It took a great deal of time and effort to gather fibers from plants or animals to make into yarn which could then be made into cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Because we can get inspirations from so many places, they come together to make us who we are, and not to be ashamed.

因为我们从各个地方汲取灵感，这些灵感融合在一起，就塑造了我们的人格，我们不应因此感到羞愧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And you can kick it down the road ... but somebody down the road... I think it's very important to make the tax cuts permanent to prevent the taxes from increasing It would be really a large drag on the economy.

你可以视若无睹,但总得有人来。,我认为，长期实行减税政策十分重要,这样可以避免税率增加,否则会极大地阻碍经济发展。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Grand says if they were to make the cloth now, it would be twice as expensive as buying it from outside.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

For Dow Chemical,the main focus will be producing material from algae that can be used to make plastics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

It should be one of the rules. The more people that graduate from communities like this and make something of themselves the way she did, the more we become a more egalitarian society."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05