withdrawal from Afghanistan would likely lead to the Taliban regaining power, and questioned what an expanded U.S.military presence would accomplish.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

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And so an experiment said the gas didn't increase its temperature when it expanded the vacuum.

这个实验告诉你,气体在向真空膨胀的过程,中温度没有升高。

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Among the new measures are an expanded arms embargo and a ban on certain ballistic missile activities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Republicans assert that an expanded government rolewould threaten the current private system, separate from the federally administered Medicare system for the elderly, and add to the government budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

advocates an expanded search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Lawmakers in the United States have expanded an investigation into the use of location-tracking systems on mobile devices.

VOA: special.2011.05.02

And what was once an online destination only for college students has expanded, says Michael Nelson.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Clinton's keynote speech at a dinner organized by the Atlantic Council was more an appeal for unity among the expanded NATO alliance than a commemoration of the transformative events in Berlin two decades ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09