There's a wonderful book by my former colleague, Geoffrey Parker, called The Spanish Road, which talked about how difficult it was for the Spanish to get troops all the way to the Netherlands.

我之前的同事 杰弗里·帕克,写了一本非常好的书,叫做《西班牙之路》,讲述了西班牙是怎么样艰苦地,将军队派遣到荷兰去的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

My home country is Croatia. I was born in and raised in what used to be the former Yugoslavia,

我是克罗地亚人。我生长在从前的南斯拉夫。

第二外语，英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

My stepfather was a former priest, one of the early black men ordained to the priesthood in the United States.

我的继父原先是一名牧师，是美国早期参与到,牧师事业中的黑人之一。

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