And when he traveled to his grandmother's house, he sat in the back of the bus behind a white line.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The concept of regression goes back to the mathematician Gauss, who talked about fitting a line through a scatter of points.

回归这个概念要追溯到数学家高斯,讨论的是从若干散点中切合出一条直线

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

First there was the observation by Michelson who back in the late 1880s had done very precise interferal metric measurements of the hydrogen lines and had observed that the 656 nanometer line 3 associated with the transition of n equals 3 to n equals 2 was, in fact, a doublet.

首先是麦克逊,在1880年底的观察,他以公制单位对氢原子的光谱线,作了准确的，无其他因素干扰的，测量,发现当n值由3变为2时,会同时得到波长为656纳米的谱线3,实际上是有两条线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They got back on the train and keep going until they reached the end of the line.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

Critics of the move -- including several Cuban-Americans in Congress -- warned that the money sent back to Cuba would ultimately line the pockets of Cuba's communist officials.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

and Mexican officials. Every day, thousands of people on foot and in vehicles go back and forth across the border here, and millions of dollars worth of products cross the line in trucks and railroad cars.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30