World War Two was nearing its end.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

I'm going to talk a little bit about its publishing history, its compositional history, actually, at the end of my two lectures on the novel.

我打算在讲这部小说的最后两次课上，略微谈一点关于这部小说的出版历史，实际上也是创作历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It wants to live a life of a certain magnitude, but with a view to achieving the ultimate desired end, which is to return to an inorganic state on its own terms.

它们希望生命有意义，但是还是带这完成最终愿望的心态，那就是回到最初的无生命状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

When Alexander's year long bread making adventure came to its end, he realized that the perfect loaf of bread he was after was whatever loaf he was baking at the time.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The animal that eats its offspring, those genes are a biological dead end.

吃掉自己后代的动物，他们的基因走进了生物学的死胡同。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ten years ago at this time, NATO was bombing Serbia to end its violent campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

This process, which is shown schematically here, as a vesicle fusing with the cell membrane and then dropping its neurotransmitter only happens when an action potential reaches the end of the axon.

这一过程 扼要地展示在这里,小泡同细胞膜融合,释放其神经递质,这只发生在动作电位抵达轴突末梢时

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Its long history almost came to an end two years ago when a major fire burned its South Hall building.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Those who profess to love the Union are not so anxious to preserve slavery, while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge in all their actions that its continuance will put an end to this accursed system.

那些宣称热爱联邦的人,并不急着想保存奴隶制,同时那些反战的人,他们以行动昭告天下,战争会持续到这种被人唾骂的制度结束

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But in the end there is hope for this singer, who exists only in a movie and its soundtrack.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

We could do a more general job if we wanted to, but for now, let's assume that one of these firms has its shop at one end of the town, and the other one has its shop at the other end of the town.

如果有需要,我们可以做更全面的分析,但现在,先假设其中一家公司的商店,在城市的一边,另一家公司的商店在城市的另外一边

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

At the end of March, President Obama called for the United States to expand its offshore oil and gas exploration.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

When it cuts it leaves sticky ends or un-base paired single stranded regions on each end of the part its cut and that's just a property of many restriction enzymes; not all, some cut blunt,just right down the middle.

它切割后会留下两个粘性末端,或者未配对的单链部分,这是许多限制性内切酶的特性,但不是全部,有些限制性内切酶是从中间钝切的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But,in the end, she found that she liked the ideas of Socialism more than the party and its supporters.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Behind her,in the little room over the porch, a tiny clock ticked loudly on its shelf near the end of the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Toyota says it expects costs and lost sales from its recent safety recalls to total two billion dollars by the end of March.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

By the end of its first week on the market it had sold two million copies.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

This would split the states of the Confederacy and might end its very existence.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

She warned Eritrea to end its support for groups fighting to control Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

The government promised last month to end its use of heavy weapons.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Soon after,at the end of August, Congress ended its session.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Among the festival's most popular attractions are its local acts, arriving from one end of Louisiana to the other.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday at the United Nations that Washington would end its policy of limited engagement with Burma.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Mr.Lee has pushed North Korea to fulfill its pledges to end its nuclear program and had scaled back aid to the impoverished country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Nuru Design plans to increase its customer base tenfold by the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Its main goal is to use agriculture-based development to end hunger,reduce poverty and food insecurity,as well as increase opportunities for Africa to become a food exporter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The United States will end its combat mission in Iraq on August 31.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Standing alongside Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated a call for Russia to end its military presence in two breakaway Georgian regions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Iran is played host to a high-profile summit of two key war-torn neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a bid to put an end to conflicts that rage along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03