Just because a bird does not breed one year, it does not follow that it will fail the next.

不能仅仅因为鸟一年没有繁殖就推断它下一年也不会繁殖。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear because a bullet had been fired through a window.

我坐在地板上吓得浑身发抖，因为有一颗子弹射穿窗户打了进来。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The Court of Appeal threw out a drug conviction today because a juror did not understand English.

该上诉法院今天做出了一个毒品犯罪判决，因为一位陪审团成员不懂英语。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The book says the saying began because a competitor's face was cleaned with a cloth towel or other material.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

Please don't, if you are up here, become complacent because a month from now we will have another test.

如果你考得不错的话，请不要自满,因为在一个月后我们将还有一次测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

because a lot of those things... the only way that you can account for them is by using fair value,

因为当中很多东西……你能估计它们价值的唯一方式就是使用公允价值，

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That was a nutty answer, and not just because a crash arrived soon after.

FORBES: Rational Expectations

She collapsed in her cell, bleeding, and survived only because a prison guard discovered her.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

And the reason we did it was because a lot of VA facilities had gotten outdated.

WHITEHOUSE: Discussing the Economy in Albuquerque