military deaths in Afghanistan since the war began.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Thomas was born in 1878, so he was thirty-six when the war began.

托马斯于1878年出生，战争开始的时候他36岁。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He began, almost at the same time as the war began, to write poems.

在战争刚刚开始的时候他就开始写诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

With the impasse unlikely to be resolved before the end of this month, when U.S.troops will drop to their lowest levels in Iraq since the war began in 2003, the U.N.Security Council pressed the legislators to work through their differences in "the national interest" and form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of Americans began to move west to settle the land.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

And then Woodward argued quite directly that the loss of the Vietnam War began to liberate the South, in a sense that the South, Southerners, white Southerners, were the only Americans other than we always forget Native Americans who had ever lost a war.

接着沃德沃直截了当地说,越南战争的损失开始导致南方的解放,因为从某种程度上说,南方人,南方白种人,是美国唯一除了印第安人之外,我们总忽略这些北美原住民,输掉过战争的人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Cabinet members began to arrive, while wild reports spread through the city: the Confederates had declared war again!

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

He began with education. Before the war, female children in Japan received little if any education.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Not many people were known to have climbed them until the Second World War began.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Two weeks after the Spanish-American War began, the Army sent a small force to Cuba.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

But the holiday began as a way to remember soldiers killed in the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Before she could go home,though, the war between France and Prussia began in eighteen seventy.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The final Union campaign of the Civil War began on May third, eighteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Harriet found another way to fight slavery after the Civil War began in Eighteen-Sixty-One.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

It went out of business because of the Civil War, which began that year.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Near the end of the war, Germany began firing huge rocket bombs at Britain.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

He began to talk about the Civil War and what had caused it.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

The real movement into the American West began after the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

The report accuses both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes during the three-week war in Gaza that began in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Mexican President Felipe Calderon began the war on organized crime shortly after taking office in December,2006.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In his commencement address, President Obama told the cadets he believes the nature of the war in Afghanistan has changed since it began in 2001, but that it is no less important today.

VOA: standard.2010.05.22

But President Obama said fighting terrorism is as important now as when the Afghan war began in the days after the September, "Al-Qaida and its affiliates are small men on the wrong side of history."

VOA: standard.2010.05.22