During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Now I didn't use--no hands-- that was just the notes that are naturally on the twelve and a half-foot length of vibrating air.

我没有用手控制,都是十二个半英尺高的震动空气柱,自然产生的音符

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This weird temporal disjunction is an important part of the poem, and it not only gives the poem its peculiar air of something like a conceptual time-warp, but it's an important part of Milton's profoundly anticipatory imagination.

这个古怪的暂时的脱节是诗歌中很重要的一部分，它不仅带给诗歌一种不寻常的感觉,就像概念性的时光隧道，但他确实是弥尔顿,深奥的预言性想象的重要部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

At about nineteen-thousand meters, the air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that a person needs a lot of special equipment to survive.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

From high in the air, visitors can clearly see the third area of the park -- a high broad flat rock known as the Island in the Sky.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

His father was a high-level air force officer in the Pakistani military.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The lowest-priced version does not include a radio or air conditioning.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

The letters H-E-P-A represent the words High Efficiency Particulate Air.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

It was carried into the air by a B-52 bomber.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

"Mr.Vice President, Mr.Speaker,members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: "Yesterday,December seventh,nineteen forty-one -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

He was a fighter pilot during the war,then served in the post-war Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Alperovich greeted the younger Powers in Moscow with a long and firm handshake at the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Company, which designed the weapon.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Before the meeting Pope Benedict celebrated a large open-air mass in Valletta, attended by thousands of people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

State-owned media quote the president as saying he is dissatisfied with this month's global-warming summit in Copenhagen, calling it "a lot of hot air."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

It involves moving thousands of U.S.forces stationed on Okinawa, building a new air base and re-locating some of the troops to Guam, among other aspects.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

The incident raised fears of another war. In 2006,a deadly cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerrillas sparked a 34-day Israeli air and ground assault on Lebanon.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The B-1 is a strategic bomber that was not originally designed to provide direct air support to ground forces, which was the mission in this instance.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

A U.S.Air Force spokesman described the maneuvers of pilots aboard its F-15e Strike Eagle.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Dr.Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index - a U.S.government assessment of pollutants in the air.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It's a textile center and home to the nation's biggest open-air tobacco market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The M-ATVs are also a major logistical challenge. The Pentagon transports them by air in order to meet the high demand, adding a 10-percent premium to the vehicle's cost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

Although the revised plan involves anti-ballistic missiles installed at a former air base in Poland, defense experts say Moscow perceives the new project as less threatening to its security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Allen Hershkowitz with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group, says air quality around landfill sites must be carefully checked when oil-contaminated waste is added to normal household trash.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Bigger livestock herds are putting greater pressure on land resources and disrupting some ecosystems and the animals generate significant amounts of water and air pollution, including methane, a climate-changing greenhouse gas.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The volcano has sent a massive cloud of microscopic ash particles swirling across northern Europe - particles that air specialists say are highly abrasive and could cause aircraft engines to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

A military official tells VOA the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, traveled to Germany Friday for an unannounced half-day meeting on a U.S.Air Base with the Afghanistan commander, General Stanley McChrystal.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Speaking to reporters Friday, Secretary Gates would not be drawn publicly into the debate over whether the troop-intensive counterinsurgency strategy is best or whether a more limited commitment involving air strikes and Special Forces operations would be better.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"It is going to be a big anti-incumbent year, and a big anti-Washington year, and what is still left a little bit up in the air after last night is how much that anti-incumbent wave, how disproportionately that anti-incumbent wave, will wash over the Democrats."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19