She says she thinks he was tired of being asked, or might have felt sorry for her.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

There is no better time to start a new company or a new idea than a depression or recession because a lot of the management teams were being asked to leave.

金融衰退和大萧条是,建立一个公司或是发展一个新想法的最好时机,因为很多管理团队都被辞退了。

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Let's say that you're being asked to recall your childhood,

假如你被要求回忆童年，

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He said the Senate was a political body that was being asked to settle a political question.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

And secondly, it turns out their definition of unwelcome sexual advance was broad enough to include someone being asked out on the date by someone they don't want to go out with.

第二个问题是,受调查人员对性挑逗的定义,十分宽泛,有些人被邀请外出约会,往往是被一些他们不想一起出去的人邀请。

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Daniel Webster, without even being asked, wrote an inaugural speech for the new president.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

We're being asked to accept the fiction that Milton is having this very poem laid at the blessed feet of the infant Christ.

它想让我们接受这一幻景,幻景中弥尔顿正把这首诗,谦虚的在上帝圣洁的脚下安放。

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In blunt terms,the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report says Britain's military mission in Afghanistan has failed to deliver what it promised, because troops are being asked to do too many different tasks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

And the fact of being asked to do ten positive features is people find this hard.

实际上大家都会发现,要列举出某人的十个优点,是相当困难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The judge asked Brown if he wanted to make a statement before being sentenced.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The opposite is being asked here.

这里要求的是相反的过程

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"Sookie, you're being a very stupid girl." "Who asked you?

VOA: special.2010.01.20

And then, they have this very complicated back-and-forth about things that they remembered, or didn't, and they hashed these things over: Then Carlo asked Dean if he was honest and specifically if he was being honest with him in the bottom of his soul.

于是，他们有了这个十分复杂的,关于他们想得起来想不起来的事的来回选择，并且他们充分讨论了这些事情：,然后卡洛问迪恩他是否诚实，特别是他是否,从灵魂深处对他诚实。

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Mr.Brown was asked about those sentiments being expressed up and down the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

He positions pro-censorship argument alongside anti-censorship rhetoric or metaphor, and there are dozens of moments in which it's just these opposites that are being asked to coexist in some kind of peace.

他把支持控制出版的论点和反对控制出版的修辞和,比喻放在一起，有无数次这样的对立,被要求和平共处在一起。

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