"Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," for example, is a mnemonic for recalling the colors of the visible spectrum in the right order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet).

比如，“纽约的理查德进攻失败”，就是一种按正确顺序回忆起可见光颜色(红、橙、黄、绿、蓝、靛、紫)的记忆方法。

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And that's no small humiliation for a country that gave the world English and saved Western civilization in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

作为一个为世界贡献了英语，以及在1940年的战役中拯救了西方文明的国家来说，这是一个不小的耻辱。

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But Dynasty recently gave up the battle.

不过，王朝公司最近停止了抗争。

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But these gave thanks for victories in battle during the Civil War.

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Security guards here long ago gave up the battle against graffiti.

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Bob, this may be your greatest legacy of all -- the lives you saved and the confidence you gave our men and woman in battle who knew that there was a Secretary of Defense who had their backs and who loved them and who fought for them and who did everything in his power to bring them home safe.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb and ImClone Systems settled their battle over a deal that gave Bristol the U.S. marketing rights for an experimental cancer drug, Erbitux, Tuesday night.

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