"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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.05.10

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