The Voice of America invites you to listen next week at the same time for another American story in Special English.
VOA: special.2009.03.07
And the Aristotelian view held for a long time, but eventually it started to crumble in the light of more data.
而亚里士多德的观点在很长时间里得到了认同,但最终还是崩溃了,在越来越多的数据面前。
it's very hard for the professors to schedule a lot of individual time for the people who can't make it.
教授很难为那些没法按时考试的考生另外安排时间。
The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.
VOA: special.2009.03.17
What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.
在这之前是很整洁的,之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。
For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.
VOA: special.2010.03.24
Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.
在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。
Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.
VOA: special.2010.02.04
The mutual fund theory that we gave last time said, no the mutual fund is just supposed to be diversifying for you.
但上节课讲到的共同基金定理认为,共同基金的目的是分散投资
Borman and Lovell proved that humans could survive in space for the time needed to get to the moon and back.
VOA: special.2009.07.01
Because there will not be time to look at that code for the first time during the quiz, and figure out what it's doing.
因为在考试中,是没有时间去第一次看代码,并弄懂它的意思的。
George Gershwin agreed to compose something for the concert before he realized how little time he had to do it.
VOA: special.2009.02.15
The glue, the key to identity across time for cars, is being the same hunk of stuff.
粘质,作为贯穿时间的车,其质的关键,就是要保持原来的这一大块。
When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her house and hurried through the forest.
VOA: special.2010.04.03
President Karzai has for a very long time want to bring the Taliban into the main stream.
很长时间依赖卡尔扎伊总统,就想把塔利班分子拉回主流社会。
They did so because it was illegal at the time for people of different races to marry in the United States.
VOA: special.2010.05.23
If you never meditate before, this is a wonderful opportunity to do it for the first time.
如果你从没冥想过,这是你们尝试的好机会。
The program is meant to help prisoners develop work skills for the time after they serve their sentences.
VOA: special.2009.10.06
Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.
有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量
In the United States, many people are also giving their time and energy to collect money and goods for the earthquake victims.
VOA: special.2010.02.05
Host: So I understand we have time for one more question and I'm going to take the liberty since I'm sitting here to ask it.
主持人:我想还有时间再问一个问题,还是我来问吧,反正都坐这儿了。
The vehicle is helping scientists to see for the first time huge areas underneath the lake that were otherwise impossible to explore.
VOA: special.2009.06.03
Each one of the boys was one of the gentlemen who lived in Hawaii at the time, and he was looking for bride and wrote a letter to a Japanese woman.
男生们扮演战争期间,住在夏威夷到的绅士们,他正在寻找新娘,给一名日本女人写了封信。
"But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope."
VOA: special.2009.04.17
For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.
在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出,即使不是一天到晚,也只有外出是例外,而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。
Finally,late in the summer of eighteen sixty-two, British leaders said the time had come for them to intervene.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
This says, if you want to be in the air for a long time, so you may think that 90 degrees is the best angle.
也就是说,如果你想在空中停留更久,你也许会认为 90°是最佳选择
The former football player and coach brought his excitement and love for the sport to television viewers every time he announced a game.
VOA: special.2009.05.01
It disappears and comes back, and at that time his mother, who is actually Freud's daughter, was going out to work for the first time on some days, and the boy was getting used to letting her go.
它又消失了之后又出现了,在那时他的妈妈,实际上是弗洛伊德的女儿,正准备,第一次出去工作一段时间,男孩正慢慢习惯,让她出去。
The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.
法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。
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