He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

That caused a rebellion and they overthrew the kings, and thereafter, the word king was a dirty word in Roman history.

该事件引发了叛乱,叛军推翻了国王,从此之后,"国王"这个词在罗马历史上成了一个脏字

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When I say dirty, I am referring mostly to like a graffiti. There's a lot of graffiti on walls, on buildings.

我说的脏，主要指的是涂鸦。大楼墙上到处画满了乱七八糟的涂鸦。

哈莱姆很独特 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he comes into the house with dirty,wet shoes.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Faulkner said he saw in his mind a dirty little girl playing in front of her house.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Several times at public executions in 1698 and 1699, he brushed the executioner away, grabbed the axe and did the dirty work himself, chopping off a head or two.

在1698年和1699年的数次公开行刑里,他轰走了刽子手,抄起斧子亲自动手,手刃了几个囚犯

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Before that,she had lived with her mother and father in a dirty,crowded factory town.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We don't often train to do it in an environment, what we call a dirty environment, where there is a radiological enemy here."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Campbell said she had been given a "few dirty pebbles" in the middle of the night.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Well, i mean a cockroach might be seen as being harmful because we consider them dirty, disgusting, revolting insects and we don't define insects as something we eat, at least in our culture.

蟑螂看起来可能是有害的,因为我们觉得它脏,恶心,是令人厌恶的害虫,我们不把害虫定义为食物,至少在我们的文化中是这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But the acquisition of radioactive material for a so-called 'dirty bomb,' which is radioactive material that is dispersed with a conventional explosive device, that is not that challenging.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

I think Republicans play a dirty game of politics,

我认为共和党在政治游戏中玩得很烂，

两党制度的优缺点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Experts say terrorist groups are seeking materials for a crude nuclear device - a so-called "dirty bomb" - that would have limited blast potential but could spread radiation in a major urban area.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

but the fact is they are intelligent, ambitious,motivated and to be just a pawn in the story of a whole bunch of men fighting it out,rolling around and getting down-and-dirty, while there you are just a vision in a tight cat-suit is just a boring thing."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19