I imagined I was really flying across an ocean in an airplane, looking over my notes for a big story while on the way to Constantinople or Khartoum.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

But they're two individuals who are committed to being with the other person in a respectful, generous, kind manner while disagreeing on some fundamental things.

但是他们两个人都努力,倾听对方,以相互尊重，宽宏大量并且友善的态度和谐共处,尽管他们在一些基本问题上各持己见。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

OCW Self learners are coming to OCW to explore whole new areas of study as well as to brush up on subjects that they took a while ago and perhaps got the rest in the end.

自学者浏览,搜索全新领域的研究,补充学过的科目的知识,使之完整。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Rihanna's disc opened in fourth place on the US chart, while Chris had to settle for a seventh-place debut.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So, real dreams are you're in a submarine wrestling a chicken while your grandmother looks disapprovingly on.

真正的梦是指那些,梦见自己在潜艇里和鸡摔跤,而你奶奶在一旁看得不以为然。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Her performance of "I Dreamed A Dream" left many in tears, while becoming the year's most-watched video clip on YouTube.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

While in New York, Mr.Obama also addressed a high-level summit on climate change,called by U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Remember, this is a time, as we'll see in a while, where the czar was on the road a lot, and distances in the Russian empire are enormous.

要记得一点,我们后面还会讲到,因为彼得大帝经常外出,而当时的俄帝国幅员辽阔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The two became friends just after high school while on a student exchange program in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

President Nimeiri was overthrown in a coup in 1985, while on a visit to the United States, and spent 14 years in exile in neighboring Egypt.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.

但如果我加入之前，他们要往我头上泼牛粪,要我穿着女内裤在雨中站一个月,他们还朝我扔石头,事后我就会想,”为了加入这个兄弟会我吃了不少苦头“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The work ended up in a Vienna museum, but was seized by the U.S.government while it was on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Israel has been agitated by President Obama's plan to open a dialogue with Iran, while pressing for a one year freeze on Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

The Institute for Peace study argues that by keeping a tight rein on their people while supporting U.S.security interests in their regions, nations such as Yemen,Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan fan anti-American sentiments.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

This year, the team's experience shows, with Johnny Spillane earning his first World Cup win in early January while Lodwick finished on the podium in two events and Demong won a World Cup event in October.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

A camera only shows women's legs walking on high heels disappearing in the crowd, while an announcer encourages women to vote "independently" in the presidential and local elections Sunday in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Two of Chirac's former prime ministers, Alain Juppe and Dominique de Villepin, have both stood trial on separate charges, while ex-interior minister Charles Pasqua was sentenced to prison in a third trial that ended this week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

While Israel has imposed a partial freeze on construction in the West Bank, government spokesman Mark Regev says that does not apply to Jerusalem, which Israel says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Earlier this month, five World Food Program employees were killed in a suicide blast in neighboring Pakistan, and last week a Pakistani officer assigned to a U.N.peacekeeping mission in Sudan was gunned down while on home leave in Islamabad.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Yargeris Savigne of Cuba came out on top in the triple jump with a leap of 14.95 meters, while Spain's Marta Domnguez took the gold medal in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, with a world leading time of 9 minutes,7.32 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.18

He said Iranian authorities have used meetings with countries like Brazil and Turkey to appear to offer what he termed "a veneer of cooperation" while really offering nothing in terms of a meaningful response on the nuclear issue.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14