At the Indy 500 race in May, Helio Castroneves of Brazil took the checkered flag for the third time in his career, just weeks after a jury had cleared him of U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

I was kicked out of school when I was in third grade for refusing to salute the flag.

我在三年级的时候,因为拒绝向国旗敬礼而被退学。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a little puzzle piece that says when the green flag is clicked and this is kind ; of like the beginning of a program; when you double click an icon on your desktop this is how something like that is implemented; it's listening for that double click, it's listening for that green flag.

是一小个按钮，它的意思是,何时点击绿色旗帜,这就好比开始运行程序;,当你双击桌面上的图标,就开始执行操作,桌面的图标需要双击，绿色小旗也等待点击来执行命令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For example, the flag had forty-eight stars for forty-seven years, from nineteen twelve until nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

When people today for example refer to flag burning as a desecration as desecrating the flag they are speaking ! the language of impiety right.

例如今日人们认为,焚烧旗帜即是亵渎神圣,如同亵渎旗帜,即是亵渎神明，是吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The eight-legged sea creature had two boxes to choose from - one marked with a flag from the Netherlands and another with the flag of Spain - and it was the yellow and red banner he went for.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

It doesn't mean that they grew up south of the Mason-Dixon Line or wave a certain kind of flag or--but the older term for it was "stooge."

那不意味着,他们成长于梅森—狄克森线以南,挥动某种旗帜,或者-但是更广泛是“stooge“表示助手“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选