He had seen days of much food and laughter; fat stomachs when food was left to rot and spoil;

VOA: special.2010.02.27

He lived in the summers on a country estate outside St. Petersburg, in a beautiful chateau. And his uncle owned the chateau down the road, and actually left it to him when he was a very young man.

夏天的时候他住在圣彼得堡外漂亮的乡村城堡，那是他叔叔的城堡，并在Naboko很小的时候就把它送给了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When the Judge died that year, he left John his big house and much of his money.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

And there,everything was just as it was when he left it.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

But all that is left of his livestock now are 25 goats and when they are gone, Ahmed says he does not know what he will do.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06