Over the last five years, the city has reduced its public workforce and taken other steps like closing fire stations and swimming pools.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Now we recognize the song. This is the song from Revelation of the virgins who could learn and sing the new song before the throne of the Lord, but Milton has obviously taken John's image here and exploded the implications of its erotic potential.

我们知道这首歌是指哪首了，是《启示录》中,处子们能在上帝宝座跟前学习演唱的那首歌，但很明显，弥尔顿将圣约翰描绘的这景象,所包含的的感性含义都大大扩大化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If a company--if its stock sells for less than its assets are worth then the company maybe should be broken up and the assets taken and given somewhere else because the low stock price indicates a problem.

如果一家公司---如果它的股票卖的,比它的资产价值低,那么这家公司也许就应该破产，并且,它的资产就应该被占用或分配到其他地方,因为低的股票价格预示着一个危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The first image taken by Hubble hardly showed its extraordinary power.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

So It's on television all the time, but television used to be almost 100% of the marketing and its share of the overall marketing burden if you call it that has--is going down, but other things have taken its place.

它不停地在电视上播放,营销中,电视过去占有份额是100%,如今它占整体营销开支的份额在下降,还会发生其它事情

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Fifth Fleet would not comment on what additional security measures are being taken to protect its ships and personnel.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Pakistan's military has achieved a measure of success against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and taken control of its main town,Mingora.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

But progress has been slow, and Gud-Chantier has taken matters into its own hands.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

But he added that careful analysis is required, and that actions taken by Iran's government do not lend credence to its claims of a free and fair vote.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

"So that the perpetrators of this act will be taken to court and that the process of the law must take its place and those who have committed this terrible act must face the law and face the punishment that they deserve."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The popular,Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV broke into its regular news programming to make the announcement that President Obama had won the prize,noting that the President had taken "many extraordinary steps in trying to achieve a rapprochement with the Arab and Islamic world."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09