They fired in the general direction of the enemy.

他们向敌军所在的大致的方向开了枪。

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Riot police fired in the air and lashed out with clubs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators.

防暴警察向空中开了枪，并猛击警棍来驱散数百名示威者。

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Materials from different parts of the country were sent to Beijing through the canal, including bricks fired in Shandong and Jiangsu and wood cut in Hunan.

全国各地的材料，包括山东、江苏烧制的砖块和湖南的木材，都通过运河运到了北京。

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Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

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And he gave a very good analogy in saying, "It was almost as incredible as if you'd fired a 15 inch shell at a piece of tissue paper, and it came back and hit you."

他还打过一个很好的比方：,“这就像是,你用个15英寸果壳,打到面巾纸上被弹回来打到你，一样不可思议，“

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In the meantime, Trotsky's book is a shot fired across the bow of those forms of "aestheticism"--quote, unquote -which can be understood as self-involved, self-preoccupied, and indifferent to history and class struggle.

同时，托洛斯基的攻击唯美主义,他这样评价，它,唯美主义可以被理解为一种纯粹的自我欣赏，漠视历史和阶级斗争。

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Iglesias was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired in a round of dismissals last December.

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He says he fired in a fit of terror before realizing Steenkamp was inside.

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The Israeli military has said that several rockets were fired in Gaza early on Thursday.

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