Then when he was not looking, I dropped one of my gloves on the floor under my chair.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

After a while, there were stretches where red gullies dropped off on either side of the road, and behind them there were patches of field buttoned together with 666 posts.

过了一会，有几段路,红色的排水沟在道路两旁延伸，后面是一块块的田地,一共有666根插在上面。

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But, I've dropped that assumption and now I'm going on to assuming that they're taking account of their dependence on each other, taking account of their different expected returns, and taking account of their different covariances and variances; so that's what we've got.

不过我已经放弃了那个假定,我现在假定,我们需要考虑它们彼此间的相关性，它们有着不同期望收益，不同的协方差和方差;,这是我们所学到的。

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Today,scientists say a person dropped on the top of the mountain would live no more than ten minutes.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,a military base.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

President Harry Truman announced to the world about the first bomb: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Less than one month after the test at Alamogordo, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

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

VOA: special.2009.08.13

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

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

Prices for producers have dropped. And low-priced copies are on the market.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

On Tuesday,Megrahi dropped his appeal, which would have opened the door to a close examination of the evidence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

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

The EU also dropped remaining sanctions imposed against Uzbekistan, following a 2005 crackdown on an uprising there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

That idea was dropped amid disagreements, but members say they still want to agree on some kind of "safety net" for international banking.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

The number of rockets from Gaza falling on the town has dropped sharply since the war.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Many of the teens dropped their plastic gloves on the mountainside along the way.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

(Talking) A weekend blizzard dropped hip-deep snow on much of the eastern United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Army commandos dropped from a helicopter examined the mangled and burnt wreckage on the slope of a heavily-forested hill, in an area infested with Maoist rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The documents come from an appeal against his 2001 conviction, which was dropped just before he was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds last month.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

The Russian national budget relies heavily on taxes from the sale of oil and other natural resources, and oil prices have dropped sharply over the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

"Just kind of uh, just stepped off the cliff and said 'okay where's that microphone.' Made a short couple of comments and then put the mic down and dropped down on one knee and.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Under the agreement, given final approved by the U.S.Congress last year, India agreed to open non-military nuclear sites to international inspections, and the United States dropped non-proliferation curbs on India opening the way for Indian purchases of U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29