Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Now remember, we went through before how it's a state function but to calculate it, you'd need to find a reversible path, along which you can figure this out.

请记住，我们不需要知道它是怎样的一个态函数,只计算就可以了，你需要找到一条可逆路径，沿着这条路径就能算得这个结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

You'd rather be in the state of nature, at least on April 15th.

所以至少在四月十五日，你宁愿处于自然状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Last month,Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated the winners at an awards ceremony in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

So we'd really like to be able to find some sort of equation of state, or some sort of rather function of state that's going to relate the heat going in or out of the system with that function of state, because this isn't going to do it.

所以我们真的想要去,找到一些态方程或者态函数,通过这个态函数可以表示热量,在系统与外界的交换,因为这个不能表示它。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the announcement last month in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.

这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Last week, state champions from around the country met in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Now, I figuredsince I'd run this far, maybe I'd just run acrossthe great state of Alabama.

VOA: standard.other

The State Department on Thursday stopped short of formally calling Mr.Zelaya's ouster a military coup d'etat, which carries with it harsher aid penalties mandated by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03