City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

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It is a scenario that has become all but routine - an act of piracy on the high seas by Somalis.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The cells that take an electrical signal, which is coming down your nerve and convert it into a muscle contraction work this way, so 'neuro' nerve, muscle junctions act based on ligand-gated ion channels.

依靠相同的工作原理,细胞将来自于神经的,电信号传递到细胞收缩肌中,所以神经和肌肉关节运动,都基于配体门控离子通道

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Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The Senate could act on the $91-billion bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and provide aid to Pakistan as early as this week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20