Other men,also looking for gold, had reached the Stanislau hills of California many years before I did.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Composed 1629" -- whether or not that's actually true, and there's some controversy about that -- but nonetheless, the subtitle announces to all who know John Milton that the poet was twenty-one years old at the moment of its composition and that he had therefore just reached his majority.

作于1629“-不管它是否属实，尽管对此也有一些争议，但它向所有知道他的人宣告,诗人创作这首诗时只有21岁,因此他已经超过了多数同龄人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A few days earlier, expedition leader Edward Norton had reached a record height of eight thousand five hundred seventy-three meters before he turned back.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Wallace had reached these ideas from his studies on islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

The report said home ownership of insecticide-treated nets had reached fifty percent in thirteen of the thirty-five African countries with the highest cases of malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Within two weeks, more than fifty thousand had reached Fort Monroe, southeast of Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

By the time Norma Jean had reached the age of twenty-six, her beautiful face and body earned her a place as one of America's leading movie stars.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

By nineteen hundred, the number of miners had reached almost seven hundred thousand.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Clara Barton had reached ne of her major goals in life.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

It had reached the collector, Henry Kriegstein,through sales.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The Gemini program had reached all its goals.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

And it had reached Gettysburg first.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

By December they had reached Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

The Lady in Black looked at it. She remembered the wave of anger that had come over her when she had reached out her hand and silenced the clock that night three months before.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

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

Democrats in the House of Representatives announced they had reached a compromise on just how to pay for the costly reform measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The North also said it had reached the final stage of a uranium enrichment program, possibly creating a second process by which it can build nuclear arms.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

In this study, the research team developed a new statistical way of analyzing the genetic code of people who had reached age 100 as compared with people who had a more typical lifespan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

It was the hand that Beatrice had grabbed in hers when he reached for one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

But when the telescope reached orbit, NASA scientists were shocked to discover that the costly mirror of the telescope had not been shaped correctly.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Once they reached the farm house, they had to stay in hiding.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The ice over the river had melted when he reached it.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

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

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

President Ahmedinejad concluded Sunday's public session, noting that "historic, constructive agreements" had been reached.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24