Arthritis can be caused by injury,infection, an autoimmune disease or just long-term use.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.

如果某一个和弦持续的时间是其他和弦的两倍或者只有一半，这就是不规则的和声改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The take-aways are that an equity bias is an absolutely sensible underpinning for investors with long time horizons but that diversification is important.

对于长期投资者来说,股权偏好的存在,是长期投资获利的重要基础,但是分散投资也很重要

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Long,who set an Olympic long jump record during qualifying, gave Owens advice on how to improve his take-off.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

- And then I divide by an int -- that's okay because so long as you have a float involved at some point early on, you're okay.

然后我除以一个整型数-,那是可以的因为现在为止，我们在之前已经,引入了一个浮点数，你是对的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan in 1998 in an action that generated broad international protests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And dreams had--and this is an idea that long predated Freud.

在弗洛伊德之前就有观点指出。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

President Obama, who had set an early August deadline, now predicts necessary action in September when Congress returns from a month-long recess.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

After an hour-long service of words both sacred and nostalgic and of course,music, the world finally said goodbye to the legendary Lena Horne.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Anyway, that shows that I think probability theory does have a long history, but-- it not being an intellectual discipline-- it didn't really inform a generation of finance theory.

不管怎样,这个故事表明概率论,确实有很悠久的历史,但,那时它并非以学科形式存在,也没有对金融理论的产生有过指导意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the president reminded an enthusiastic crowd of Democrats that solving long-entrenched problems is a difficult process.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

Well, there's a story-- there's a long story in the Mahabarahta about an emperor called Nala and he had a wife named Damayanti and he was a very pure and very good person.

有那么一个故事,在摩诃婆罗多一书中有篇长故事,有关一个名叫那勒的国王,他有个妻子叫妲玛言狄,他是个非常纯洁善良的人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Sudan's elections were agreed to as part of a 2005 peace deal ending a two-decade-long civil war, during which an estimated two million people died.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Venezuelan President Chavez said in Moscow Sunday he had obtained a $2.2-billion line of credit from Russia for 90 T-72 tanks and an advanced long-range air defense system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

For many in Asia gold has long held not something like gambling - a special place as an investment, often as jewelry - glittering gold chains, bangles,and bracelets.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

For his first trip abroad with an international arrest warrant on his head, President Omar al-Bashir chose another country that has long maintained a defiant posture towards western countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The exchange of prisoners between the United States and Russia is expected to bring an end to a weeks-long espionage scandal that fascinated the media, but was downplayed by both governments.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

That has led to charges by Republicans the economic recovery is an illusion, funded by inefficient government spending that has weakened America's long-term economic position by vastly expanding the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

It prompted urgent consultations between Clinton's traveling party and officials in Washington and was an issue in the Secretary's day-long set of meetings at the APEC forum, including a bilateral meeting late Wednesday with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

But she said it is time to go beyond disaster relief to long-term development to counter a so-called "youth tsunami" of an estimated one million Haitian young people who will enter the job market during the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

But in an economy that has lost jobs for 23 consecutive months, Hall noted that long-term unemployed continued to grow, rising by 293,000 to 5.9 million, with little change in the number of Americans employed part-time but seeking full-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"It's really more like a soccer crowd" The month-long Bali Arts Festival is an enormous affair, with multiple stages of music and dance,plus fashion shows, food stalls,and events for children, in addition to the traditional music and dance performances and competitions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"I think this will reverberate very loudly in the region, and you will see it perceived especially by our enemies, by the Taliban and al-Qaida, as an admission that America is losing its will and is not committed over the long term, and they will be able to convince their recruits to wait the U.S.out,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06