They launched their plannoes on a quiet Sunday morning and attacked the huge American naval and air base at Pearl Harbor "We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin: The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor,Hawaii by air, President Roosevelt has just announced."

VOA: special.2011.06.02

Similarly, in naval battles Themistocles at Salamis comes up with a clever device.

在萨拉弥斯海战中,地米斯托克利也是靠着类似的招数才扭转乾坤

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It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

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He said the two officials agreed that their militaries will conduct a joint "search and rescue" exercise involving naval and air forces, and to resume regular consultations on maritime and other defense issues in December.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Experts believe this statue was made by the people of Rhodes about two thousand two hundred years ago as a religious offering to honor a naval victory.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

A British naval blockade had greatly reduced food shipments to Germany.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

American ships had trapped a Spanish naval force there earlier.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Israeli naval commandos stormed onto a ship loaded with weapons near Cyprus and took it to Israel's southern port of Ashdod.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Pyongyang goes on to say what it calls "the reckless military provocations" threaten to prompt a naval clash.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Joan Johnson-Freese of the U.S.Naval War College in Rhode Island says that even without a manned Moon mission, the U.S.still will be the biggest player in space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

North Korea has never accepted a United Nations-mandated border there, and the two Koreas have fought two deadly naval battles in the area in the past 10 years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Relations between the two Koreas have deteriorated steadily since the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel in the Yellow Sea, exploded a month ago, killing 46 crew members.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

He was the first witness in a probe examining the government's decision to send naval commandos to intercept six ships trying to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Appealing for restraint at a news conference, Clinton said she was encouraged by the calm reaction to the naval encounter and said plans for the long-anticipated Bosworth mission are going forward.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The North Korean Central News Agency carried a statement from the country's Naval command,Thursday, accusing South Korea of sending warships into the North's territorial waters at least 10 times this week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

We needed something, we had to invent it." Over his long naval career, Walsh served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, commanded a submarine and worked as a policy advisor and assistant to the secretary of the Navy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

The threat,made on December 31 in a message posted on an extremist Internet Web site, prompted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to elevate the risk for all U.S.military and commercial ships sailing through an area stretching from Somalia to the Persian Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07