Abode is sun-dried earth and straw.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Maurice Chevalier was a crooner, he was a singer, he was--if your parents knew about France, he was the person that your grandparents even had heard about, and he was somebody from a poor part of Paris, and he was from Menilmontant, and he had this straw hat and he sung tunes-- "Very good my boys," And all of this stuff.

莫里斯·舍瓦利埃是个低吟男歌手,是个歌手,他是,要是你家长了解法国的话,他是那种你的爷爷都可能听说过的人,他是巴黎一个贫穷的地方的人,是从梅尼尔蒙当来的,他带着个草帽唱曲子,"小伙子们真不错",所有这些东西

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He and a team of researchers there have built a house made out of straw bale and hemp material.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The old man and woman would carry the babies in a straw basket as they went about their work.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He has now helped to build more than ten straw bale houses and says the building material is becoming more widely accepted.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Then spread loose straw ten to fifteen centimeters deep over the seed pieces and between the planted rows.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

It's the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf that blew down a house made of straw and one made of sticks.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Straw is the dried stem part of plants such as wheat, millet and sorghum.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

She said the Obama administration intends to devote hundreds more agents and more effective equipment to stem gun-running across the border and curb illegal purchases in U.S.gun shops by so-called "straw men" fronting for Mexican criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25