He thought of his room with its horrible yellow wallpaper, the old bed with its ugly red cover.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

But,he'd helped modernize the economy, and he did not restore the church to its old power.

但他推动了经济现代化,他并未让教会重新得势

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He said, "If you want to understand the South," he said, "Its taproot is back there in the Old South."

如果你想读懂南方",他说,"那你必须追溯到内战前的南方"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

NASA said its astronaut candidates had to be between twenty-five and forty years old and in excellent health.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It had lost its radar and the old lighthouse at Whitefish Point, Michigan was not operating.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Composed 1629" -- whether or not that's actually true, and there's some controversy about that -- but nonetheless, the subtitle announces to all who know John Milton that the poet was twenty-one years old at the moment of its composition and that he had therefore just reached his majority.

作于1629“-不管它是否属实，尽管对此也有一些争议，但它向所有知道他的人宣告,诗人创作这首诗时只有21岁,因此他已经超过了多数同龄人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

On September 15th, Lehman Brothers, a 158 year-old investment bank, sought legal protection from its creditors.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now,an old woman, Signora Lisabetta, rented its rooms to students at the University of Padua.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

They looked at the old blue uniform with its gold colored buttons.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

after its defeat. Yukio Hatoyama is sixty-two years old.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The magical world of Disney animation lost its cornerstone in 1966 when the 65-year-old Disney died of lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

BP oil company is preparing its latest effort to cap the six-week-old oil leak.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Its medieval Old Town has been recognized by UNESCO as unique in East Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

But he added that, just as the United States must change the way it conducts itself in the world, so too must its neighbors abandon old attitudes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The Old City with its Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy places is part of the eastern half of Jerusalem that Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Talking about the U.S.role in Asia, Gates told the conference Washington's commitment to its allies was as strong as ever, but that greater multilateral cooperation was needed to deal with both old and new challenges to security.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

After seeing the general's grim assessment, President Obama told American television networks over the weekend he is in the process of reviewing his own six-month-old strategy, and he questioned whether supporting the Afghan government, building its security forces and securing key provinces, is the right approach.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22