In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

He described the physical world as the integral of void plus being.

他将物理世界描述为,虚无和原子的总和。

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And Rutherford, who I have already described to you as being a little bit colorful in his language, backed up Bohr on this.

而卢瑟福，就是以前我跟你们提过的那个,语言丰富生动的人，在这一点上证实了波尔的理论。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He described Art Brut as being created from pure and real creative forces.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

He described provincials as being dominated by routine and monotony in their small towns, that they're all the same, he wrote, which is obviously not the case.

他把乡下人描绘成在小城镇中,过着千篇一律的单调生活,他写道,他们全是一个模子里刻出来的,情况显然不是这样

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One sailor described the sea as being as smooth as glass.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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But Graham described as unpersuasive the president's continuing assertion that the U.S.must avoid being seen to be meddling in Iran so Iran's government will not use this as an excuse to intensify its crackdown on the opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23

And, being he described as an infinity of indivisible particles, which he dubbed atoms from the Greek.

他将原子描述为无限的极微小的,粒子，他用德语给原子命名。

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The president described the health care debate as being in its final stages after a century of struggle, saying it's about the character of the United States rather than merely the cost of health care for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19