But this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

During his childhood, the future senator attended ten different schools in several cities before he started college.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The message tells about different methods for guessing about the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

"The thing that stands in the way of a global agreement is the incredible inequity and the gulf between rich and poor which makes the future look very different, depending on where you live.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21