And quicker than you could shut your eyes that frogwould jump straight up and catch a fly off the table.
VOA: special.2009.08.29
Milton represented himself as a poet more often and with more care and attention than any English poet before him.
弥尔顿比起之前的英国诗人,更经常把自己描绘成诗人。
And even more scary than that, a friend of mine is married, and his wife was walking to church one morning.
更可怕的是,我的一个已经结了婚的朋友,有一天早上当他老婆正往教堂走时,
For now,however, the method offers the promise of making a map of asbestos easier and faster than earlier ways.
VOA: special.2009.11.17
So that means that we assume that it's better to have limbs and functioning limbs than not to have them.
这意味着,我们默认,有正常的四肢的生活,要比没有四肢的生活好过。
Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans come from two countries in West Africa.
VOA: special.2010.10.26
They seem to be designed less to recruit philosophers and potential philosophers than to shape and educate citizens and future statesmen.
它们看来较不像,要吸引哲学家,和潜在哲学家,反倒像是要形塑及教育公民,和未来的政治家。
One of the drivers found the car's directions to be more exact and dependable than those from a human passenger.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
For example, when I returned to China, I remember we had less than 10 million Internet users, and today we have more than 338 million Internet users.
举例来说,当我回到中国,当时中国网民人数不足一千万,而现在网民数达到了3。38亿。
He was surprised to see land turtles that weighed more than two hundred kilograms and were more than one meter long.
VOA: special.2009.12.16
The nymphs, of course, are powerless, and worse than that, the nymphs, as we know and of course as John Milton knew, are merely fictions. This is all made up.
海洋女神当然无能为力,更糟糕的是,海洋女神,我们都知道,弥尔顿也知道,只是虚构的,这都是虚构的。
I think that Princess Lenore is wiser than your officials and knows more about the moon than they do.
VOA: special.2009.03.28
They're pretty impressive looking. But they would be big, but still that would be a lot easier to transport and handle than a whole box or closet full of scrolls.
看起来觉得不可思议,它们虽然很厚,但它们仍然比较容易携带使用,相对于装满卷轴的箱子或书橱来说。
That was more than ten percent of all Americans -- and more than eight times the number of people in Ireland itself.
VOA: special.2009.03.16
Roughly half of you are doing better than average and roughly half of you are doing worse than average.
大约有一半同学学得比别人好,有一半同学学得比别人差。
More than half are girls, and more than two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and West Asia.
VOA: special.2010.05.20
The importance of this painting is who is being painted and, more than that, who is getting Rembrandt to paint this.
这幅画作的重点在于谁被画了进来,更重要的是,是谁让伦勃朗画这幅画的
Cacao trees grown on farms are much more easily threatened by disease and insects than wild trees are.
VOA: special.2010.02.17
And you should know that a 2 s is larger than that, and a 3 s is even larger, and of course, hopefully as we go to 4 and 5, you would be able to guess that those are going to get even larger.
你们要知道2s比这更大一点,3s就更大,当然对于4和5,你们可以猜到,它们就会更大一些。
He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.
VOA: special.2010.04.21
There is also the constant, creative tension around experimentation and making sure everyone in the organization feels it's better to experiment, fail and then move on and experiment again than to not do that.
而且,在技术试验上,他总会持续迸发出创造性的火花,在这之前,马克会去确认,团队里的每一个人是否同意试验,如果第一次失败,我们会继续,而不是停止试验。
The study also showed that Americans owned more than seventy-seven million dogs and more than ninety-three million cats.
VOA: special.2009.02.23
You can see that the stock market has been more volatile than the earnings and the price of a share is many times higher than the earnings per share.
你可以看到,股票市场波动性大于其收益,每股价格往往是,每股收益的几倍之多
He has said that,in some ways, he has been more influenced by artists and sculptors than by architects.
VOA: special.2011.04.13
In fact, I don't quite know what he is saying" and struggled more than you're expected to because you anticipated what I've just been saying about the setting and about the role of Foucault and all the rest of it, and were possibly more confused than you might have expected to be.
事实上,我也不太清楚他在说什么“,然后你发现这比预想的更难理解,因为你预想了我给你们设置的背景,以及福柯和其他人的角色,然后可能会发现比自己预想的更困惑。
His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her.
VOA: special.2009.04.18
And once I know that she's going to choose Alpha, it's clear that I should choose Alpha and get 0 rather than Beta and get -3. So I should choose Alpha also.
一旦我意识到她会选α的时候,很显然我应该也选α来得到0单位效用,而不是选β只得到-3,所以我也选α
The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.
VOA: special.2009.02.28
This fellow who was just interviewed on this is a man named Philip James who's in London and runs a group called The International Obesity Task Force, and probably more than anyone in the world, knows the world situation about food and food policy.
视频中的这位先生,来自伦敦,名叫菲利普·詹姆斯,他负责主持国际肥胖特别工作组,也许他比我们任何人都了解,现在世界粮食和粮食政策的形式
and push myself a little bit further than I went the day before and try to get in shape.
并且让自己总比头一天跑得远些,并且努力保持身材。
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