Of the 183 countries voting, Myanmar's ambassador,Than Swe, said if western countries are truly concerned about human rights in his country or any other they should adopt a cooperative approach, instead of a resolution that he called "out of step with the times we live in."

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.

懂得如何修车,对吗，如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑，性技巧，说一门或多门外语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

If you look back over it, there was no major or minor in western music up until about sixteenth century, and then people started writing these things called madrigals, that were tied to texts.

如果回顾下历史,大家会发现直到十六世纪,西方世界才出现大调和小调,那时人们开始写一种叫做牧歌的曲子,并配上歌词

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He suggested that Western critics had never known real hunger, and wondered if they had ever watched their children go hungry.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In other places, infectious disease is a much bigger part of their life and a much greater risk of death from infectious diseases and parasitic diseases if you live in places other than the U. S. or Western Europe, for example.

在其他地区,感染性疾病,对当地人们的生活构成了更大威胁,他们死于感染性疾病或者,寄生虫之类疾病风险更高,如果你生活在,美国或欧洲之外的地方的话

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Much more from Plato. So again it raises the issue, if you want to know most about the most influential aspects for Western civilization, would it be better for you to take an entire semester on Plato than it would on the New Testament?

源自柏拉图，所以又回到这个问题上了，如果你想了解,西方文明最有影响力的方方面面，那是不是参加有关柏拉图课程,比新约课程更有用呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

If he does,it would be the first time in the western state's history that a sitting governor lost his seat in a primary election.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

The bar is called Pewex, the name of a chain of hard-currency stores from the communist era where Poles could buy Western products if they had the dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The al-Shabab commander said at the news conference that if Burundian and Ugandan troops have entered the conflict on behalf of the Western-backed transitional federal government, then the Islamist opposition fighters should also receive foreign help.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16