A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

So the inventor of the chess game-- he was in India, and went to the local king.

象棋游戏的发明人-,他在印度，去见当地的国王。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So if you are in an English-speaking country, my advice to you is to go out on the street and be local.

所以，如果你在说英语的国家，我建议你像当地人一样到街上去。

在英语系国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Alan Greenspan, in his book, says that he thinks housing markets are all local and there is no--he says this firmly in his book there is no national housing market.

艾伦·格林斯潘在他书中写道,他认为房地产市场具有地域性,他在书中断言,不存在全国性的房地产市场

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In October of eighteen thirty-three, he won a short story contest organized by a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

It's a little bit like the NAIC -the National Association of Insurance Commissioners -recommends laws to the local insurance regulators in the fifty United States.

这有点像NAIC,美国保险监督官协会,它对全美国50个州的,地方保险监管机构推荐法律法规

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In high school, he won a local competition to design an advertisement for an anti-trash campaign.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

A number of African-Americans serve in the local government.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Local education authorities say rates of early marriage and pregnancy among girls aged 10-18 in Senegal's southern regions are alarming.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Pakistani police say the men were detained during a raid on the home of a local leader of the banned militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad, in Pakistan's Punjab province.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

China's Commerce Ministry says it is looking into accusations from local producers that American auto and chicken meat products are being dumped in China at below-cost prices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

About two-thirds of those surveyed say the supply of electricity in their local areas is bad, and a third of the respondents report having no access to any electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In the days since a local court handed out two-year prison terms to seven former Indian employees of Union Carbide, many searching questions have been raised about the verdict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The masked "devils" of the local women's secret society dance to traditional drums in the tiny village of Dugba-yeima, hidden in the remote hills along Sierra Leone's eastern border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

- bringing in millions of dollars to the local economy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, lists stormwater as the primary cause of water pollution in the United States, and encourages local communities to develop management plans to treat run-off before it pollutes their rivers, lakes or streams.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04