The Thai government has indicated it may terminate its extradition treaty with Cambodia if Mr.Thaksin is not sent back to serve his sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Look again at the sentence that I just read, the last lines: Soon had his crew Op'nd into the Hill a spacious wound And dig'd out ribs of Gold."

再看一下我刚刚读过的句子，在最后几行：,不久，他带去的人马,凿开了那座山，画出一条很大的伤口,挖出黄金的肋条“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The prosecution had argued that Kasab changed his plea from innocent to guilty to secure a more-lenient sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

So it is simultaneously in his very first sentence a Marxist and a Darwinian vocabulary that Eikhenbaum is invoking, and that's what partly accounts for the strenuousness of his rhetoric.

所以艾肯鲍姆文章的第一句话同时引用了,达尔文主义和马克思主义，这部分解释了为什么,他的文章读起来那么吃力。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The judge said he had considered defense arguments for a lesser sentence because Selebi is 60 years old and it was his first offense.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Now, his language in that sentence that I just read from the introduction, "For by art", again, "is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state."

他在那句话里的说话,在引言里，我刚刚读过，号称“国民的整体“或“国家“的这个庞然大物,是用艺术造成的“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Libya has maintained that it was not responsible for the downing of Pan Am flight 103 and Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence, has maintained his innocence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Judge Mayer Joffe imposed the 15-year sentence on former national police chief Jackie Selebi, calling him an embarrassment to his country and the officers who served under him.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03