I was fighting back the tears.

我强忍住眼泪。

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I was fighting for the emperor.

我为天皇而战。

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"Thirty years ago, I was fighting for my tomorrow. Now, I am fighting for the future of my sons," says Susan, now a mother of two, who has kept calling people's attention to climate change.

“三十年前，我在为我的明天而反抗。如今，我在为我儿子的明天而斗争。”苏珊如此说道，她现在是两个孩子的妈妈，一直呼吁人们对气候变化引起重视。

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And I think that Nancy's great sense of, you know,fighting for justice and helping others was a great inspiration."

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One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

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"I was fighting for my life, " recalls Glock, 73, during a rare interview with the press.

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"That background in government popularity and faith that Blair would deliver in the end that I was fighting against in 2001 is not there at all today so the great opportunity is now there for the Conservative Party, " he added.

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Representative JIM CLYBURN (Democrat, South Carolina): What was I fighting for back in the '60s?

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