He says,for children in that era, Pewex stores were like unattainable dreams and it was fun to collect Western things like empty beer cans and matchboxes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The Noah story, the flood story, ends with the ushering in of a new era, and it is in many ways a second creation that mirrors the first creation in some important ways.

诺亚方舟，洪水的故事，都预示着一个新纪元的到来，在很多方面，都像是第二次创世纪,同时，又有许多第一次创世纪的影子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There are things that we can all relate to, so just because it is set in that era or in this mythological world or even a million years into the future, any movie that is worth its salt in this kind of genre should reflect issues that we deal with today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Mr.Obama's announcement last month that he was canceling the planned Bush-era missile shield ruffled a lot of feathers in Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

In my view, we need especially to examine the older traditions of the West that came before the modern era, and to take seriously the possibility that useful wisdom can be found there, especially among the Greeks who began it all.

所以我认为,我们得研究学习古时的,西方文明体系,认真的对待其中,实用智慧的潜在价值,特别是古希腊人的经验

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the kind of letter people use to write when they went off to Vietnam in my era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

It's like you're reading a manual that would have been more appropriate during the Nazi era than in the United States of America,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

But in an era of plastic explosives and advanced chemical compounds, that system has proved lacking.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"Being able to deliver that message personally to one of the people who ushered in this new era is really one of the most completely, artistically satisfying moments I've ever had,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

But here in Warsaw, people were waiting for only one thing -an assurance that despite scrapping Bush-era plans for an antiballistic missile shield, the U.S.had not turned its back on Central Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

United States President Barack Obama, who was not at Tuesday's ceremonies, sent a message saying that today there is "a different era in which the United States and Poland are close allies."

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The CBO projection is $7 trillion. The difference between the two estimates lies primarily in the fact that the CBO assumes the expiration of Bush administration-era tax cuts, while the White House is assuming that President Barack Obama will honor his pledge against allowing taxes to rise on families earning less than $250,000 a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25