This was done to permit the Colorado River to flow away from the construction area.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Phineas Gage was a construction worker about 100 years ago.

大约一百年前,菲尼亚斯·盖奇是一名建筑工人

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It all began three or four years ago when there was construction boom.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Economists say much of China's growth in the past year was the result of stimulus efforts, including rapid lending growth that funded new housing and factory construction.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

U.S.incomes edged slightly higher, and construction spending was also up.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In 1848--He was a construction foreman.

848年，他是一个建筑工头。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I paid off as much as I could." Zahwe Samouni had little cash left and was unable to find enough construction materials, but she managed to build a two-room cinderblock house.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Now five years later Nadija Prijma regrets that she and her husband returned from neighboring Slovakia, where she was a baby sitter and cleaned homes while her husband worked in the construction business.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Taysir Dwayat is the father of Hussam Dwayat, a Palestinian construction worker who was shot dead last July when he went on a rampage with a bulldozer, killing three Israelis in Jewish West Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comes to Cairo after angering many Arabs by offering praise for an Israeli offer to curb settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land, an offer that was met with outrage by many Arabs, who continue to demand Israel halt all construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The house in Tecun Uman has been at the service of migrants for more than a dozen years, explains Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest from Brazil, who supervised the construction of the house on the site of what was a city garbage dump.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01