But 62 percent of Thai workers are in the informal sector, such as contract workers,farmers, street hawkers, and motorcycle-taxi drivers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

They all tutoyer each other, even if they hate each other's politics, and they call each other by the informal name.

人们表面亲热,即使他们与对方的政见相对立,他们用非正式的名字称呼对方

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

By our informal count, however, we and the Afghan commandoes we work with were stopped on 70 percent of our attempts because we could not achieve the requisite 11 approvals in time.

粗略估算了一下，与我们一道工作的阿富汗突击队,有70%的尝试都失败了,因为我们不能按时拿到所需的11个批准。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo says during informal discussions, APEC foreign ministers touched on the financial crisis, economic coordination, and financial reforms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

University-level research papers, she says,are now being peppered with casual phrases like "you know" and words like "guy" informal usages that were absent almost a decade ago.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"A science caf, it's a concept that actually started in Europe, and it was an idea to get scientists engaged in an informal conversation with the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

And women are three times as likely as men to work in informal economies, and therefore abuse,sex trafficking and the absence of legal rights and protections for women are still unacceptably commonplace in so many places around the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

The New York meeting co-chaired by President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was the first summit-level session of the informal Friends of Democratic Pakistan grouping, and it brought together leaders of some 25 countries and organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24