This new ministry was being created with zero assets and zero liabilities.

这个新部门当时是以零资产零负债进行创建。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement.

外交部已断然否认与此有任何牵连。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The firm has a cosy relationship with the Ministry of Defence.

这家公司与国防部关系默契。

《牛津词典》

Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, who led the study for the Thai Ministry of Public Health,called it a scientific breakthrough.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Russia's Foreign Ministry praised the exchange,saying, "The action was taken in the general context of improved Russian-U.S.relations."

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Companies need to realize that local officials saying something is OK and ministry-level officials giving the green light are not the same thing.

FORBES

It would approve new press licenses - a task previously performed by the justice ministry - and impose fines for libel, the cabinet said.

BBC: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (archive shot)

In 2007, President Sarkozy suggested the finance ministry - which had been overseeing the dispute and was led by Ms Lagarde - should move the case to arbitration.

BBC: French court questions IMF chief Christine Lagarde