"The legal issues that we expect to be mainly dealing with are expected to cover divorce, alimony,social welfare, child custody,inheritance and compensation, or property recovery so they either have the means to put a roof over their head or go back to their former homes,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

He said Americans would always build a house but then move before they put a roof on it.

他说,美国人盖房子,总是在还没有盖上屋顶时就搬走了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We don't have a roof on our car.

我们的车也没有车顶。

What if 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The next year she starred in a film version of the Tennessee Williams play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

VOA: special.2011.04.03

A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

腰肢的猛一颤动,残破的墙垣，燃烧的屋顶和塔巅,阿伽门农死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"We use what we call good shoes and a good hat, and that would be a solid foundation and a really good roof."

VOA: special.2009.10.05

And whew! She's flying off the roof with anger, chasing him around the house trying to whip him with a wet towel, so on and so forth: a very dramatic scene again of powerlessness within the family, of being the victim of violence within the family.

噢！在房子里，祖母气急败坏地用湿毛巾追着打他，一会窜这儿，一会窜那儿：,这是理查在家里无能为力，再次成为家庭暴力受害者的又一典型案例。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was covered with a moving roof that kept its solar panels pointed toward the sun.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Mister Chu said sunlight,and its heat, will bounce off a white colored roof.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Its roof hung from a huge stick in the center.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Farmers sold fruits and vegetables outside under a permanent roof.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

A white roof top reflects almost as much.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

"It's just corrugated metal from the roof and a few chimneys, and that's all that was left of our place when we went in,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Nonhlanhla Masuku,23, welcomes visitors to her home, a one-room mud hut with a thatched roof.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

About a 150 people came - so many that some are sleeping on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now,theoretically, only the speakers and deputy speakers of the two houses of parliament may use the lights officially, but there are still dozens of cars on the Moscow roads that continue to exploit the advantages of a blue light on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25