The cemetery started as a burial ground for American Civil War dead.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Here, war refuses to let the dead lie in peace, with the notion that not even the dead are safe from it, unaffected by it.

在这里战争拒绝让死者安静的躺着,有一种信念认为即使是死者是安全的，不受其影响的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

And the president who had led the Union during that war was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

He has pleaded not guilty on all counts. More than 100,000 people were left dead after Sierra Leone's Civil War, which ended in 2002.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

In its report,the U.N.panel headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone said Israeli forces and Palestinian Hamas forces committed violations of international law, including war crimes, during the 22-day conflict which left 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04