He can claim to have been defeated by opponents copying his own tactics.

他可能会宣称他已经被模仿他策略的对手打败了。

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The Ministry has been defeated by an overwhelming majority.

内阁被压倒多数票击败。

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We must recognize that we have been defeated.

我们必须承认我们被击败了。

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The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

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Satan and the rebel angels have been roundly defeated.

撒旦和叛乱天使们被彻底击败了。

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He had been defeated by Benjamin Harrison.

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But in July, reports surfaced that the services' upgraded CAPTCHAs had also been defeated.

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Bob Dole, he's never been defeated for the Senate when he ran for president in 1996.

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Deflation has not yet been defeated: consumer prices fell by 0.4% in the year to December.

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