Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word farm was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.
VOA: special.2010.01.31
By the way, in what I'm saying, I oversimplify by supposing that the basic unit of language is a word.
因为我想说的是,我们现在是把语言的基本单位简单化了。
It is an electron beam. In the 1890s, the latter part of the 19th century a very fashionable word was "ray."
那是个电子束,在十九世纪九十年代,就是19世纪末,一个很时髦的词汇-“光线“
The dictionary says that the word "mosaic" means a picture or design that is made by placing small colored pieces together.
VOA: special.2009.01.02
That caused a rebellion and they overthrew the kings, and thereafter, the word king was a dirty word in Roman history.
该事件引发了叛乱,叛军推翻了国王,从此之后,"国王"这个词在罗马历史上成了一个脏字
For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Because a product has the word 'fruit' in its name doesn't necessarily mean it actually has fruit in it.
因为即使产品名称中带"水果"二字,产品中也不一定含有水果
But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
VOA: special.2009.04.19
Why does he begin with this? "I went down," "catabasis" a going down. The Greek word for this is catabasis.
他为何要以这句开头?,“我南降“,降的希腊文是。
She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.
VOA: special.2009.07.18
There's no language in the world that has a rule that says the fifth word has to be a verb.
世界上并没有语言规定,说第五个词必须是动词
The word comes from the word "Arab" and is a design term used to describe flowing lines and geometric patterns.
VOA: special.2009.03.11
Now the word theory has a very complicated etymological history that I won't trouble you with.
理论这个词的词源非常复杂,你们不需要了解。
No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.
VOA: special.2010.01.03
Its name is malloc for memory allocation and what malloc does for us is we say, hmm, the user has typed in a three-letter word.
它为我们分配内存地址,它为用户输入的3个字母单词,分配地址。
The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.
VOA: special.2009.08.17
It has been argued, and I think this is a brilliant point, that the most important word in Paradise Lost is or, the conjunction.
或者广受争议的,我个人认为是出色的一个想法,即中最重要的词就是这个连词,或者。
He decreed that anyone found guilty of using the word Frisco must pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars.
VOA: special.2009.12.14
Microsoft Bob was kind of like a low end Word processor and spreadsheet but the screen look like a house and this dog walked around and talked to you about writing your book reports or something.
那是一款类似于,低端文档处理器和数据表,的产品,但是屏幕,看起来像个房子,还有狗走来走去和你对话,写书或者报告。
Then,on April twenty-fifth, General Taylor received word that a large Mexican force had crossed the border a few kilometers up the river.
VOA: special.2009.02.26
Most languages around the world have a different word for luck and risk--or luck and fortune.
世上的大多数语言,对运气和风险,或者说运气和机遇,都有另一种表达方式
She also said that after she writes the last word, she goes back later,re-reads the story and then writes a new version.
VOA: special.2011.03.18
Because I thought about it a lot Welles chose that word I guess obviously that frame was a happy picture ? In the word? Why that word?
因为我对这个问题想了很多,为什么威尔斯要选择这个词,我觉得很明显,这个镜头是幸福的,词内涵的深意?还是为什么选这个词?
"Terroir" is the word used to describe how a vineyard's soil and climate give a wine special qualities.
VOA: special.2010.10.13
It's not just the religious instant of looking down at San Narciso; it's the religious sense of the capitalized Word that comes back a couple of times towards the end of the novel, the epileptic Word.
这还是在书的尾端;,出现了很多次的大写的“Word“,癫痫的“Word“,大写的“Word“指的是。
In eighteen seventy-two, a famous American word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word.
VOA: special.2010.08.08
But the problem is if you use the word "Language" impossibly, incredibly broadly, then from a scientific point of view it becomes useless to ask interesting questions about it.
但问题是,如果你无限宽泛地使用"语言"一词,那么从科学的角度来看,探究语言就变得毫无意义了
Although Clemente had not signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he kept his word to the team.
VOA: special.2010.04.11
But the word white shows up a lot in the high glycemic index foods -white rice, white spaghetti, white bread.
但是白色这个词会在,许多高血糖指数的食物中出现,白米,白面条,白面包
Torah And this is an acronym. The T stands for Torah, which is a word that means instruction or teaching.
这还是个首字母缩写词,T代表,是指示或教义的意思。
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