There is no great difference, in this sense, between a crocodile defending its spot along the river and a turf war between two urban gangs.

从这个意义上说，保护其沿河地盘的鳄鱼和两个城市帮派之间的地盘之争并没有太大的区别。

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Thereupon, finding Tess unfairly browbeaten, the husbands and lovers tried to make peace by defending her; but the result of that attempt was directly to increase the war.

因此，几个丈夫和情人看见苔丝受到欺负，感到不公平，就想化解这场吵，帮着苔丝说了几句话；但是他们努力的结果，却是更加把战事激化了。

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But he is to return to the playoffs with the bulls, even in the playoffs and defending champion war seven games of facts to hit back at all the questioning.

但是他却用带领公牛重返季后赛，甚至在季后赛与卫冕冠军大战七场的事实来回击了所有的质疑。

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Today President Bush delivers the first of several speeches defending the War in Iraq.

NPR: Bush Addresses War in Iraq with Speeches

He spent very little time defending the war in Iraq, instead devoting the bulk of his time to his personal remembrances of September 11.

CNN: National security takes center stage

That had the effect of taking Shiite militias that had mostly been fighting passively on the war defending their own population centers and bringing them into the war en masse and on the offensive in ways that al-Qaeda hoped would create enough chaos in Iraq to force the Americans out.

NPR: Evaluating The Surge In Iraq