Tampa slumbered as a little fishing village while East Coast beach towns began to boom as vacation resorts in the late 1800s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

And that was the case in our village because there wasn't a bridge across the river, and there was a little boat would take people across this awesome, swirling,dangerous river.

那就是我们村的情况,在河面上没有桥,那儿有一条小船可以载人通过那条,水波滔天的危险的河

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.

现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In this eye clinic in Andipatti village in Tamil Nadu state, patients are seeing things a little differently.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25