The United States was a big country.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And my father is a big Frank Lloyd Wright fan, so we go all over the country to see his buildings.

我老爸是弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特的忠实粉丝，所以我们跑遍了全国去看他的建筑。

纽约的美术馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And I seemed to myself a big boned boy from the South, a country boy after all.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

He ended up on a circus sideshow traveling through the country with the big steel pipe that went through his head.

最终,在一个全国巡游的马戏团里,大钢管打烂了他的脑袋,结束了他的生命

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Changing the diet of populations is a pretty good idea and it's the kind of thing that could help individuals certainly lead healthier, happier lives, but also could change things like healthcare costs for a whole country, so these are big, big factors.

改变大众的饮食是个很好的想法,它不仅可以让人们过上更健康幸福的生活,还可以改变整个国家的医保费用,所以饮食是个非常非常重要的因素

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"What you have got is a president who has tried to do big things that are important to the country,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15