So I asked them to let me move with Helen into a small one-room house nearby.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The House committees have approved versions that will need to be worked into a single bill.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

I am a right-wing Republican, and I like the fact that Obama has put into the White House Larry Summers, who's a ferociously smart human being and will try to do the right thing even if it offends some people.

我是一名右翼共和党人，我很高兴地看到,奥巴马任用了拉里，萨默斯,他是一个天才,他会努力去做正确的事情,而不怕得罪某些人。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

A few hours later, General Grant rode into the crossroads village of Appomattox Court House.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Rande Janus says people come into his wine store looking for macarons after they taste them at a friend's house or a party or a wedding.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

A tall stranger wrapped in a heavy coat came into the house.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

A woman had made this house into a home.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Ahead are difficult negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill President Obama would sign into law.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So far,three House committees have approved versions of health care reform, which would be melded together into a single bill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

At a briefing for White House reporters, Gibbs refused to go into specifics of the plan President Obama will unveil Friday morning at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, who was placed under house arrest and then later released on Sunday, said the protests have grown into a nationwide movement to restore the judiciary.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Brennan - who is leading a White House investigation into the incident told ABC's This Week there were bits and pieces of information about the suspect, but no definitive evidence.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Word spread about the free classes. And as more students showed up, Nesser enlisted volunteers, hired a small bus and used her own money to turn her house into a school.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

At the safe house, Barilla says he has taken matters into his own hands, employing a team of social workers and lawyers from nearby communities with the goal of assuring that the migrants know their rights as they move from country to country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

All of us have a goal for next year to have a house,a car,finish a job, get into university, open a business, have a company,we always have a goal, and in this fair of the wishes, they can get a little piece of that dream,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.01