Matthew Paris’s description of Dover as the key to England was made in his account of the great siege of 1216.

马修·帕里斯称多佛为“英格兰之匙”，正是源自其对1216年围城大战的记述。

youdao

Few people have changed the region as much as the Romans, yet their republic's five centuries get only a page more than the great siege of Gibraltar which began in 1779.

罗马人民对该地区产生的影响没有哪个民族能与之相比，然而本书关于罗马共和国五个世纪的历史的记述也就比始于1977年的直布罗陀包围战多了一页而已。

youdao

And there was a Greek story to the effect that the sentinels at the siege of Troy changed their guard according to the vertical or horizontal positions of the tail of the Great Bear.

从前有个希腊故事，大意是说，哨兵们包围特洛伊城后，根据大熊星星尾的垂直或水平位置改变其守卫战略。

youdao

However, his next big movie project looks like being a period blockbuster set during the Great Siege in Malta in 1565.

BBC: Ritchie: My 'magnificent' marriage

One other report from old London is Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year, " a fictional, though chillingly persuasive, account of the metropolis under siege from the Great Plague in 1665.

WSJ: Novels Set in London | Dear Book Lover

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

WHITEHOUSE: Security Review on Attempted Terrorist Attack