"Quiet Nights" combines the sensual beat of Brazilian bossa nova with the smooth sound of jazz.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

From 1983 to the present as you just said, the economy has a long period of smooth, robust expansion interrupted by two very mild recessions.

第二时期是从1983年至今，正如你所说，经济长时间处于,平稳强健的发展状态,而只出现了两次轻度衰退。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The "Why don't" pattern is a very polite, very smooth way to suggest something.

Why don't”句型是一种非常礼貌、流畅地提出建议的方式。

Why don't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The smells were from squids -- a favorite meal of the smooth dogfish shark.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

You could take a continuous path, where you have an infinite equilibrium points in between the two, a smooth path, whereyoudrop pressureand temperature simultaneosly in little increments.

你可以选择光滑的连续路径，在初末态间有,无数个平衡态的点，压强和温度同时一点,一点地下降。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Railroad companies employed thousands of workers to create the smooth,flat pathways required by trains.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

They like to hear the music of a smooth voice and so on.

婴儿们喜欢听到拥有平缓声音的音乐等等

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The white silk shirt and the blue and lilac tie felt cool and smooth under his fingers.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Versus the car in 1990 new and shiny and smooth.

相比1990年的很新很光滑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the 1930s, industrial designers began to make cars and other objects with smooth, curving lines.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

So if there's any systematic bias going on in the way these things get graded it'll smooth itself out across the teaching fellows, so we'll have a fair grading system and things.

所以,如果在评分过程中,有任何系统性误差,都会由助教们尽量纠正过来,这样就有了公平的评分系统

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Warhol used a very smooth painting method so the artwork almost did not look hand-made.

VOA: special.2010.09.05

You've got to spend the time to make sure that everything is well defined before you start trying to work out these problem More about the path. There are a couple ways you could go through that pass If I look at this smooth path here.

你要花时间确认,在你开始尝试解题前,切已经被很好地定义,关于路径还有些问题,你可以用两种不同的方式经过这条路径,看这条平滑的路径。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The drink is made by combining different fruits into a smooth and tasty thick liquid.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The researchers studied small sharks called smooth dogfish, common to America's New England coast.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

The printmaker first draws an image onto a smooth piece of wood.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

One sailor described the sea as being as smooth as glass.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Fred Barnes, editor of The Weekly Standard magazine "Obama,while a glib and smooth speaker, is not particularly persuasive,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The general also reports smooth operations at the Port-au-Prince airport, which has been under U.S.control since Friday by agreement with the Haitian government.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

"I think the tragedy is he had to compromise upon the attempts to clear his name in order to smooth the path home to Libya,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

But the process of getting it is not always smooth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

During that time, while on tour in Europe and Southeast Asia, he decided to stray from his usual regimen of smooth jazz and focus on the jazz classics he heard growing up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12