A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

I have to say that Shelly Kagan is probably the best lecturer I had in my four years at Yale."

我不得不说薛立·卡刚很可能是,我在耶鲁四年所遇到的最好的演讲者“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The best food we had is... There's a stall just at the entrance of Borough Market

我们吃过最好吃的是……在博罗市集的入口有一个小摊，

推荐鱼卷 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By this time, Jackson had decided that Van Buren would be the best man to follow him as president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

I had to ask them questions like, "What's the best present you've ever got?

我得问他们像这样的问题，“你收到过的最好的礼物是什么？”

在超市遇到的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Douglas believed that, of the other candidates, Abraham Lincoln had the best chance of winning the presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

I've had all three, so I think I would say, "Get yourself some fresh legs, I've had the opportunity to do the best that I can do. I'm very prond of it, and I'll be glad to help you find somebody else who will feel the same way.

现在我三个职位都担任过了，给你自己找点新伙计吧，我有机会尽我所能,做到自己满意，我感到很自豪，我非常乐意帮助你找到其他,会和我的感觉一样的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Best of all, I loved writing about the game on an old typewriter I had borrowed from someone in my father's office.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

I know that Player 2's best response for every possible choice of Player 1, which if we had done it would be q2 hat is going to a -c over 2b--q1 over 2, right?

参与人1不同策略下参与人2的最佳对策,即q2帽等于/2b - q1/2

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

He didn't seem to need the money. He had many friends among the best families of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They found that the best position for gliding had the back two wings in a position similar to that of a flying squirrel.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Before he became a power hitter, he had been among the best pitchers of his time.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

He and a girl,Elinor White, had the best record of the students graduating that year.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

It wasn't easy, but we slowly rebuilt those neighborhoods one block at a time, and in the process I received the best education I ever had."

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He had also been named best president in a similar study in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Southern General Joe Johnston said: "Mr. Lincoln was the best friend we had.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

He had been married to Taylor's best friend and popular actress Debbie Reynolds.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

Since then Dave Brubeck has had many different quartets His best known jazz works include "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke" and "Blue Rondo a La Turk."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Brown had decided to capture, as his best hostage, Colonel Lewis Washington.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Still,he had one of his best years in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

He called her the best jazz singer he had ever heard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

I had a best way I can get it.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

A friend of Webster's described the meeting in these words: "Mister Clay came to Mister Webster's house and had a long talk with him about the best way to settle the difficulties growing out of slavery and the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It was one of the best experiences I've had in Asia. Great fun,very safe and very comfortable vehicles too."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The best treatment available was arsenic, so that was what people reached for when they had unexplained health problems."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09