Ancient boxing masters often developed their fighting techniques by observing the world around them.

古代拳术大师常常遁过观察他们周围的世界改进拳术技法。

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After hard fighting, the defenders were still masters of the city.

守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。

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As I watched Adam Scott become the first Aussie to win the Masters (fighting off a game challenge from 2009 Masters champ Angel Cabrera of Argentina), it was unavoidable to think about the invaluable importance of experience.

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Scott Gration, Barack Obama's energetic new special envoy to Sudan, believes that the best chance of peace for this divided country remains the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the Islamist government in Khartoum, in the north of the country, and the former rebels of south Sudan, who are quite separate from the Darfuris, and had been fighting their northern masters for most of the past half-century.

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The army, in looting and raping rather than standing and fighting, is merely imitating its masters.

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