He replaced General Ambrose Burnside, when Burnside suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg,Virginia, at the end of eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The Egyptian magicians who are initially able to mimic some of the plagues that are brought on by God--they are quickly bested, and Yahweh's defeat of the magicians is tantamount to the defeat of the gods of Egypt.

埃及的巫师最初只会模仿,上帝制造的瘟疫，巫师们随后就被打败了，耶和华战胜了巫师相当于,打败了埃及的众神。

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And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

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The strategy says the United States aims to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida, but also to support democracy and human rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He said the three nations are joined by a common goal to "defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Mr.Panetta said he believed the killing gave the United States the best chance to defeat al-Qaida since the attacks of September eleventh,two thousand one.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Other wishes included working for a nuclear-free Korea and to defeat extremists in Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

after its defeat. Yukio Hatoyama is sixty-two years old.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The F-22 is what experts call an "air superiority" fighter, designed to defeat enemy jets in mid-air battles.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the president said, the United States is determined to defeat al-Qaida and extremist forces.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

But the drive for health-care reform ran headlong into opposition Republicans eager to regain their political footing after suffering defeat in the 2008 election.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"President Obama has articulated a clear policy to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida and its allies.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Mr.Obama said coming together is the only way to solve the economic crisis and defeat global threats like al-Qaida and the spread of nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

He said the coalition effort to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan will be costly and require great commitment, but that it will succeed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

(Speaking) Rage says al-Shabab received assistance from locals to defeat Ahlu-Sunna forces in Dhusamareb.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

President Obama,in late March, outlined a comprehensive plan to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in order to bring security to Afghanistan and to construct a civil infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

An editorial in al-Ahram Thursday likens normalization to the defeat suffered by Native Americans who let distractions lead to their doom in the battle against European settlers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

"In this region,and beyond, we will tolerate no safe haven for al-Qaida and their extremist allies, we will disrupt and we will dismantle, and we will ultimately defeat al-Qaida."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

He said the time had come to re-take the country from al-Shabab and urged parliament members and Somali citizens to assist the government in efforts to defeat the militants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The president vowed once again to defeat,dismantle and destroy al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

We will not rest until we do defeat al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

The president said that includes bringing the Iraq war to a responsible end and pursuing a new, comprehensive strategy to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida and its allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

The two cabinet secretaries say the United States still wants to deter, defeat and dismantle the al-Qaida terrorist network, as President Obama said in his statement on strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

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

The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He says American forces will be able to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan as they made significant gains against insurgents in Iraq if the president sends enough troops and other resources to do the job.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22