He said, "Because we lost the war."

他说"因为我们战败了"

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The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

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concerned his refusal to join in the judgment to condemn and execute the ten Athenian generals who had failed to collect the corpses, the bodies, of the men lost in a particular battle during the Peloponnesian War?

关于他拒绝参与,谴责及处决十名雅典将军的审判,只因为他们无能,运回战死官兵尸体，那些在著名的伯罗奔尼萨战役中,牺牲的官兵？

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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

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