The victims were mostly Shi'ite muslims, in what appears to be a bid to set off further sectarian warfare.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

One is the bid, which is what they'll pay you for a Treasury bill if you want to sell to them.

一个是买入价,就是买方愿意支付给卖方的报价,如果你想卖给他们的话

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If you're a dealer, you've got to keep your bid-ask at market; otherwise, you'll get only one side or the other, right?

如果你是中间商,你的出价必须与市场一致,否则就只能拆东补西

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United Nations,Israeli, and Lebanese commanders met in South Lebanon in a bid to ease tensions, following the deadliest border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.

人们会担心弥尔顿认为光与上帝差不多的想法,过于胆大妄为，或许是极恶的,当然，第四卷里的撒旦,也会祈求光明。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Oil has not been sighted at the research farm yet. A few weeks after the spill, BP placed booms around it, in a bid to protect the facility.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

They convicted us of guilt; Bid me strike a match and blow.

他们宣告我们有罪；,让我划一根火柴把火吹着。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Treasury chief Timothy Geithner is discussing European measures to stabilize the ailing euro currency in a bid to reassure markets the crisis will not spread throughout the eurozone.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Think of this as a grade bid.

把这看成成绩的赌注

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Saberi's father Reza, who is visiting Tehran with his wife Akiko, in a bid to win her release,sounded pleased that his daughter finally agreed to end her hunger strike.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time; Arise and bid me strike a match And strike another till time catch; Should the conflagration climb, Run till all the sages know.

天真者和美丽者,除了时光没有敌人；,起来，让我划一根火柴,再划一根，直到时光点燃；,假如大火升腾，就奔跑，直到所有圣贤都知道。

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Iran is played host to a high-profile summit of two key war-torn neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a bid to put an end to conflicts that rage along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Normally, when you have a dealer, the dealer has a-- when we talk in terms of price the dealer has an ask, which is higher than the bid.

一般来讲,当你和中间商交易的时候,如果以价格形式谈论,中间商的买入价,会比卖出价高

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Sounds of heavy and light machine gun fire rattled Maiduguri as Nigeria's army pounded suspected hideouts of the Islamic rebels in a bid to flush out remnants of the militant Boko Haram sect.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

People have crowded onto trains, buses and ferries in a bid to carry out their travel plans - and cab companies say they are being paid thousands of dollars to ferry people across Europe by car.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

Six years ago, South Africa won its bid to become the first African nation to host a football World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Improving the quality of the boots was a requirement to be able to bid for the military contract.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

But Eroglu supports a two-state confederation, which could negatively impact Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In New Jersey, Democratic Governor Jon Corzine was rejected in his bid for a second term,losing to Republican Christopher Christie, a former federal prosecutor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Turkey's bid to join the European Union hinges on a peace deal in Cyprus.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

That accord mandated by the U.S.Congress is a necessary prerequisite for American aerospace firms to bid on a pending Indian purchase of 126 multi-role fighter jets, potentially the largest-ever arms sale.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Some of the local residents in Searchlight did not like the fact that outsiders had come in to target Senator Reid, who faces a difficult re-election bid this year, in part,because of his work in guiding the divisive health care reform bill through Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28