The report calls for stronger steps to be taken by advanced economies to reduce carbon emissions, seen as the main cause of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

United States is among the most inegalitarian society as far as the distribution of wealth of all the advanced democracies.

在所有发达的民主国家之中,美国财富分配不均的问题最为严重。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Secondly, as we go to the more advanced part of the course, we'll take a result from this part of the blackboard, stick it into the second part and keep manipulating, so if I screwed up in the beginning and you guys keep quiet, we'll have to do the whole thing again.

其次,随着我们课程的深入,我们需要把黑板这边的计算结果,抄到黑板的那边,不停地这么做,如果我一开始就写错了,而你们又不出声,我们就得全部重新来过

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Professor Fouad Ajami, who directs the Middle East Studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks President Assad is well placed to act as mediator with Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The bloody assault on the beaches of Normandy would change the course of the war, allowing the Allies to liberate occupied France and advance into Germany, as Soviet troops advanced against the Germans from the East.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02