Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

In the mental construction of the Dutch and the English both involves one thing they don't want to be.

在心理层面上,荷兰人和英国人,都不希望这件事的发生

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It is being written and redacted at a time when there is a king in Israel, there have been kings in Israel, and it is providing laws for the construction of an ideal monarchy.

它是在以色列有国王的时候写成并编辑的，以色列曾有过国王，它为建立君主理念提供了律法。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Its effects would be next and its social construction would be next, and you guys alluded to all these in your answers to my question.

接下来,是它的功效,还有对于食品的社会观念,这些其实都已包含在你们刚才的答案中了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"In the short term, we expect these projects to create about 5,000 construction and installation jobs around the country."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Israel wants negotiations without preconditions and is ready to offer no more than a partial, temporary freeze on construction in the settlements.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says that will not happen until Israel stops all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"Our report shows that the construction in the settlements never stopped and this is not a settlement freeze,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Israel has approved construction of 900 new units in mostly Arab east Jerusalem despite objections by the United States and the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

And this ship,that we are in, is full of humanitarian aid materials composed of medical,medicine, construction material and very,very much essential needs for Gazan people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

The United States opposes any construction in the settlements, and settlers are outraged.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

The United States is pushing Israel to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an issue that has soured relations between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Economists say much of China's growth in the past year was the result of stimulus efforts, including rapid lending growth that funded new housing and factory construction.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Israel plans to build nearly 700 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, defying demands by the United States and the Palestinian Authority for a freeze on settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

He says there have been large increases in the last five years in the trafficking of men and boys to work in the agricultural, construction,fishing and domestic service sector.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The freeze allows for buildings already under construction in West Bank settlements to be completed and does not apply to East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their future capital.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Friday's IAEA resolution criticized Tehran for building the secret nuclear enrichment plant at Fordoo, which it disclosed in September, and demanded that it cease construction on the plant immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

The United States has demanded a complete freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem, and Israel's refusal has strained ties between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

People lived on the edge of death." During the frequent droughts, Mohamed Ait Lamine and others left their families to look for work on construction sites in cities far away.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

The company's output of iron ore, as well as copper, zinc and nickel, surged in the last three months of 2009 because of strong demand from Chinese carmakers and construction companies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The freeze does not include 3,000 Jewish homes already under construction in the West Bank and does not apply to disputed East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seek as the capital of their future state.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Now five years later Nadija Prijma regrets that she and her husband returned from neighboring Slovakia, where she was a baby sitter and cleaned homes while her husband worked in the construction business.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

But the Palestinians say the freeze is not enough to revive U.S.-sponsored peace talks because it does not include disputed East Jerusalem and some 3,000 Jewish homes already under construction in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

The issue is far from being settled. The United States has called for Israel to freeze settlement construction, but in response Israel insisted the freeze would be time-limited and exclude settlements currently under construction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The Palestinians claim the West Bank and East Jerusalem as territory for a future state, and they have conditioned a resumption of peace talks on a halt to all Israeli construction in those areas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Major concerns over delays in the construction of facilities, including stadium updates and practice fields at a number of the eight venues spread across the country, seem to have been resolved at the last moment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11