The main character in "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman is a failing English language newspaper published in Rome,Italy.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

trying to get bought by major studios , so they can then hit the main theaters.

尝试着被主要的工作室收买，那样它们就可以在各大影院上映了。

三角地电影节 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So you have three main trade routes that cross the country, and they were used by trading caravans that would carry gold and grain and spices and textiles and other goods between Egypt and the rest of the Fertile Crescent and up into Asia Minor.

你有三条主要道路穿过这个国家，他们被通商的车队所使用,驮着金子，谷物，香料，纺织品和其他货物,在埃及与其他肥沃的伊斯兰教国家间,向上到达小亚细亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The main agreement of the system, the Antarctic Treaty, was signed by twelve countries in nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Of course, other stocks are held by institutions on their behalf, but in terms of direct ownership, homes are the main thing that people own.

当然,他们还通过金融机构,间接持有股票,但从直接持有的角度来看,人们拥有的主要财产就是住宅

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Rod puppets are controlled by a stick or wire attached to the puppet's main body parts.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Now it's by no means my main aim in this class to teach you jargon.

这节课的目的不是为了教大家术语

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

By the middle of the nineteen-twenties, there were two main radio networks in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

And it speaks to what I said is my concern that Child Main Nutrition decrease by only 1 percentage point while economy cotinues to...grow -I see.

这也是我提过的我所关心的问题,经济还在高速增长的同时,儿童营养满足率,却掉了1个百分点，-我知道。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

By eighteen-sixty-two, the trail was the main supply line for Union forces in the Southwest.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

South of the Aeolian section of that was the region of Asia Minor inhabited chiefly by Ionians, the people on the mainland who are the main Ionians are the Athenians.

位于小亚细亚地区的伊奥利亚南部,主要居住爱奥尼亚人,而在内陆居住的爱奥尼亚人,主要都是雅典人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And yet we're getting less for our money." The main way that the federal government pays for health care is by insuring older people through the Medicare program.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

So Levenson, who draws actually on long-standing work by other scholars, and earlier in the twentieth century even , Levenson finds several of the main elements of the Hittite suzerainty treaties in this speech.

所以Levenson凭借其他学者，甚至是二十世纪初的学者的作品，发现了在这段演说中,有几个存在在Hittite领主条约的主要元素。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Analyst Marquand says Macedonia has further angered Greece by naming a main roadway and,earlier, the national airport after the ancient conqueror Alexander the Great.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

And, again, the rectangle represents your computer's RAM, the bottom represents the part of RAM that we generally call the stack, main conceptually ends up on the bottom of the stack followed foo by its local variables then the function say foo that it calls and on and on and on and up, but there is, in fact, something above all of this and we've seen this picture briefly and that's this thing called the heap.

再次，矩形表示的是计算机内存，底端表示内存的一部分,通常我们把它叫做堆栈，main函数在,堆栈的底端，之后是,它的局部变量，然后是它调用的函数,等等等等，但是那里有，实际上，在这个上面，我们粗略看看这个图画,这个东西叫做堆。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The report calls for stronger steps to be taken by advanced economies to reduce carbon emissions, seen as the main cause of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The seaport is one of three main sites in Mogadishu protected by the AMISOM forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Soldiers from Uganda and Burundi are currently playing a vital security role by defending the presidential palace, the main seaport and airport from al-Shabab attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The so-called Red Shirts, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship,or UDD, have the backing of the main parliamentary opposition group, the Puea Thai Party.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Mr.Karzai won the presidential election by default after his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff, saying it was impossible for the vote to be fair.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Each center is connected to the main hospital by video towers, designed with the help of students at the University of California Berkeley in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Arkhipov says honest bureaucrats are outcasts who are surrounded by an atmosphere of intolerance, because they are not convenient to bureaucrats or embezzlers, whose main goal is to cast the minority aside.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

He told the NBC television program Meet the Press that both the Senate and House versions of the bill achieve the main goal set by the president: making health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Earlier this week, Kasab took lawyers by surprise when he changed his plea to guilty and admitted that he sprayed gunfire at Mumbai's main train station after arriving in the city from Pakistan with other nine other gunmen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The winner of the presidential election will replace President Valdas Adamkus who is stepping down in July after completing a second and final five-year term Analysts say Lithuania's main political parties and politicians are widely disliked because of the current economic downturn, and their reputations have been overshadowed by corruption allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17