They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

In Yeats people are always particulars who are fitted to types which are new versions of old identities that travel across time.

在他的诗歌里人总是特定的,某些类型，是穿越时间的,古老人物的现代化身。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

She was, I don't know, ninety and she married some sixty-year-old Confederate veteran at some point in time.

她大概有,大概有,九十岁,她在某个时期嫁给了一个,六十岁的南部邦联老兵

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Rounder is a major label that specializes in roots music, including bluegrass and old-time country.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

The same thing happens in the 1870s, there's a revival of that old time religion, and it's helped by various miracles and that kind of thing, but which I'll talk about in the lecture on religion, which is kind of fun--it's fun to do.

十九世纪七十年代发生了同样的事情,那时候旧时代的宗教复兴了,而它得益于许多神迹之类的,但那是我在宗教讲座上要讨论的东西,那会很有趣的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

What time that would save her in always repairing old stockings!

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The 32-year-old rapper, who swiftly dropped from sight after his MTV incident in September, is a 12-time Grammy Award winner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Efforts to strengthen math and science education come at a time when 15-year-old U.S.students rank 25th in math literacy and 30th in science literacy -- among the 57 countries participating in the Program for International Student Assessment.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10