Over the past few decades,however, scientists have determined that even trace amounts of lead in children's bodies leads to long-term neurological and behavioral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

That's why I turned more serious even than you did, deeper in the soul, " when the corpse was carried past us The poem is called Separation.

所以我才如此严肃，甚至更胜于你，至灵魂的深处，当尸体被从我们身边运过,这首诗叫做《分离》

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One former federal prosecutor involved in past terrorism cases predicts that it is likely that the 9/11 terror trial will not even begin for another two years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

As in other cases during the past few years, average travelers are now the ones paying the price by spending even more time in international airport terminals and undergoing increased screening, while security officials attempt to figure out just went wrong and who was responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28