《后汉书·本纪·孝献帝纪》
初平元年春季正月，山东州郡起兵讨伐董卓。
初平元年春正月，山东州郡起兵以讨董卓。
In the spring of the first year of the Chuping era, troops were raised in the prefectures of Shandong to attack Dong Zhuo.
<s>[INST] For the given Classical Chinese excerpt: 初平元年春正月，山东州郡起兵以讨董卓。, detail the steps needed to accurately translate it into English. [/INST]

* Step 1: Identify the individual words and their parts of speech.
* Step 2: Determine the grammatical structure of the sentence.
* Step 3: Translate the individual words into English.
* Step 4: Reconstruct the English sentence according to the grammatical structure of the original Chinese sentence.

**Completed English translation**: In the spring of the first year of the Chuping era, troops were raised in the prefectures of Shandong to attack Dong Zhuo.</s>
For the given Classical Chinese excerpt: 初平元年春正月，山东州郡起兵以讨董卓。, detail the steps needed to accurately translate it into English.
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* Step 1: Identify the individual words and their parts of speech.
* Step 2: Determine the grammatical structure of the sentence.
* Step 3: Translate the individual words into English.
* Step 4: Reconstruct the English sentence according to the grammatical structure of the original Chinese sentence.

**Completed English translation**: In the spring of the first year of the Chuping era, troops were raised in the prefectures of Shandong to attack Dong Zhuo.
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