In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

That a free laborer is a mobile laborer, especially in a society like the United States that had this thing called The West, the limitless apparently to them anyway--boundless West.

自由劳动者是流动的,尤其处在美国这样的社会,有他们所说的广袤的西部,特别对他们来说,无边际的西部

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Soon there would be enough free states to control both the House and the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

But the United States has to free trade, and in that sense, it's likely to lean on the direction of keeping it open, the problems will arise if India does not reciprocate.

但美国非常坚决地,自由贸易，因而，其政策会倾向于,保持对外开放，如果印度不接受,这个机会营造互惠便会产生矛盾。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The committee had six members from slave states and six from free states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

They felt threatened by the free states and free territories all around them.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

But he believed that both California and New Mexico should be free states.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

This,he said,would lead to war between the slave-holding and free states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The United States Department of Education recently launched a free Web site designed to help immigrants learn English.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

It did not free all of the slaves in the United States, only those held by the rebels.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It said the Missouri Compromise was a violation of the United States Constitution, and that Dred Scott was not a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Finally,he asked the United States Supreme Court to decide if he was a slave or a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

For political reasons, the proclamation did not free slaves in the states that supported the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The American Lung Association says half of the fifty states have passed smoke-free laws.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The northern states fought the South to save the Union and free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

He said the United States offers some of the world's lowest barriers to trade -- and expects free and fair access to other countries in return.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

"Another way of looking at it is that a free agent in a sports league is the same thing as anybody else in the United States labor market.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

In the United States, free speech is protected by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The states thought the federal government would free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

At previous summits, the United States set forth an ambitious and still unattained goal: forging a vast, hemisphere-wide free-trade zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

So is cigarette smuggling. Smugglers stock up on cigarettes in low-tax states or buy them tax-free on Indian reservations.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Vice President Joe Biden says the United States has questions and doubts as to whether Iran's presidential vote was free and fair.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

A Sudanese government spokesman was quoted Sunday as saying that Mr.Bashir is free to travel anywhere in Africa, even in ICC member states.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

The president said the United States is prepared to engage in a dialogue with the Cuban government that includes human rights, free speech,democratic reform, migration,and economic issues.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17