In a telephone hook up to the Apollo 11 astronauts, Mr.Nixon paid tribute to their history-making accomplishment.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

In a way it's a tribute to the great creator and also an acknowledgement of the fact that the great creator lives in the Eternal Moment.

从一方面来看，这是对造物主的赞颂,也是在承认,造物主住在永恒的世界。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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"Traveling to Graceland during August on the anniversary of his passing or in January for his birthday is really just a tribute to the legacy,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Yeah,and they always say, 'And they got it?'" A fitting tribute to Gibran who wrote, "In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and joy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

Included on her latest album So In Love is a three-song tribute to Cole Porter, as well as her jazzy interpretations of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" and the Willie Nelson classic,"Crazy."

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"The death of five brave soldiers in a single incident is a terrible and tragic loss and I want to pay tribute, as the whole House will, to their professionalism and to their courage and service,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"I think we have got to pay a wonderful tribute to a man to whom we owe all of this, he is in Johannesburg and if we make a loud enough noise he will hear us and so we say, halala Nelson Mandela."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11