On the ground, it meant that the company laid off forest wardens to cut costs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

A to B is one distance, which is a large one, and B to C is only half that distance, and that's because of the way the Greeks laid this thing out with their two to one ratios, three to two ratios and so on.

到B是一个距离,比较大,而B到C只有半个距离,因为希腊人,用诸如二比一,三比二,之类的频率比来安排音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And if you've ever heard the word driver software that you install in your computer so that your computer, your operating system, Windows or Mac OS, knows how to talk to that piece of hardware, it's that driver software that then empowers the operating systems to send those commands as well, up, the data is laid out on the disk.

并且如果你听说过安装到,电脑中的驱动软件这个词的话，你的操作系统，比如Windows或者是苹果操作系统，通过这个驱动软件我们的电脑，才能知道如何与这个硬件进行通信,正是因为这个驱动软件，操作系统才能根据数据，左右移动的指令来读取磁盘里的数据。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Before leaving the Pentagon, General Xu laid a wreath at the memorial to the 184 people killed in the attack on the building on September 11,2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27