In nineteen ninety, first lady Barbara Bush's Springer spaniel Millie told about her life in the White House in "Millie's Book."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Now today, the standard mortgage, which you would probably get when you buy your first house, is not fifteen or twenty--it's thirty years.

今天,标准的抵押贷款,当你买第一套房子时你或许就能得到,期限不是15或者20年,而是30年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's because, well, when you buy your first house you might be twenty-five, so thirty years brings you to age fifty-five; that's close enough to retirement.

这是因为,你可能在25岁时买第一套房子,当还清30年的贷款时你已经55岁了,都快退休了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the first broadcasts came from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in nineteen ten.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

You go to your first house: "Trick or..." Snap!" It broke.

你去了第一个人家：,“不给糖就。。。“啪嗒，橡皮筋断了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The first test of the new government's popularity may come next year in upper house elections in Japan.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

He says in the middle of the poem on page 225: First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.

他在225页这首诗的中间说到：,首先是假扮的孩子们的房间，松树下的一碟碟食物，那些玩具室里孩子们的玩具。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

He is a house-servant, first-rate cook, and splendid carriage driver.

他是个仆人,一流的厨师,出色的马车夫

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Next week,Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is to become the first foreign leader to visit the new president at the White House.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

When you first bought the house they told you what the mortgage payment was and they're fixing that forever, well for thirty years.

最初你买这套房子的时候,他们已经告诉你每月偿还额是多少,在未来30年里这是固定的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For the first time in eighteen years, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

When you first buy a house most of your payment is going to interest.

在贷款的初期,你偿还的主要是利息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The garden will be the first on the White House lawn since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

When I first started teaching this course and had six students, I remember one day sitting in Leverett House, having lunch by myself and one of the students comes in and says, "can I join you?" "Sure." we have lunch.

当我开始教授这门课时,有六名学生，我记得有一天坐在学生宿舍里，独自用餐，一名学生走进来说，“能一起吃吗？““当然“，我们共进午餐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It first appeared that he might have a clear path to the White House.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

In fact, the next First Lady has called her White House position, "Mom-in-Chief."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

"I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

President Obama made the announcement at the White House after first informing the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The party that controls the White House historically loses congressional seats in a new president's first mid-term elections.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

He always puts his right ski boot on first, he touches his helmet and goggles two dozen times before leaving the start house.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Historically,the party that controls the White House loses Congressional seats in a new president's first midterm election.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

She says the first Hawaiian-born president has brought the island culture and mind-set to the White House.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

At first it appeared that he might have a clear path to the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Nancy Pelosi made history on January 4,2007 when she was sworn in as the first female speaker of the U.S.House of Representatives in its 218-year history.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

Ms.Merkel is the first German leader to speak before a joint meeting of Congress, and the first to address the House or Senate since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

President Obama's first public comments on the dramatic developments in Kabul came as he wrapped up a meeting at the White House with the Prime Minister of Sweden.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

the latest single from American Saturday Night. He recently performed the song and several others at the White House for President Barack Obama, the first lady and members of Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

And last June,says Sittenfeld, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first bill out of either chamber of Congress to directly take on the challenge of global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25