Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

This the first war that Nato has been in, as a war against a Nato member.

这是北约组织成立以来第一场针对其成员的战争。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.

我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith describe the first days of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Yeats is obviously writing in the context of an Irish civil war, but it's also the case that he's writing in the shadow of the First World War as well.

叶芝显然是在爱尔兰国内战争时期进行创作的，但是同时他也是在,一战的阴影下写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The first question was, "So Professor, what was the Civil War about?"

一般第一个问题就是,"教授,请问内战的目的是什么"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

And "Channel Firing," on the bottom of 51, is also set in the west of England, Hardy's home country, and is set right on the verge of the First World War.

海峡炮声》在51页的下半部分，也是发生在英格兰西部，哈迪的祖国，并且也是发生在一战临近时期的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

She was the first woman to be permitted to work in combat areas during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He easily won the presidency in eighteen sixty-eight in the first election held after the war.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

World War Two ended. Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

So they and the Liberal Democrats have formed Britain's first coalition government since World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

The civil war in Greece ended. American help for Greece and Turkey was the first step in what became known as the "Truman Doctrine."

VOA: special.2011.08.04

And,in leading that war, he took the first steps that would destroy the institution of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The garden will be the first on the White House lawn since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

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

They remembered that South Carolina had fired the first shots of the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The First Barbary War stopped piracy against American ships for a time.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In nineteen fourteen, Europe exploded into the First World War.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

"I cannot fire the first gun of the war."

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The upsurge in violence came a day before the first anniversary of the Gaza War,in which more than 1,100 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18