But an official says the church calls itself the Washington National Cathedral because many services of national interest have been held there.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.

而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同，但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

没有智能手机活不了 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The copyrights to these songs were held not only by the singers but also by his son Alan.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Of course, other stocks are held by institutions on their behalf, but in terms of direct ownership, homes are the main thing that people own.

当然,他们还通过金融机构,间接持有股票,但从直接持有的角度来看,人们拥有的主要财产就是住宅

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Now, if you look at the brain— If you took the brain out and held it up, it would look pretty symmetrical, but it actually is not.

如果你仔细观察大脑,如果你把大脑拿出来,放在手上,它看起去会是非常的对称,但事实并非如此

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Wrestling competitions were held not only in big cities, but also at country fairs and traveling shows.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

Now we can debate what Jefferson got right or wrong there, or what's held up, but do note how he said both sides were either jealous or zealous of their own liberties.

现在我们讨论下他说的哪些对哪些不对,或者哪些还未有定论,但是请注意他提到双方对于自由态度是,用词的区别,一方珍惜一方热衷

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But if a trial is held, jurors are not required to decide "beyond a reasonable doubt.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

As Hanson says, thus arose the kleros, or the idea of a privately held plot attached not to any one person, but rather in perpetuity to a single farm family or oikos.

如汉森所言,kleros兴起了,或是说有了私有土地,而不再属于单个人的观念产生了,也可永久的属于单个的农业家庭或者领主

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But they quickly learned that they held political power only at the local level.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

But he still held one of the hammers."I beat them," he said.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He wanted to destroy it. But heavy rain held up Jackson's troops.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Jackson's men had held, but they paid a terrible price.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

We struggled, but I held her down on the bed.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

But they almost never held positions of great responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

But he had never before held an elected office.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

One of them is the political situation. Afghanistan held elections in August but the results are contested amidst allegations of fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

The commission held public hearings in Sierra Leone's major cities and regional towns, but did not reach remote villages like Dugba-yeima.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The soldier is being held in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip but has not been seen since his capture.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

But they say future exercises will be held off the west coast -- in the Yellow Sea.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

In 2007 elections were held, but less than a year later rebel soldiers shot President Jose Ramos-Horta.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

But Howells acknowledged the government cannot guarantee that some of the terror suspects picked up and held in other countries did not have their human rights abused.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

But he continues to stress the importance of law and order, and held up the election as an example of how things are starting to get on track.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

President Mugabe emerged from the more than one hour meeting and told journalists the meeting was held in a friendly atmosphere but the sanctions issue had not been resolved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

As for Tabachnyk,Ben says petition drives are being held against him, not just in western Ukraine, but also in Kyiv and such eastern and southern cities as Kharkiv, Kherson,and even Odesa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"Nothing can bring back those loved ones,". "But they deserve the opportunity to see the alleged plotters of those attacks held accountable in open court,an opportunity that has too long been delayed."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Protesters held rallies in cities across Pakistan, but much of the attention was focused on groups of lawyers and political activists in Karachi and Quetta, who officially started the so-called 'long march' to Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12