"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But it grows pretty rapidly, as n goes up, and I'm going to show you an example in a second.

解决问题需要的时间会急剧增长，一会儿我会让大家看个例子的,我想大家注意的还是。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In fact, it's just happening rapidly as we speak.

就在我们说话的时候它就在迅速的进行着。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Word that pop idol Michael Jackson had died spread rapidly through New York City, as stunned residents sent text messages and emails to inform friends of the news.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

Becasue the rich are getting rich more rapidly than the poor who are benefiting but not as rapidly, so you get inequalities inceasing on variety of dismensions which has political implications and which has the implications for how fast the poor benefit from the economic growth.

因为有钱人更加有钱,而穷人却更穷,所以地区不同,不平等现象的程度也不同,有些地区有政策帮助,有些地区的穷人还是可以,从经济增长中获益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The hum of the spinning blades is the sound of China going green as it seeks to address the growing energy demands of its rapidly modernizing consumer society and fast-paced industrialization.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

The H1N1 virus, which is commonly known as swine flu, has spread rapidly around the world since emerging in North America earlier this year, yet still much of what makes it so potent a threat remains a mystery.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

"because the virus can spread rapidly, but what we're seeing so far is a pretty stable position as far as the virus is concerned, it's producing relatively mild illness in most people, but in a small proportion it's causing serious problems and we have in place the plans in our health care system to deal with those problems,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.31