The song of victory is sung before the battle has been fought.

争战之前应当先唱胜利的凯歌！

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All the officers were summoned to the general's tent before the battle.

开战前所有的军官都被召集到将军的帐篷。

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Before the battle, soldiers swore an oath to carry out their duties faithfully.

打仗之前士兵们都宣誓要忠诚的履行职责。

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That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Before the battle: Mark Fields, Bill Ford's number two executive, is looking for a way forward.

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In 1759, on the night before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, British Gen.

WSJ: Meditation on Mortality | Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard | Thomas Gray | Masterpiece by John J. Miller

The Hind Hotel was a resting point for Oliver Cromwell's army before the Battle of Naseby in 1645.

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