He had commanded the Continental Army in America's successful fight for independence from Britain.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

He writes home, "I do not intend to shirk now that there is really something to fight for; I mean freedom.

他在家书中道,"我不打算逃避,我必须为之一战,为自由而战

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For example, if your son got in a fight with his sister and you're very concerned about him,

例如，如果你的儿子跟他的妹妹打了起来，你对他很是担心，

I need 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Republican Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts led the Senate fight for the treaty.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Because that's really gonna be a... everybody's kind of lining up for ACLU, and focus on the family, and are already gearing up this big fight.

因为这真的会造成。,每个人都与美国公民联合会站在同一条战线上，都以家庭为重心，并且已经在将这场战斗升级。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And slavery supporters gave up the fight for Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The Carthaginians, in fact, and the Greeks will have to fight the Carthaginians over the years for control of the island of Sicily.

实际上,迦太基人,而在接下来的历史里,为了争夺西西里岛,古希腊人与他们进行了长年的战争

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Cuban rebels had started a fight for independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury drew their pistols I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday."

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Because there, it's not known for dive bars with cheap beers and pin darts and, you know, people getting in a bar fight.

因为那里不是因有便宜的啤酒和针头飞镖的廉价酒吧和酒吧打架闹事而闻名。

如果想去俱乐部 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Musabih has led a sometimes solitary effort to help fight for the rights of victims of human trafficking in Dubai.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

You cannot imagine, it seems to me, in the world that Hesiod describes, Achilles or anybody else saying, "Well, you insulted me and so I'm not going to fight anymore for my polis."

对我来说,你无法想象,在赫西奥德描述的世界中,阿喀琉斯或其他人说,"好吧,你侮辱了我,因此我不会再为我的城邦作战"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Her writing of the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking Romanian village spoke of corruption and repression and her fight for free speech.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

So, I think that became-- and whatever the reality was, that story was always being told, that's the way for a man to fight; anything other than that is open to suspicion.

所以我认为,无论现实是怎样的,那个故事总是被讲述着,那才是男人的战斗方式,其他的方式就会受到猜疑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

People walked thirty-two kilometers a day for three days to increase public awareness and raise money to fight breast cancer.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The Global Fund has approved proposals for more than nineteen billion dollars to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Still,it says, there is an immediate need for the international community to continue and increase its investment in the fight against malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Some call it "the last best chance" for an agreement to fight climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

He called for more severe measures to fight terrorism.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

He gave Smiley a look that said he was sorry for fighting a dog that did not have any back legs for him to hold, which he needed to win a fight.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"Waziristan is full of narrow valleys and barren mountains and it's a God-given country for any guerilla to fight in,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

PEPFAR,the U.S.President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are the main contributors.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

She says the media attention given to Campbell's testimony is a boon for the fight against conflict diamonds.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"The violence was initiated by those hardcore Turkish activists who came here looking for a fight.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

A Washington landmark, Dupont Circle, became ground zero for a massive, friendly snowball fight that was organized on Twitter and other social networking sites.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The final tally in Japan's largest local election set the stage for the national political fight.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

He said ZANU-PF and the ANC "fought together in the trenches" for liberation and must continue to fight against what he called Western imperialism.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04