lilly Alexei, the military exercises today may be vital practice for real battles in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06