Although many Democrats and some Republicans favor shutting down the detention center, which they argue has come to exemplify the extreme antiterrorism tactics that have hurt the U.S.image abroad, they oppose funding the closure before a plan is in place on what to do with the 240 detainees being held there.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

We've talked--we spent a lot of time talking about that--the most popular music, virtually all of it--although after the fact people try to write it down.

我们说过，我们花了很长时间讨论过，大部分流行乐　,可以说是所有流行乐，虽然事实上人们确实会想把它写下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The other thing I have down is population, although the population of the U.S. has been pretty steady -that pink line looks awfully steady -and I have interest rates.

我还做了另外一个数据,就是人口数,而美国的人口数量一直都很平稳,粉色的那条线看起来非常平稳,我还做了利率的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I put these conditions down because,of course, what I want to suggest is although the sentence everyone dies alone, the claim that everyone dies alone, is one of these things that people say, they're not really thinking very hard about what they mean by it.

我定下这些条件是因为，我想说尽管大家都说，人孤独而死，这都只是说说而已，人们说的时候并没有做什么深刻的思考。

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