Ethiopia has denied persistent reports that Ethiopian troops are actively engaged in Somalia's civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Her statement points to a persistent worry, and it's a worry that exists even now in the twentieth century about the nature of Milton's power.

她的陈述不断透露着忧虑，这种忧虑一直持续到现在20世纪,关于弥尔顿之力量的本性的忧虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.

这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That flooding and persistent power cuts sparked riots in the Pikine neighborhood where people barricaded roads with burned tires and smashed the windows of a police vehicle.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But Sow says it's difficult to get adults to change, for example, to stop using pesticides on their tomatoes and other crops, which he says is a persistent problem in the village.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

One of the texts of de Man -also in the book called Allegories of Reading where you'll find also a version of the essay "Semiology and Rhetoric" one of the essays that those who had actually read de Man actually argued about in a persistent fashion is called "The Purloined Ribbon."

德曼的一篇文章,同样在《阅读的寓言》这本书中能找到,在这本书中还能找到“符号学与修辞“的一个版本“,这是一篇读过德曼的人都会,不停争论的文章，它叫“偷窃的缎带“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Lee Smith says it has always been hard for Americans to understand exactly why peace in the Middle East is so elusive, and why violence and terrorism are so pervasive and persistent in the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.

这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's the finding in a new study that analyzed over 750 published studies on children's health the findings were base on data from 50 years studies from children health, and health care disparities "Racial and ethnic disparities in children's health care are quite extensive, pervasive and persistent."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"Turkey's persistent denial and inability to face, or unwillingness to face up to its history is very disruptive in all kinds of ways - in terms of international relations, in terms of its own internal politics - and it also prevents it from really recognizing how do you deal with minorities."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19