It's about decades and decades," EJ's mother,Hope Davis, says she believes registries will help to improve the lives of children born with heart defects in the future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

It's exposing defects in many of our biggest financial institutions and every day we see more news about failures, huge losses, resignations, or firings of top finance people.

这次金融危机暴露了,很多大型金融机构存在的问题,每天我们都看到很多关于,破产,巨额亏损,或者金融业高层,辞职或被炒鱿鱼的新闻

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now, I know you've had all this bonding in the orientation period, but I think that it's much better when you write a test for there to be some solid state defects known as vacancies in between the various people.

现在，我知道你们关系很融洽,在互相介绍的时间里，但是我想这样会更好,当你们在一起做一个测试,成为固体化学的不良产品,成为众多人当中的缺位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So when the automaker announced plans to stop selling millions of its cars in the United States and Europe last month because of gas pedal defects, the Japanese were concerned.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15