And it's there that an increasing number of soldiers are being killed on an almost daily basis, many by roadside bombs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Well,you're in some battle,or rather, your troop is in some battle, and people are being killed left and right.

比如你在战场上，或者说你的军队在战场上，周围的人被杀死。

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The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This man's view is typical. (Speech) He says,too much blood is being shed, and many innocent people are being killed, most of whom are Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

They might be,for example,in an accident, and come close to being killed,but walk away without a scratch.

比如说在事故中幸存，差点送命，但结果毫发无伤。

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She says fighting between government and Hutu rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resulted in a great many children being killed and maimed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

I'm afraid of being killed by somebody or being harmed by somebody.

我害怕被杀死或被伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says young Muslims are often confused by disturbing Internet images of their brothers in faith being killed in conflicts, and that one of his community's greatest challenges is helping young people interpret current events.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Now, I think in certain circumstances it becomes necessary to overlook that unjustness, perhaps condone that injustice as in the case of the cabin boy being killed for food.

我认为在某些情况下,我们需要忽视这种不公平，容忍这种不正义,例如在救生艇里被当作食物的男孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Only one Asian carp was found among many thousands of fish killed with poison while part of the fence was being serviced.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

So now, the enzyme is locked up with being built, and the penicillin has effectively killed the bacteria.

所以这是我第一次感受到,我想在单个原子的层面上思考这些分子,所以这时我的专业转到了化学方向。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Blacks who tried to change the system risked being beaten or killed.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Remember, the Iliad starts because of a quarrel and the quarrel emerges from the fact that the Greeks are busily being killed by a terrible plague that has struck them. They say, "We got to find out what's happening?"

记住,《伊利亚特》,是从一场争论中开始的,一场肆虐的瘟疫夺走了无数希腊人的生命,希腊人大为震惊,他们说,"到底发生了什么"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

At least three were killed in what's being viewed as an escalation in Mexico's already raging drug war.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed, our hero takes his place.

所以当另一个人被装在车里押到断头台行刑时，我们的主角就代替了他。

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As British deaths in Afghanistan have edged past the number killed in Iraq, Gordon Brown's approach to Afghanistan is being attacked on two fronts.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

Even if it's separate, it could be that it gets killed at the very same time or destroyed at the very same time that the body's being destroyed.

即使灵魂是独立于肉体的,在肉体被摧毁的同时,它也可能被杀死,或彻底摧毁

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选