President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It wasn't immediately renewed -- because the United States got into a war that we call The War of 1812.

许可证并没有立即被更新,因为当时美国卷入了一场战争,被我们叫做1812年战争。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the president who ended slavery in the rebel southern states during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

On December tenth, eighteen ninety-eight, the United States and Spain signed a treaty in Paris officially ending the war between them.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.

有一点很有趣，It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道，肯定不难发现,二战以后，阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由，民主，平等的象征。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

It wasn't until after the war that we created a new Bank of the United States in 1816 and gave it a twenty-year charter as well.

直到战争结束,我们才于1816年建立了一个新的美国银行,并且又给了它20年的许可证。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

You can see that residential investment, as a fraction of GDP, has been very variable through history of the United States since World War II and that it's had a strong relationship with recessions.

住宅投资要计入,国内生产总值,纵观美国自二战以来,这部分投资,变动很大,而且与衰退存在着密切关联

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

We've seen a boom in building in the United States that is at a record level, except for that one Korean War blip, and so I think it's a highly abnormal situation that we've been in.

所以美国出现一波建造新房的浪潮,规模空前,仅次于朝鲜战争时期,我认为这是极不正常的

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The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But he needed the continued loyalty of those border states, like Maryland and Kentucky, or risk losing the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2009.04.11

As we do,we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2011.05.07

The period after the Civil War in the United States was marked by several famous incidents involving violations of the public trust.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He was the chief military advisor to the Philippine military forces when the United States entered World War Two in December,nineteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

She said what surprises them most is when she states firmly that the Civil War was,in fact, about the fight over slavery.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

Troops from the English colonies that would become the United States supported the British army in the war.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

They wanted strong policies to punish the southern states that left the Union and lost the war.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

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

VOA: special.2009.07.20

It prevented a civil war. The eighteen fifty compromise did not,however, end slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He knew that if he opened fire, the United States and South Carolina would be at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Feelings against the war were growing stronger, not only in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but also in several other farm states of the north.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

After the Civil War, most southern states were governed by radical members of the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

General Stanley McChrystal has warned that without more troops, the United States could lose the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

In London,the British government decided that Oregon was not worth a war with the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19