The war began with overnight air raids on Baghdad and Kuwait.

这场战争以对巴格达和科威特的连夜空袭开始。

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A Sheffield girl—two when the war began; eight when it finished—remembers asking in her letter to Santa Claus for “any little thing you can spare.”

一个谢菲尔德市的女孩——当战争开始时她只有两岁,而战争结束时已经八岁了——还记得在她写给圣诞老人的信里请求得到“任何你能够匀出来的小东西。”

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NATO says separate attacks have killed five of its service members in Afghanistan, continuing the deadliest year for coalition forces since the war began nine years ago.

北约说，在阿富汗的几起袭击造成它的五名士兵丧生，继续使今年成为自九年前战争开始以来联军死亡人数最多的一年。

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Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph.

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Thomas was born in 1878, so he was thirty-six when the war began.

托马斯于1878年出生，战争开始的时候他36岁。

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He began, almost at the same time as the war began, to write poems.

在战争刚刚开始的时候他就开始写诗。

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Three years after the war began, the U.S. military has learned hard lessons in Iraq.

NPR: Shift in Tactics Seen as Vital to U.S. Victory in Iraq

We have been here going on five days now, a few days before the war began.

CNN: Kevin Sites: Kurds see bombing on northern Iraqi positions

As the war began, Garthley was injured in an explosion and airlifted back to Britain.

NPR: British Treatment of Injured Soldiers Questioned