Grant was beginning to learn an important lesson of the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This must be the beginning of their education, Socrates says, making the children spectators of war.

这必需是他们的基础课程，苏格拉底说，让孩童们成为战争的旁观者。

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There were some atrocities at the beginning of World War I, but there was nothing like this again until World War II and, of course, Bosnia.

一战初期的部分暴行令人毛骨悚然,而二战的惨烈程度更加骇人听闻,波斯尼亚的屠杀当然包括在内

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The invasion is generally regarded as the beginning of World War II, which eventually involved almost all nations and killed tens of millions of people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The storm clouds of the approaching war are beginning to gather.

战前山雨欲来风满楼。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The American people are running out of patience, and with 114 members of the House voting this week against the war , Congress is beginning to catch up to the public."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

He spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria, but he died in London and he escaped to London soon after retreating there at the beginning of World War II as the Nazis began to occupy where he lived.

他的大半生都是居住在奥地利的维也纳，却在伦敦去世,二战伊始，随着纳粹侵占其家乡,他被迫背井离乡,后来逃到伦敦，在那里终其余生。

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