More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

When World War One began he was seventy-four.

一战开始的时候他已经七十四岁了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

at the end of their four years, that they feel cultured and familiar with, um, I guess the Western world,

让学生在四年的学习之后具备一定的文化素养，能够熟知西方世界及其文化。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

World leaders agreed this week to protect all nuclear materials within four years to stop the possibility of nuclear terrorism.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

I'll give you four food companies, and tell me which one you think is the world's largest.

我将列出四家食品公司,请大家告诉我你认为,哪一家公司是世界最大的食品公司

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But he points out that technology has also made new music available to people all over the world twenty-four hours a day.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The World Health Organization says passengers who sit still for four or more hours face a greater risk of developing blood clots.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Americans spend the most time out of any other people in the world volunteering in average four hours a week, volunteering outside their job which may also have a social objective more than any other people in the world.

比其他任何人所花的时间都多,平均每周有四个小时做志愿者的工作，做与自身工作无关的善事,他们比世界上其他人更具社会目标。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But he was killed in nineteen forty-four during service as a Navy pilot in World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

We begin to know more about three or four hundred years down the road, when there appear buildings and settlements in the world later inhabited by the Greeks, as we know, to which we give the name Mycenaean.

约三四百年之后当这块希腊人聚居的土地,出现了建筑和住宅群,我们才开始对它有了更多的了解,并将其命名为今天人人皆知的"迈锡尼文明"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In nineteen ninety-four, she did her best to warn the world that Rwanda was sliding into genocide.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The Website Everestnews.com says over four hundred forty people reached the top of the world's highest mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

FIFA,the international football federation, says the United States has twenty-four million soccer players-second in the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Over the past four years he traveled around the world with recording equipment and video cameras in an effort to unite people through music.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

She spent the next four years documenting the events and the world's failure the intervene.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He was eighty-four years old. Joel Breman says,"Doctor Close left his mark on the world."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Four days later, the World Health Organization declared it a worldwide health threat.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time all around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It was the largest suspension bridge in the world until nineteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

"I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

A World Bank report issued this year says the average Israeli gets four times as much water as the average Palestinian.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

The Dutch have won all four of their World Cup matches so far, and Brazil coach Dunga describes them as a very difficult opponent.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Naturally it's called Four Corners. Nearby,you'll find the Painted Desert with sand of many colors, and the world's largest site of petrified prehistoric rock.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

She says a four-year scientific study initiated by the World Bank says there is little role for genetic modification in feeding the poor on a large scale.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The World Gold Council recently forecast gold mine output to climb by four percent in 2009 to about 2,500 metric tons, but that will meet only two-thirds of demand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"There was a little bit of a delay, but I think in the last four or five months, we have seen renewed emphasis being put again on improving relations with the Muslim world and dialogue and on implementing the promises of the Cairo speech."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11