Jason Kint,senior vice president and general manager of CBSSports.com, says die-hard fans and novices alike try to predict the winners.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns, and it's remarkable how they all look so much alike, because they're all inspired by this originally Greek model of the city.

如果你现在去土耳其,叙利亚，以色列，约旦或埃及旅游，就会发现当地考古挖掘出的古城镇，都惊人的相似，因为都是根据古希腊模型建的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Well, we were raised by different parents and we have different genes We can't tell-- My brother and me might share all sorts of things in common but we have the same parents and the same genes, fifty percent of the same genes ? So how do we tell what's causing us to be alike?

因为我们的父母不同,我们有不同的基因,我哥哥和我,可能会有很多共同点,我们的父母是一样的,有50%的基因相同,那是什么导致我们相似的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In Copenhagen, experts and officials alike are putting the emphasis on what people and governments can do to cut the emission of greenhouse gasses.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

And so if incidentally, you're a representative of a student group and the alike and your Google calendar is not -- in here, you can check just by flipping through the various-- we have over 200 calendars right now and you can search through them here.

如果你是一个学生团体的代表,你的Google日历在此不存在,你可以检查其他各种各样的-,目前我们有200多种日历,你可以在它们之中进行查找。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It says Congolese government soldiers and rebel groups alike extort money from the villagers, rob them of their belongings and of their seeds and cattle.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Despite his troubles, the death of the singer dubbed the "King of Pop" has been greeted with widespread sadness by statesmen, fellow superstars and ordinary people alike.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

So the odds of seeing any two exactly alike are essentially zero."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

But rather than celebrating Nigeria's status as not only host nation but also defending champion of this event, local organizers and FIFA officials alike will instead be holding their collective breath, hoping that the country pulls through the three-week long tournament without any major problems.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22