On January twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-eight, a man named James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the territory of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

So coming to the aid of an oppressed kinsman, Moses kills an Egyptian, And he has to flee to the territory of Midian.

为帮助受压迫的同族人，摩西杀了一个埃及人，他必须逃到米甸去。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.

彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉,沿着里海扩张,吞并着土耳其的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Hobbes in the Hobbesian doctrine of sovereignty, or the Hobbesian sovereign, to have a complete monopoly of power within his given territory.

在他的君主学说，或是霍布斯式的君主论中，霍布斯认为，在特定的领土中,存在着一种绝对的权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

New trouble threatened to break out in the territory of Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He rejects the idea that the city is defined simply by a group of people who inhabit a common territory the same space as it were.

他拒绝将城市简单定义为,一群人住在同一领土上的概念,即同一空间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The rate is as high as eighty percent among women in the territory of American Samoa.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

Roosevelt moved to a ranch in the Dakota territory of the American West.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Alaska became an official territory of the United States in nineteen twelve.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

He promised strong support for expanding the territory of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Many did not know anything about the American territory of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

He would make the new territory of California a free state.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

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

That agreement also called for 8,000 marines to be moved off Okinawa, to the U.S.territory of Guam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The territory of Somaliland declared independence last central government collapsed, but has yet to be recognized as its own state by the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Pacific island territory of Guam. The move,aimed at reducing noise and other complaints of the so-called U.S."footprint" on Okinawa will be underwritten with nearly $3 billion provided from Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

In an attempt to show they are serious about supporting a solution to the protracted Cyprus problem, Britain has renewed an offer to cede about half the territory of its bases in Cyprus.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Other than Mr.Museveni and Zambia's President Banda, the only other African Union member state presidents to sign the IDP convention were Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mohammed Abdelaziz of the territory of Western Sahara,and Somalia's Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"Where I think this film goes beyond what I usually expect of films like this is it creates this really in-depth,rich,complex relationship between these people and also this complex relationship that goes into the territory of nightmarish parenting."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Most of the people who wrote the books had no idea at all where the Canadian Yukon Territory was.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Buchanan told him that slavery in the territory must be decided on the votes of the people of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

This law kept slavery out of the northern part of the territory which the United States bought from France.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

So they took an extreme step. They formed their own government in opposition to the elected government of the territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

But he believed that the people of a territory had the right to make their own decision to accept or reject slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16