One such material is asphalt, a substance often placed on top of buildings and used to cover road surfaces.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But if you come to a road region, you've, not got to be dangerous about it,

但是，如果你去小道上骑，你就不会有这样的危险，

我使用自行车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Or visitors can drive a twenty-nine kilometer long road, stopping off at different points to enjoy the colorful formations.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

I kind of knew what I was doing when I walked down that road but anyway-you need to have a mix, even in a big company, of smaller entrepreneurial projects, bigger entrepreneurial projects.

当我开始创业的时候，只是了解一星半点,但是你们需要把各种事物综合来看，即使在大公司也是这样，把类型不同的创业共同对待。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

The females make huge webs, sometimes large enough to hang between trees on either side of a rural road.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

We'll devote a whole class to that down the road just a bit.

我们会用一整节课来简单讨论这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The students developed a device for cars to collect information on road conditions, driving behavior and traffic incidents.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

As I say, you are very close to Portobello Road. And you could have a...

正如我说的，你离波托贝洛大街很近。然后你可以……

《诺丁山》拍摄地点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It combines a tax cut for employers and spending for road projects in an effort to reduce unemployment.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The way we're going to model differentiated products is to imagine, just to take a simple example, imagine a city and this city has one long straight road through it.

我们建立差异产品模型的方法,想象一下,举个简单的例子,想象一个被一条直路贯穿的城市

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He decided to tie one end of the road to what remained of a tree in the ground.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Once you're doing this on your own, -- especially, for example, on exam 2, which is a ways down the road, you won't be able to look at those steps, so you need to make sure that you can go through them without looking at them, but for now we can look at them as we are actually learning how to draw the Lewis structures, and rather just go through them step-by-step, it's more interesting to do it with an example.

每当你要画一个路易斯结构的时候，特别是，比如，在第二次考试中，在不远的将来，你将看不到这张表，因此你需要确保自己在不看这张表,的情况下也能按照上面的流程来画，但是目前我们是可以看着这张表,来学习如何画路易斯结构的，而相比于一步一步地讲，通过例子来演示一下会更有意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Nikki Grimes is a children's writer and poet whose works include "Jazmin's Notebook" and "The Road to Paris."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

So O'Connor is giving us a version of the road, and I want you to keep this in mind because of course we're going to read On the Road, and we are going to see a major road trip in Lolita, actually two of them. So the iconography of the American road is something that is going to come back to us.

奥康纳让我们看到了一种版本的路，我希望你们将它在心里,因为我们肯定要读《在路上》,也会在《洛丽塔》里,看到一次重要的公路旅行，事实上，是两次,之后我们还会看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It means to travel or to leave a place, as suggested in this song, "Hit the Road."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

He lived in the summers on a country estate outside St. Petersburg, in a beautiful chateau. And his uncle owned the chateau down the road, and actually left it to him when he was a very young man.

夏天的时候他住在圣彼得堡外漂亮的乡村城堡，那是他叔叔的城堡，并在Naboko很小的时候就把它送给了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We have entered a private road that leads to the main house on the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

He sat down at the side of the road and wrote a telegram to Secretary Stanton.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The government agreed to close a road used by whites to cross the hunting grounds.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

They built a large road from Boulder City to the area of the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

"And now,with this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

a young man called out cheerfully. "How far is it to the main road?"

VOA: special.2010.04.03

You can drive your car slowly up a rough road to the top.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Visitors to Hoover Dam drive on a small road that passes Lake Mead.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

"Worst. The worst was also the funnest, 'cause I got up early Thanksgiving day and we went to the Burwick Marathon, but it's a nine-mile road race.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

He says it occurred to him one day that he should make a road trip to help the needy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

A police convoy heading to Kandahar for the offensive was attacked eight times by insurgents on the road.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

"If it is a yes it will remove one of the last remaining obstacles on the road to ratification of the treaty,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

But,on Thursday, the 61-year-old Taylor rejected the allegations of a prosecution witness who said Taylor had transported arms to Sierra Leone by road.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31