Senator Joseph Lieberman, who calls himself an Independent but caucuses with Democrats, says the legislation is part of a process in which the United States and its allies "turn the page" toward finding more common ground on Iran and setting specific benchmarks with global enforcement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Earth seems to be a pretty good inertial system, because on the ground, you leave something, it stays there.

地球看上去是个不错的惯性系,因为什么东西放在地上,都会保持静止

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Controllers on the ground joked that the flight had gone so well they did not have enough to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Perhaps that will stop her crying. I walked to where the Princess Dejah Thoris was lying on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Clearly, if I take a chalk like this one here, and I throw it on the ground, and it breaks in little pieces, if I run the movie backwards that doesn't make sense, right?

很清楚，如果我拿一支这样的粉笔，把它扔到地上，它会摔成碎片，如果我们把这个场景倒过来放映,那是没有意义的，对吧？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

we "put both feet squarely on the ground" of the Eiffel Tower, we're liberated from the idea that somehow or another it's a governing presence.

如果，我们将，“双脚平放于地面“，站在埃菲尔铁塔上，我们就摆脱了,它是一种支配性的存在的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They also suggest actions like providing protective boots to wear while working in fields, and not sleeping on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

But even so, he says, the animal's life is to be treated with reverence, and the blood which is the life essence must be poured out on the ground, returned to God, not consumed.

即便如此，上帝仍认为，动物的生命应当被尊重，而作为生命重要元素的血，应当倒在地上,不应当引用，而是应该归还上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The observers on the ground had no reason to believe the white spot they saw was made by the spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

First, take the case in the elevator is on the ground floor of some building and completely addressed.

首先我们来看看电梯,在一楼时候的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

His tall hat flew off and soldiers found it on the ground with a bullet hole through it.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

On December eighteenth, ground controllers asked Borman and Lovell if they were ready to come home.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

People cannot feel slow earthquakes on the ground, and instruments like seismometers cannot measure them.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

and with the many international partners and aid organizations that are now on the ground."

VOA: special.2010.01.16

When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not have our noses in the air.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It sits flat on the ground with the bottom open to the earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Those were the words from the flight director on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

"But the actual negotiations of the loan conditions on the ground is done by technocratic economists, staff members at the IMF, and they're going to continue to do their job."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

He put them on the ground near my feet.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The expression is "both feet on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It was just lying on the ground. All you had to do was go to Alaska, and then to the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory of Canada and collect your gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"Social networking allowed Iranians throughout the world to become participants in a movement that was going on, on the ground."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"They have actually been there, they have done it, they have lived on the ground with those people in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

On May,22 they even launched a ground attack on Kandahar air field, NATO's sprawling military base outside the city.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Mr.Ban says he will visit some of the hardest hit areas, including the conflict zone, to assess conditions on the ground .

VOA: standard.2009.05.19