The caterpillars were suspected to be African armyworms -- so named because they look like an army on the march.
VOA: special.2009.01.27
her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.
分别是11岁和9岁,不寻常的小演员,我们可能会想,他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。
You would also engage in sports together, and you would develop a camaraderie because you were expected then to be the fighting force for your city, your city-state.
一起参加体育运动,培养友谊,因为他们将成为这座城市,这座城邦的,主要战斗力。
Development Report. Some of the longest-lasting effects of colonization can be found in the health of the native people who were colonized.
VOA: special.2009.07.20
They were little toys that-- they would be shaped like animals or something and you could roll them along the floor.
那些是小型的玩具-,它们可以被做成动物或者其它的形状,你可以拖着它们在地板上跑。
He says the Leiopathes corals were shown to be about four thousand two hundred sixty-five years old.
VOA: special.2009.05.12
All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.
弥尔顿壮丽的期望,将英格兰转变成一个,清教徒乌托邦,甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。
They warned workers that if Cleveland were re-elected, there might be no more jobs.
VOA: special.2010.05.27
It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.
人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事
But he said someone had to make clear to anti-slavery Democrats that the union would be dissolved if the constitutional rights of slave owners were not honored.
VOA: special.2009.07.09
That's--if this were a scientific study, I would be instructing you to do that so you wouldn't forget anything by the end of the day.
如果进行科学研究,我就会指导你们去做这个,最后你们就不会忘记任何东西
Party leaders were sure a Republican could be elected president in eighteen ninety-six.
VOA: special.2010.07.01
You can see that it would be problem here if the gene that you were trying to give to the cancer cells also went to normal cells-- that would be a problem.
这确实是个问题,如果我们想导入癌细胞的自杀基因,也能进入正常细胞,那问题就大了
It would be nice if we were right." "You double-checked your sources?"
VOA: special.2009.04.20
That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.
这就是为什么我们会希望,也许我们有人相信,但我们之中其他人,我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在,那样死亡就不是终结了。
Some lawmakers were afraid they would not be re-elected.
VOA: special.2010.02.25
If I'm American and you're from another country, I will view myself--this is a very--kind of obvious finding-- my obligations to you will be seen as less than if you were another American.
如果我是美国人,你是外国人,显而易见,我会觉得-,我对你的道义会少于,你是一个美国人的情况。
There may have been several more. People who knew John Slaughter said there was no doubt they were dealing with an extremely serious man -- a man who could be very dangerous.
VOA: special.2010.03.17
If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.
后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说,腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。
Those explosions were thought to be an attempt by local al-Qaida forces to destabilize the country before parliamentary elections last month.
VOA: standard.2010.04.04
Because I thought everyone was going to be around like the 45 range because 66 is two-thirds, or right around of 100, and they were going to go two-thirds less than that and I did one less than that one.
因为我想每个人都会选45左右的数,因为66约等于一百的2/3,而大家会选比那小的,我就选了更小的数
He argued that military-driven tactics were failing and negotiations with the Taliban should instead be prioritized.
VOA: standard.2010.06.22
So Julius Caesar--if you were really going to be important in Rome, you had to serve as a general at some point.
所以恺撒。。。如果你要在罗马出人头地,就得参军成为将领。
The decisions had to be made. They were gut-wrenching, but absolutely necessary for Chrysler's survival,"
VOA: standard.2009.06.04
But generally,the documents that came to be accepted were the ones that people we call the "proto-orthodox."
但总的来说,被接受的书籍,都被人们称为“原始东正教“
The five American suspects were said to be in contact with an outlawed Pakistani militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad , that has links with al-Qaida and Taliban extremists.
VOA: standard.2009.12.11
And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.
虽然奴隶成为了自由人,自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子,如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的,则会成为自由民,而不是自由人。
Five or six gunshots were fired by an unknown, would-be assassin.
VOA: standard.other
They said, no more new houses to be built, so everyone thought--in fact they were talking about World War III, they were really scared.
他们说,禁止新建住宅,因此当时人们都认为,要爆发第三次世界大战,人们都很害怕
In portraying the deity, I would think, if I were to write an epic poem - I would feel that I would be expected to stay within the fairly narrow parameters of religious decorum.
要表现神性,我认为,要是我要写一首史诗的话,-我肯定会觉得不能越出,宗教教义狭窄的界限。
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