It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Yeah. Meatpacking District, for me, the idea of meatpacking was like a meat market.

是的。肉品市场区，对我来说，肉品加工就像一个肉类市场。

关于肉品市场区 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

with all of the financial buildings and the financial district and the banks

这儿有所有的金融大楼、金融地区、银行、

关于伦敦的全部 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Matthew Lukwiya was the medical administrator of Saint Mary's Hospital in the Gulu District of northern Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

In terms of the Meatpacking District, it used to be very bare.

就拿肉品市场区来说吧，那里从前很荒芜。

肉品市场区的变迁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The round stone structure honors people from the District of Columbia who died in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

It's all built purely to house the sort of financial district.

主要是修建金融地区的办公用房。

现代化的地方 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We thought that that would be it." But the day after the fire, the mayor of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty,took action.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Clay said there was equal justice in his resolutions ending the slave trade in the District of Columbia and strengthening laws on the return of runaway slaves.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It said nothing about slavery in the nation's capital, the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

They represent the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and five United States territories.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

It would not continue the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It is the only District of Columbia memorial on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

We are in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

It ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The D.C.stands for District of Columbia, a federal district.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

He proposed that no more slaves be sold in the District of Columbia for use outside the federal district, but also proposed that slavery should not be ended in the district unless its citizens and those of Maryland approved.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The District of Columbia now joins five states -- Connecticut,Iowa,Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- with a law legalizing same sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

(VOICE) In June,Harper taught his last class in instrumental music in the school district of Yonkers, a suburb north of New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Opponents say District of Columbia residents should have been able to vote on the issue.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

John Fraser is the mayor of the District of Tofino, which is in the middle of Vancouver Island on the west coast, and the terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Alphonsine Murebwayire, who works for the Kicukiro district of Kigali, where most of those being buried today are from, says it's important to bring the bodies here to the center.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

(Sound) Clinton received a boisterous welcome from about 2,000 Filipino school children as she visited the Marikina district of Manila that was inundated by floodwaters from Typhoon Ketsana in late September.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Last year, the court ruled the 2nd amendment to the U.S.Constitution's protects the right of an individual citizen to own a handgun in the District of Columbia, a federally governed enclave.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

U.S.military officials said the commando operation took place in the coast district of Barawe in southern Somalia, which is heavily controlled by al-Shabab, a radical Islamist terrorist group thought to have direct links with al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

In the rural district of Kitgum in northern Uganda, soldiers are reportedly taking part in medical, dental and engineering projects that not only test their ability to work together, but can assist the local community.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Iraqi police said that a bomb, hidden near the front gate of the Rasheed market in the Dora district of Baghdad, went off as trucks loaded with fruits and vegetables were waiting to enter the market to unload.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

"As a former prosecutor, commercial litigator, district court judge and appellate judge, she certainly brings a wealth of unique experience."

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They were part of the city's Green Summer Job Corps, a project of the District Department of the Environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The Cultural District is a fourteen block area of downtown that includes public spaces, art galleries and six major theaters.

VOA: special.2009.07.13