The second army was retreating, striving to effect a junction with the first army, from which-so it was said-it had been cut off by immense forces of the French.

第二军在撤退，力图与第一军会合，据说他们被法军的强大力量切断了。

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He was placed in command of the Second Army.

他被任命指挥第二军团。

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He joined the United States Army in nineteen forty-one, during the Second World War.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

On the second night, Santa Ana's army withdrew from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Most of the 1,000 graduates will serve as Army second lieutenants, many of them in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.22

Kellner was an officer of a bank in Budapest when, in June 1942--just a few days after he found out that his wife, Clara, was pregnant with George--the Nazis sent him with the Second Hungarian Army to Voronezh, Russia.

FORBES: Home Ties

Mr. Gates has also suggested that his review will take a dim view of the Marines as a "second land army" - the sort of role it has reluctantly taken on in recent years due to the fact that the Nation's "first" one, the U.S. Army, is too small to perform all that is being asked of it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Send away the Marines?

Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.

ECONOMIST: NATO��s secretary-general seeks better ties with the EU