But he was happy it did. Now he had time to prepare his men for battle.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

And he did, for four years, and died in the last battle.

四年,他成功了,战死在最后的沙场上

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Thucydides has an interesting passage in there, in which he says that the Spartans win the Battle of Mantinea and Thucydides says that the Spartans did not pursue the hoplite.

关于这一点,修昔底德有段精彩的论述,在讲斯巴达人赢得曼提尼亚战役时提到过,他说,斯巴达人不追击敌人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But one large group of soldiers did not get into the battle at all that day.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Finally,it did. And the smoke of battle began to clear.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

They were not expected to agree to plow more money into their own economies to battle the financial crisis - and they did not.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

In its 1973 "Roe versus Wade" decision, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that individual states may not ban abortion, but it did not end the political battle over the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17