The next day, Joe Rosenthal's film went by airplane to the island of Guam where it was developed and printed.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's like a little island in London that feels very different from everything else,

它像是伦敦的一个小岛，感觉和其它地方不一样，

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It allowed me to leave the island and build myself separate from the long-long shadow of my twin.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

In the Odyssey,you remember Odysseus finds himself on the island of the Cyclops, those one-eyed monsters, and what is it about them that make them so monstrous, so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?

还记得《奥德赛》中的奥德修斯,在独眼怪居住的岛上遇到的那些怪物,为什么这些独眼怪在荷马式英雄的眼中,是那么丑陋,那么残忍

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Congress agreed. It also demanded that Spain withdraw from Cuba and give up all claims to the island.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The museum includes pictures,videos, interactive displays and recordings of immigrants who went through Ellis Island until it was closed in nineteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Puerto Rico's warm island climate made it easy for the young boy to play baseball all year.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

He suggested that one island was so rocky it seemed like stones had rained from the sky.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Joe Rosenthal took it on February twenty-third, nineteen forty-five, on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

It said the bridge should extend from the little island to San Francisco.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

It stretches about two thousand six hundred kilometers along the island of Sumatra.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

He said it should stand on an island in New York harbor.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

It is called Highway One. It starts into the Keys from the state of Florida at a bridge that crosses the water to the island of Key Largo.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

It was covered with writing. Many people thought it was a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, telling him the colonists fled the island after an Indian attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

People usually just call it the Big Island.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The very top of the wire drawing represents the only part of the ocean landscape that can be seen on the surface of the water: It is Bouvet Island, one of the most isolated islands in the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

On Tuesday it was scheduled to dock at the Riau Island's port of Kijang.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

It also exists in Southeast Asian nations and on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Officials say it took staff on Christmas Island about half-an-hour to regain control.

VOA: standard.2009.11.24

It was the first of a series of three massive storms that devastated wide areas of the island of Luzon, where Manila is located, and claimed almost a thousand lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"We believe that South Africa has so much more economic potential and it cannot exist as an island of relative prosperity amid a sea of untapped opportunity elsewhere on the continent,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

It is the result of a bloody division of Cyprus in 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, in response to a military coup that was backed by the Greek government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

With "Shutter Island" Scorcese navigates the shadowy, occasionally invisible line between reality and imagination: "It was revealed to be many different realities and, without giving away too much, there are certainly different levels with the characters."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18