Northerners had expected to win the battle of Bull Run. They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

北方人本来期望联邦军会在马纳萨斯战役中获胜，他们认为如果联邦军在美国内战初期能够取得一次重大胜利，那么南方的邦联军就会因此而失败。

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Even back then, early in the war, his opinion differed considerably from Lees, for it appeared to him that we like fighting plenty, and the more terrible it is the better.

即便在当时，战争开始还没有多久，他也完全不同意李的说法，因为这个说法像是在说我们原本是好战的，而且希望战争越残酷就越好。

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In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

斯坦利·麦克里斯特尔将军在《赋能》一书中，描述了在伊拉克战争早期，军队等级结构对军事行动的阻碍。

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They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

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In the early post-war period, the corporate--now I'm going to talk-- there's a distinction between the rate that they charge and the actual amount that they take.

在战后初期,公司的...我要说明的是,政府规定的税率,与实际征收的税率之间存在着差异

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Until we get, of course, this is early days, until we get to the Peloponnesian War when things change radically in fighting in general, but this is your standard. Yes sir?

当然这指的是早期,直到伯罗奔尼撒战争,才全面改写了战争规则,但你可把这当做一种标准时长,请讲

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Rumsfeld, who suffered heavy criticism of his tactics early in the war, has been at pains to stress he is not on a victory tour.

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We did it in World War II, in the Cold War and again, to a lesser degree, in the early stages of the War on Terror.

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Early in the Cold War, Einstein warned of the danger of our wisdom not keeping pace with our technology.

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