Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.

他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水，然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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The Soo Locks linked iron mines near Lake Superior with the cities of Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

What psychologists don't really know is why the Lake Wobegon effect exists, and there are a couple of proposals.

但心理学家还不知道,为什么乌比冈效应会存在，目前有几个假设。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Lake Champlain lies in a valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

And later still, during the War of 1812, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

As part of the supply effort, the British Royal Air Force even landed Sunderland Flying Boats on a Berlin lake.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

And later still, during the War of Eighteen Twelve, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

The Obamas also ate at Spiaggia, an Italian restaurant famous for its food and its view of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Lake Champlain also has the same kinds of environmental problems, including pollution and nonnative sea life, as the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Naples,Maine has a Fourth of July parade like no other and a fantastic fireworks display over the lake."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

I do remember walking on the college grounds and watching sail boats in the distance on the blue waters of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

The state wants to remove millions of carp to protect an endangered species native only to Utah Lake, the June sucker fish.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

It is The Windy City. Chicago sits next to Lake Michigan, one of North America's Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He says Lake Superior may be one of the most interesting places for this kind of exploration.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

But in March of 1998, it joined the list - Congress declared Champlain the sixth Great Lake.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

He later asked her to study a group of chimpanzees living by a lake in Tanzania.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The lake,near the city of Provo, is the largest natural body of freshwater in the state.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

I've traveled the Great Lakes. And Lake Champlain is not one of the Great Lakes."

VOA: special.2009.01.05

But the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake,says: "Unless we all work harder, there may still be fifty-six million children out of school in two thousand fifteen."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Language expert Barry Popick says on his web site that Chicago was called a "windy city" because of the wind that blows off of Lake Michigan.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Officials in Utah want to remove around three-fourths of the carp from Utah Lake.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City,Utah, has thousands of visitors each day.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

All this water poured into Lake Pontchartrain on the north side of New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Lake Champlain and the fertile Champlain Valley are in the northwestern part of Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Cornell honors Cayuga Lake in its school song, which begins: "Far above Cayuga's waters With its waves of blue Stands our noble alma mater Glorious to view."

VOA: special.2009.01.05