She says Washington is delivering on President Obama's promises by helping local communities develop long-lasting solutions and not by focusing on one-time projects.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

He said:The good, lasting stuff comes out of one's individual imagination, and sensitivity to, and comprehension of, not out of the memory of one's own grief.

他说：，“美好的和长久的东西,来源于人们自己的想像，而不是来自个人记忆中的不幸。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One year after the war, a lasting solution remains only a wish.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02