But Ryan says that's not the main reason the number of commercial lobster boats has dropped in the Boston Harbor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

In 1931 they dropped convertibility of the pound sterling still called pound sterling even though it's not silver it was gold.

在1931年，他们放弃了英镑的可兑换性,仍然叫做英镑的话,即便它不是银，而是金。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the East Bay, it dropped about 30% in prices,

在东湾，它的价格降了大约30%，

美国的不动产市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

So the gold standard ended in the 1930s and every country dropped it.

所以，三十年代，金本位制度结束,每个国家都放弃使用它。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The figures in the two efforts reveal an anomaly: While Cambodia has succeeded in dramatically cutting the ratio of children who die each year, the maternal mortality figure has not dropped in a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

It dropped dramatically in the period from 1954-- this is these filled black bars refer to this axis, polio cases per 100,000 population dropped down to only three or four cases by 1956.

患病率在一九五四年后的,一段时间里急剧下降,该坐标轴上的这些黑色柱形图表明,到一九五六年,小儿麻痹症的发病率,已经降低至每十万人中仅三到四人发病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The value of stock for the Montgomery Ward store dropped from eighty-three dollars to fifty in a single day.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

I've added the ability to have more complex data structures here. But I dropped a hint in the first lecture about what you could computer with things. In fact if you think for a second about that list, you could ask what can I compute with just that set of constructs?

我添加了使用更复杂的数据结构的能力,但是我在第一节课给大家了了一个,关于你可以用什么来做计算的暗示,实际上如果你思考,这个列表一会儿的话,你会问我可以用？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In pursuit of wisdom, " every day something is dropped."

为学日益，为道日损“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

As soon as the Civil War broke out and Lincoln called for volunteers in late April 1861, Uriah Parmelee dropped out of his Junior year at Yale and he joined the first regiment he could get into.

内战爆发时,林肯在1861年四月末召集志愿兵,大三的乌利亚从耶鲁辍学,好不容易入了伍

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Researchers say the water availability in some of the areas has dropped well below the internationally recognized standard.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The United States dropped it in 1933 and other countries did it later.

然后1933年，美国放弃了金本位制度3,其他国家也在此之后也相继放弃。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it said foreign language teaching in public elementary and middle schools dropped sharply in recent years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Spending on weddings has reportedly dropped about ten percent in recent years because of the economic recession.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

In the East, one storm dropped lots of snow on communities from North Carolina to the New England states on the weekend before Christmas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Nick formed the band in two thousand five, The Jonas Brothers started with Columbia records but were dropped from the label after their first album.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Farmers working in the fields saw the train and dropped to their knees in prayer.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

A separate report in December said the number of men and women dying of cancer in the United States had dropped for the first time on record.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In five of them, the rate at which fish are being taken out of the sea has dropped to a level that should let the populations recover.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Faced with expected losses of $7 billion in 2010, the Postal Service says Saturday delivery should be dropped altogether.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

"We must remember that BP merged with the American oil company Amoco and dropped the Amoco label in 2001.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The 32-year-old rapper, who swiftly dropped from sight after his MTV incident in September, is a 12-time Grammy Award winner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

In September,the United Nations said the estimated number of deaths of children under age five had dropped from the previous year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Much has changed in Iraq in the last two years. Despite a series of recent attacks, violence has dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Violence in Iraq has dropped significantly during the past year, but insurgents continue to stage sporadic attacks on security forces and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26