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The next morning Grant attacked in his turn and slowly but surely pushed the Confederates off the field. 第二天早晨他反攻南方军，当然，他击退了南方军。 Halleck then united Grant's, Buell's, and Pope's armies and captured Corint

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I have told you of a White Sea and a Black Sea. Here is a Red Sea. It is a long, narrow sea bordering Arabia. 我介绍过白海和黑海，现在要讲红海了，它是与阿拉伯毗连的一个狭长的海。 I don't know why it's called Red, unl

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But the pass had been lost and the greater part of Greece fell into the hands of the Persians. They marched upon Athens, threw the garrison from the rocks of the Acropolis and burned the city. The people fled to the Island of Salamis. All seemed lost

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If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes. 如果这个臆测是对的话，那么，请想一想那种最难解而又最具有破坏力的种种原质所提供的那