During the war Washington suffered several defeats, but he held his forces together and won at Trenton and Princeton (1776-1777), and most important, at Yorktown (1781).

战争中，华盛顿经历了数次失败，但他却在特顿和普林斯顿取得胜利（1776-1777），而约克镇大捷更对战争胜利起了重要作用。

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Margaret Thatcher did exaggerate a bit, but she was essentially right when she said that "Reagan won the cold war without firing a shot."

玛格·丽特·撒切尔说得有些夸张，但她说的那句“里根不费一枪一弹赢得了冷战”是切中要害的。

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But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time as well.

但我们也是那些赢得和平而不只是战争的人们的后后代，他们将仇敌转变成最可靠的朋友，我们也必须把这些经验带到这个时代。

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But he said the war will not be won by just killing insurgents.

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Advocates of limited government, it is said, have lost the battle of health care, but won the war of the commerce clause.

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Dewey won the battle, but Taft won the war.

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Capitalism has won the economic war, but it has not yet won the moral war.

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