In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Gadamer believes that historicism forgets the possibility of being taught something by past-ness or otherness.

伽达默尔认为历史主义忘记了,我们会从过去性和他性中学到一些东西的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

By the nineteen fifties, however, most Americans could expect to live well past their sixtieth birthday.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

So this is a very popular theory, believed by many famous economists today, and in the past.

所以这是一个很受欢迎的理论,从古至今都有很多经济学家相信它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Experts say Aquarius will gather as much information about sea surface salinity as has been collected by ships over the past one hundred twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

So, by no means is it a part of what we've done in the past.

所以这并不是,我们曾经做过的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The scientists say this belief is further supported by the fact that past discoveries from dinosaur areas show they contained large numbers of dinosaur eggs.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The number of visitors has increased by ten times in the past fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The space station has been hit in the past by very small debris.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

He says that in the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists estimate that climate change has caused temperatures to increase by two or three degrees Celsius over the past fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And in the past several years we've begun to see almost an equal interest by families in sending students here for undergraduate education, and I think that's going to continue because America is really a unique country.

VOA: special.2010.11.18

The settlements, whose growth has been promoted by past Israeli governments, are home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

After revealing much of that pain, the historians conclude by saying Russian national unity cannot be based upon varnished myths about the past;

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

But the process has been stalled by Mr.Yar'Adua's absence from Nigeria in the past few weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

and covering the past 40 years, works by Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson,Patti Smith, R.E.M.and The Band.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

But,he said the tasks exceed the capacity of the United States alone and that collective efforts, are needed including by critics of past U.S.policy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The U.S.State Department has a travel advisory for Timbuktu because of past terrorist activities in the region by the group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

He says prices especially for Thai rice are being pushed higher by new customers coming into the market after the economic slowdown of the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

It is a community haunted by its past. In April 1999,Indonesian soldiers and Timorese militias stormed into the village church, where 2,000 residents had sought refuge.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

continues to be a celebration of the profound change in this hemisphere as compared to many periods in the past when the hemisphere was marked by undemocratic governments.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Mr.Brown reiterated the number of helicopters has been increased by more than 60 percent during the past two years, but he promised more helicopters by the end of 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

David Nthengwe,a spokesman for the United Nations agency UNHCR based in eastern Congo, says that approximately 400,000 have been displaced in the region by the LRA in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

In the past 45 years, the World Health Organization says suicide rates have increased by 60 percent worldwide and it predicts these deaths will rise to 1.5 million by 2020.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Britain's political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties - the Conservatives, now led by David Cameron, and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The president talked not just about Turkey's future but its past, alluding to perhaps the most controversial moment in its history - the widespread killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

With a running time of nearly two hours, the film covers Mercer's award-winning career through new and archival interviews, and performances by the some of the greatest entertainers of the past century.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

They are steps that are working." Bernanke says the Federal Reserve and other economic policy makers have been challenged by unprecedented events in the past few years, but his objective has not changed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"They have been discouraged by this resolution Iran to take voluntary steps that we have taken in many occasions in the past, particularly the recent ones, when the director general was in Iran,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.28