After a discussion, it was decided that each country would keep a small group of soldiers on the island.

经过讨论，决定每个国家在岛上保留一小群士兵。

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His mother was taken along a corridor by the soldiers and into a roomat the end through a big, heavy steel door with bars across the small glasswindow.

他妈妈被士兵们带进走廊尽头的一间房间里，要走到那里需穿过一扇笨重的大铁门，门上有个小玻璃窗，玻璃窗上还焊着几根铁条。

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The commander of the naval force, Captain [Gustavus] Fox, had hoped to move the soldiers to Sumter in small boats. But the sea was so rough that the small boats could not be used.

美国海军的司令官古斯塔夫·福克斯上校原希望利用小船将士兵运送到萨姆特堡，但这里的海面非常凶涌，这样的小船根本无法使用。

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Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.

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Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

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The commander of the naval force, Captain Fox, had hoped to move the soldiers to Sumter in small boats.

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The U.S. military plans to use the prototype with a small group of soldiers first before deciding whether to expand its use of the technology, Taussig said.

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It doesn't take an enormous effort to attack small numbers of soldiers every week, and the international jihad network has opted to support the fight against the coalition in Iraq, making Iraq the central battlefield now in the global war on terrorism.

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But even then, the planned total of 12 companies or approximately 2, 400 fighting soldiers looks small given the vast area they must cover.

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