This means that you can rise above your problems if you have a goal and work very hard.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

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It covers all things that involve the heart and define the effort of man to rise above the mechanical process of life."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Scientists believe strong earthquakes forced the bottom of the sea to rise above the water.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

"We need a voice and we need somebody to speak for us and rise above partisan politics, just go to the people."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

In the face of the great threat posed by HIV/AIDS, we have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Johnson says that the Buffalo Soldiers learned to keep their tempers under control, because if they didn't rise above a conflict, they'd be court-martialed and lose their jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

All agreed that global temperatures should not rise by more than an average of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The walls of Black Canyon rise almost two hundred forty-three meters above the river.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The nesting grounds for pelicans, gulls and other water foul, they rise less than 30 centimeters above sea level.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Many of the islands that make up the Maldives rise little more than one meter above sea level, and could disappear under the sea if global temperatures continue to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09