If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Two ways of measuring how this happened and what difference it made is to realize, to return to what I said earlier, that big state structures involve bureaucracies.

如果要弄懂贵族如何获利,以及贵族获利所引起的改变,我们必须意识到大国必须建立官僚机构,我在前面曾提到过这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But you don't yet have these big state structures.

但你还没有见过这样的大国家结构

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

So that's a big help. And equilibrium happens when there isn't any possible change of state that would satisfy this.

这个非常方便，当所有的变化,都无法满足这个公式的时候,系统就达到了平衡。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Not much for such a big company, notes business expert Fariborz Ghadar at Penn State University.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

New York,which always thinks big, was called The Empire State because of its natural wealth.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

A big change came four years ago, when Russia's new forestry law essentially privatized management of state forests.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Ferris State University is located in Big Rapids,Michigan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

Smith says American academicians and journalists often cite a list of root causes for Middle East turmoil, in which the U.S., the West and Israel usually play a big part: a history of colonialism and economic exploitation, the creation of Israel and American support for the Jewish state, the politics of oil, Western backing of repressive Arab regimes and the U.S.military presence in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18