Lincoln spoke with honor of the war dead at Gettysburg, saying, "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

林肯高度赞颂在葛底斯堡之战中捐躯的将士，他说：“我们在这里说些什么，世人不会注意，也不会长期记住，但是英雄们的行动却永远不会被人遗忘”。

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Americans are pausing Monday to honor the country's war dead, as the United States observes its annual Memorial day.

星期一是美国的阵亡将士纪念日。美国民众在全国各地以各种方式纪念为国捐躯的阵亡将士。

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The president told the audience at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville that the United States has an obligation to its latest war dead.

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Here, war refuses to let the dead lie in peace, with the notion that not even the dead are safe from it, unaffected by it.

在这里战争拒绝让死者安静的躺着,有一种信念认为即使是死者是安全的，不受其影响的。

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The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

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In more recent centuries, governments paid for public memorials, particularly to honor their war dead.

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The Queen led the nation's tributes to the war dead at the annual service of remembrance in London.

BBC: Northern Ireland honours war dead

The bell of the destroyer HMS Verdun, which served in WWI, was rung twice in honour of the war dead.

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