It is almost as big as the king's country and it is made of asbestos.
VOA: special.2009.03.28
The return on an investment is how much you made from the investment as a percent of the money invested.
投资的收益是指,你在整个投资中赚的钱占本金的百分比
The nymphs, of course, are powerless, and worse than that, the nymphs, as we know and of course as John Milton knew, are merely fictions. This is all made up.
海洋女神当然无能为力,更糟糕的是,海洋女神,我们都知道,弥尔顿也知道,只是虚构的,这都是虚构的。
The challenge is to pick out oil from other dark spots, such as shadows made by clouds or patches of seaweed.
VOA: standard.2010.07.05
The best example is when Julius Caesar has made himself master of Rome, but he's still behaving as though the republic exists.
于此最好的例子是,当尤利乌斯·恺撒成为罗马的统治者时,他仍然表现得仿佛共和体制仍存在似的
But he has new respect for the singer as news is coming out of Jackson's many charitable contributions, usually made without fanfare.
VOA: standard.2009.06.28
Well, that's what happens but most of them made it all right So, that's the way it is in finance as well.
是这样的,但是大部分的飞行都是完美的,所以经济也是这样的。
While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa's first World Cup, the nation also made history International AIDS Conference.
VOA: standard.2010.05.17
A sign, in other words, is made up of two sides in, as it were, a thought moment: a relationship between that which is signified and that which signifiesit.
所以,一个符号是由两面组成的,想一想,能指和所指,的关系。
Forward Alex Shinsky says the image the players will take home with them is that of the jubilant fans waving at them as they made their way in and out of stadiums in Kano,Ijebu-Ode,and Kaduna.
VOA: standard.2009.11.05
If the very idea of soul that we're working with here under the dualist picture is the soul as an immaterial substance, it's not made of ordinary atomic matter.
如果关于我们正在讨论的,观点是建立在二元论的基础上,即灵魂是非物质实体,它并非由一般的原子物质组成
And,so I don't see the refueling as being a favor to the United States but rather a contribution that the Japanese have made that is commensurate with its standing as in the world as the second wealthiest country and one of the great powers,".
VOA: standard.2009.10.20
And also, discuss the debate over whether such cases are true or not; whether they could be taken as a real phenomena or a made-up phenomena, which is--there is a matter of a lot of controversy.
同时也讨论一下,这种现象是否真实存在,我们应该将它看作是真实的心理现象,还是人们主观想象出来的,这个问题存在着许多的争论
Here it is; it's in your anthology as well: I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.
你们选集里有这首:,我为我的歌儿缝就,一件长长的外套,上面缀满剪自古老,神话的花边刺绣;,但蠢人们把它抢去,穿上在人前炫示,俨然出自他们之手。
But one thing we should not do right one thing we should not do is to approach these works as if they provide somehow answers ready-made answers to the problems of today.
但有一件事我们不能做,就是我们不能在阅读这些著作时,认定它们好像能提供解答,制定好用来回答,现今问题的解答。
The uncertain status of divine providence here, I think, is made clear by its figuration as a moon.
这里神圣的天意的不确定的地位,被月亮这个比喻表现的更为清晰。
The shield itself, as I've told you is made of a heavy wood, covered by a leather or bronze sheet about three feet across, something in the neighborhood of 16 to 20 pounds worth of shield and gripped as I told you before.
而盾牌,就像我说过的,是由沉重的木材制成,上面包裹有皮革或铜皮,约三英尺宽,大概是十六到二十磅重,就像我刚才所说的,拿起来很费劲
I put in .9958 for every dollar I got out, so my appreciation of my money is 1/.9958. Subtract that by $1, which is what I put in, and that's how much money I made as a fraction of a dollar.
我投入0.9958美元,得到1美元,我的资产增值为1/0.9958,减去1美元,那是我的投入,这就是每1美元,赚了多少钱
You need to do that to be able to control the shield that's as big as that and as heavy as that, because it is made fundamentally of a heavy wood, typically covered by leather, sometimes with some bronze, a bronze sheet across the front of it as well.
如果你想自如操控这块盾牌就必须得这样,这种盾牌很大并且很笨重,因为它主要是由沉重的木材制成,表面一般覆有皮革,或包上铜皮,就是表面上有一层铜皮
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