As we approached the mountain, the hills and gulleys bore the appearance of having been created by some vast, fierce torrent rushing around the base of the peak, and tearing its way through the loose earth....

VOA: special.2010.04.26

We had a similar, even higher price-to-earnings ratio of about forty-six at the peak in 2000 and it corrected way down.

000年时我们的市盈率甚至更高,达到了46,后来经过修正降低了

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Now they are falling and in real terms home prices have fallen almost 10% since the peak in 2006.

从2006年房价格最高点算起,现在房价已经,下跌了将近 10%

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"The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

The rise time and the peak energy and the sustained duration of some of these sounds are highly detrimental to our hearing.

某些声响的起始，高峰以及持续阶段,对我们听力的损害,是极大的。

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The facility in Arcadia is expected to help power 3,000 homes, at its peak,and do so without producing carbon emissions, like traditional coal-fired plants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

If you put it too soon, you might stick around for longer than that, and then the peak has come too soon.

如果你太早到达巅峰，你可能会有很长的下跌时期，这样的话巅峰来得太早了。

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he and his six-man band are in peak form on their new album,"Bingo!"

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

Second and significantly, not an afterthought, it's the peak of creation!

第二个重要的，不是事后才想起的，它是创造的高峰！

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Aircraft consultant Richard Aboulafia says while air travel appears to be making a comeback, demand for first class tickets remains sluggish and airline revenues are well below 2008 peak levels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

So, for example, we have this average level, and then it can go high where we have the peak, or it can go very low. We can also discuss sound waves, so again it's just the periodic variation of some property -- in this case we're talking about density, so we have high density areas and low density areas.

例如这是平均位置，在峰的位置水位高，在谷水位低，我们也可以,讨论声波它也是某种,量的周期变化，在这里我们,讨论的是密度,我们有高密度区和低密度区。

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Anti-government militia activity in the U.S.reached a peak in the early 1990s following a clash between law enforcement agencies and an armed religious group in Waco,Texas that left more than 70 people dead.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

The peak occurs a little bit later and then there's a less rapid decline here, and then blood sugar actually ends up a little above this initial level, and therefore you're less likely to eat because you're less hungry.

峰值出现得比较晚,下降也较为缓慢,最后血糖结束在比起始值稍高的位置,因此人就没有那么想进食 因为不感觉饿

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The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

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We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

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Where and when do you want to peak, ? as it were, in terms of your accomplishments?

你想在什么时间到达巅峰，如果它说的是你的成就方面？

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Research suggests that there is a fair bit of redundancy in the brain, you can lose portions of the brain and still have a perfectly functioning, peak functioning person.

有研究显示,大脑中有些部分是没用的,即使失去大脑的某些部分,你还是可以正常生活，还是非常正常的人。

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The percent who think it's the best investment is higher in Los Angeles than in Milwaukee, and since the peak of the bubble in 2003, it's been declining in Los Angeles but, surprisingly, rising in Milwaukee.

认为房地产是最佳投资选择的人群,在洛杉矶居民中所占比例远高于密尔沃基,自从2003年房产泡沫达到最高峰,洛杉矶房价就一直在下跌,令人惊异的是密尔沃基房价仍在上涨

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You may take on a long-term project and then die before you've been able to complete it; or alternatively, you may peak too soon and then continue to stick around in an anti-climactic way.

你可能承担了一个长期的项目,然后在你能完成之前就死了，或者，你可能太快达到人生高峰,然后继续在平淡中徘徊。

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We didn't even have income tax until 1913 when the Supreme Court allowed it, so it was zero, then it went up to 90%-- or actually it was 94% at the peak--and it came down to 15%.

直到1913年最高法院允许征收的时候,我们才开始征收所得税,开始税率是零,而后飙升到90%,然后它最高达到94%再降到15%

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