In Brazil,many people flock to Copacabana beach to ask the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea, Iemanja,a wish in exchange for a gift.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

Whoever sheds the blood of a person, in exchange for that person shall his blood be shed, for God made humans in his image .

凡流人血的，他的血也必将被人所流,因为神造人都是按照自己形象造的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Fed is taking on a serious risk in doing this because these assets that it takes on in exchange for Treasury securities could fail.

美联储这样做很有风险,因为这些他们作为国库证券交换来的,资产可能是个烂摊子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Israel has agreed in principal to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a captive soldier held for more than three years in Gaza.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Abducted workers are often released in exchange for a ransom payment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Sources in Mogadishu tell VOA that there are reports that some members of a hard-line Islamist insurgent group called Hisbul Islam arranged for the release of Obriere in exchange for a ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

In exchange for this, the owner would get a large share of the crop raised by the tenant farmer.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The committee proposed that miners accept a smaller pay increase in exchange for improved working conditions.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

This allowed for direct interaction. The Webcast quickly became a forum where thousands tuned in to discuss policies and exchange ideas.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Hamas is demanding the release of about a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit;

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Located in a former storefront, it is next to a recycling center where homeless and indigent men and women bring cans in exchange for money.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"Each side has a position,". He explained that Syria "may demand the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, while would demand peace for peace."

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Under the two countries' plan, Iran would send some of its uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel for use in a Tehran medical research reactor.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

North Korea agreed in principle in 2005 to scrap its nuclear program, including a presumed arsenal of several nuclear weapons, in exchange for energy aid and diplomatic benefits.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Venice stock exchange." Secchi and his friends are also responsible for a population counter that has been placed in the shop-window of a pharmacy in the city center.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Speaking a day after the Islamic militant group Hamas handed over the tape in exchange for the release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners, Noam Shalit said he does not expect a breakthrough.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"Rather than have Brazil retaliate against us, the U.S.has found a way to bribe Brazil,if you will, to not impose that retaliation in exchange for various things the U.S.says it will do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Nourizadeh says Iran was probably hoping to win the release of five Iranian military men captured by U.S.forces in Kurdistan in 2005 in exchange for Saberi, but eventually realized that such a trade would not work.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

The Saudis said they will not make concessions beyond a 2002 Arab plan put forth by King Abdullah which offered recognition in exchange for Israel's return of the occupied territories and allowance of a Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

were at the top of his agenda. An Arab summit, earlier this year, called for Israel to accept a 2002 Arab peace plan, which calls for "full normalization, in exchange for the return of occupied lands."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

They argued that more than $12 billion was spent on Pakistan during the previous Bush administration with little to show for it - a point underscored by Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in this exchange with Ambassador Holbrooke.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Now is the time to deliver on health care." The president said reform proposals which he estimates would cost would provide security and stability to the insured, and make it possible for tens of millions of Americans who are not to get affordable insurance through a proposed exchange system in which private companies would compete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11