"I believe that most Hong Kong people will feel that we have won the first battle, able to control the spread of infection from the first index patient,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The first is the Triumph of Death, where you see what happens in real battle when people are just sort of slaughtered, and the commanders are off at a safe distance.

这一幅叫做《死亡的胜利》,你会看到真正的战争场面,人们在互相残杀,而指挥官们却在隔岸观火

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The first major battle on Northern territory has just been fought that day a hundred kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

We'll talk about the Battle of the Somme, s-o-m-m-e. And the Battle of the Somme, in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the first of July, 1916, there were 20,000 British soldiers killed.

我们会谈到索姆河战役,s-o-m-m-e,在索姆河战役,开战的头一天,1916年七月一号,20000英军士兵阵亡

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The plan seemed good. And after the first few hours of battle, the Confederates were close to victory.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

A battle followed, first involving local armed groups and then the United States Marines.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

In July of eighteen sixty-one, Union soldiers from the North and Confederate soldiers from the South fought the first major battle in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

McClellan chased them. For the first time, his army went into battle.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

In the first few hours of the battle, Union forces were winning.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

But they refused to commit themselves to a figure on helping developing nations battle climate change, saying they would wait to see what other countries offered first.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20