Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare arms, raised one knee. "Carry me upstairs, please. I feel sort of romantic tonight."

在自家的门厅里，欢迎的灯光大亮，洛丽塔脱下,套衫，摇摇晶光闪亮的头发，向我伸出两只裸露的胳膊，抬起一直膝盖：“请抱我上楼去，我觉得今晚有些,浪漫，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But she decided to take three months off from work at an advertising company to visit her birthplace,India.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

For example, you might hear a student say to her friend that her spelling test was "as easy as falling off a log."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

The woman torn off her apron and tried to beat out the fire with the cloth.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Criticism falls off her like water off a duck's back.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Officers found Aasiya Zubair Hassan with her head cut off.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

But now they accept it. But Oloria may soon be forced to take off her face veil in public.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"Mansineedof" from Sarah Jarosz; and Alison Brown's "Under The (Five) Wire" off her CD "The Company You Keep."

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

On Friday,Galina Petrovna, a 64-year-old Moscow nanny, let her two year old charge cool off with a dip in a public fountain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Milly Probst,a former call center manager, told us her experience and salary history are scaring off potential employers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

On Sunday, her employers are going to Italy - to cool off.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

In Arkansas, centrist Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln failed to win a majority of votes in the primary against a left-leaning challenger, and is headed to a June run-off for her party's nomination.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19