An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

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The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

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"There were some problems with some tactics, techniques and procedures, the way in which close air support was supposed to have been executed in this case, such that, at least with one of the aircraft involved, a B-1 bomber, that plane because of how it takes its bombing routes had to break away from positive I.D.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

In William James, maybe the case-- because the elevator-- it does take two hours to get there for the door to close.

在William，James大厅也许会遇到这种事-,因为那部电梯-,运作得太慢。

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