A conflict the U.S.fought and lost some 40 years ago has come back to haunt a young president, his advisors,his generals, and the country he governs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

After his death, his empire was divided up among his generals, and after some fighting and maneuvering and negotiations, four successors to Alexander the Great finally ended up splitting up his large empire into four smaller empires.

亚历山大死后，他的帝国被部下瓜分，经过数场战争，谋略及谈判，四位亚历山大大帝的继业者,最终将他庞大的帝国分割为四个部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

If you get into the fifth century, late in the fifth century, Thucydides in his history has one of his generals speak to his men and say,"Men are the polis."

如果你回到五世纪,在五世纪末,修昔底德在他的年代就曾经,希腊历史学家,代表作《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》 对人民做过一次演讲,他说"人就是城邦"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This week,Kim Jong Un and his aunt, the sister of Kim Jong Il, became four-star generals with little military experience.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

It's a secret number so that if Julius Caesar scrambled his message with the key 13, well, then the recipient had better know what that number is or realistically, -- and this is why it's kind of hard to buy -- into some of these age old algorithms, -- what would an alternative approach be to figuring out Julius Caesar's messages to his generals if he didn't know that secret number was 13?

它是一个机密的数字，以至于,如果凯撒大帝使用密钥13加密了它的消息，然后接收者最好知道那个数字是什么,实际上--这就是为什么很难,破解这些古老的算法-,有什么变换方法使凯撒大帝的将军,可以解密凯撒大帝的消息，如果他不知道,那个机密数字是13呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Jamil Sayyed, one of the four generals released Wednesday, claims that his arrest was "politically motivated," and that he, along with Hezbollah, intend to use the release for political gain in the upcoming elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

concerned his refusal to join in the judgment to condemn and execute the ten Athenian generals who had failed to collect the corpses, the bodies, of the men lost in a particular battle during the Peloponnesian War?

关于他拒绝参与,谴责及处决十名雅典将军的审判,只因为他们无能,运回战死官兵尸体，那些在著名的伯罗奔尼萨战役中,牺牲的官兵？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选