The scientists on Antarctica know better than anyone about the effects of pollution and human behavior on this important treasure of a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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His efforts helped prove that Antarctica was in fact a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He spent a considerable amount of time on the European continent with his young tutee, Mr. Cavandish.

他花了大量时间,和学生研究欧洲大陆，他的学生也就是卡文迪许。

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Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Machiavelli, you remember, claimed to have discovered a new continent, new modes and orders.

马基雅维利，被认为是,发现了一块新的领域，新的模式和秩序。

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They gave a name to this mysterious continent: Terra Australis Incognita, or the "Unknown Southern Land."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

But he was looking for a much larger continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"So I don't think we're going to see a lot of deployment in a region or continent like Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Easterbrook began collecting African-related Obama items on a trip to the continent in 2007, when then Senator Obama was running for president.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

The president said Ghana has become an example for the rest of the continent a country where development is spurred by good governance.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Africa,with already severe weather conditions and a poor population largely dependent on subsistence farming, is considered to be the continent most threatened by climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The title means a lot to the entire continent, said Ghana coach Sellas Tetteh.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

August in Australia culminated in a record-breaking heat-wave across much of the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Despite recent wet weather across much of the continent, climatologists warn that a looming El Nino pattern could bring drier conditions to Australia in the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"It is a bridge between races, cultures and religions of the continent."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

He said his position was based, in part, on a World Health Organization report that outlined the many health problems facing South Africa and other nations on the continent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

"We believe that South Africa has so much more economic potential and it cannot exist as an island of relative prosperity amid a sea of untapped opportunity elsewhere on the continent,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

His calls for Arab nationalism largely ignored, he turned his attention south, leading a call for a United States of Africa, and being named "king of kings" by tribal leaders on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

That tournament is the final warm-up in a series designed by FIFA to highlight the hosting capacities of the African continent leading up to the World Cup, which kicks off next June in Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

A long-standing drought, along with recent devastating bushfires and widespread floods have given some scientists more reason to think that the vast continent is likely to be one of the countries hardest hit by a shifting climate.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Started in 1987 as a way to bring national attention to Texas musicians like Schneider, South by Southwest is a now week-long event with performers from every continent arriving in Austin, trying to get the attention of booking agents,managers, publishers,record labels, radio presenters,critics and others in the music industry.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07