The use of fluoride to protect teeth is common in many parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

So the aim of this class is to make common sense more common, especially in the real world application.

所以本课程的目标是让常识更平常，特别是应用到实际中。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Malaria causes a million deaths per year, and schistosomiasis, which is a parasitic disease, is unfortunately a common cause of death in the world.

疟疾每年造成一百万死亡,而血吸虫病,这是一种寄生虫病,不幸的是,它是世界上很常见的死因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Orchids are among the most common plant groups in the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

So, an alternative to that that is incredibly common in just the programming world and in industry is to actually not write programs on your own personal computer but to actually write and run them on a server, someplace where the software is all standardized.

那么，在编程界和工业界普遍,使用的一个解决方案是,不在你自己的电脑上写程序,而是在服务器上编程运行，服务器上的软件都是标准化的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Black outs were common during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

And so scenes like this are becoming more and more common around the world.

在全世界,这种情况,变得越来越普遍

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Geithner said a common approach in a world of global markets is crucial.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Some have even argued that there is an intuitive biology, a common-sense biological understanding of the world that's separate from your understanding of people and physics.

有些人甚至认为,大脑中存在着一个直觉生物学模块,这是一种与所具有的人类及物理学知识,并不相同的常识性生物学知识

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Today,Northern Ireland stands as an example to the world of how even the staunchest adversaries can overcome differences to work together for the common and greater good,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

I have left out meat and fish, of course, neither of them very common in this part of the world, but meat was common enough, because there were sheep and there were goats, even when beef would have been very hard to get.

当然我没提到肉和鱼,它们在希腊都不是很常见,但相对来说肉类已经相当常见了,因为即使在牛肉都很难搞到的时候,这里还有着绵羊和山羊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some of the world's most powerful leaders, along with their finance chiefs are meeting at London's ExCel Center to try to forge common ground on tackling the world's economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

Smallpox affected world history hundreds of years ago, and it was a disease that was common in Europe, but not common in the Americas until the Americas were colonized.

天花影响了几个世纪前的历史,这种病在欧洲很常见,但在美国不多见,直到美国成为殖民地

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso hailed what he called Europe's common approach to battling the crisis ahead of the G-20 meeting in London of top world economies in early April.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

And it turned out that another, not quite as deadly, but still very serious disease called syphilis was also common in this part of the world at that time.

现在已知另外一种疾病,它并不完全致命但也很严重,它叫梅毒,在那时的一些地方也很常见

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Clinton,who insisted India can make emission cuts without harming its economy, said she is optimistic the two governments can reach a common approach before the world conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Despite a $1 trillion rescue plan approved by eurozone nations to give low cost loans to member countries, the continuing weakness of Europe's common currency has driven many of the world's leading stock markets to their lowest levels this year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"President Obama has made it clear that the United States will not be defined simply by what we are against, but by what we are for the opportunity,liberties, prosperity and common aspirations we share with the rest of the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Once common in Europe and the United States, cases of obstetric fistula now occur almost entirely in the developing world where poor nutrition and girls giving birth before their pelvis is fully developed contribute to the risks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

I am sure Nigeria is one of , and we must get ready to face those new cases being forecast by the World Health Organization. Dr.Ahmed says the most common cancers among those expected to increase are of the breast, cervix,colon,lungs and prostate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16