It was a two-meter tall flower arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Yeah,it's regular, and with-- each chord was holding for two beats there in duple meter.

对，这是规则变化，每个和弦都维持两拍，这里一小节两拍。

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Occasionally, you get things written in triple meter and in a minor key--minor key.

偶尔,有一些是由三拍子,和小调组成

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Owens dispelled Hitler's theories on the track, winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters, 4x100-meter relay and long jump.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

So we're going to listen to a track out of John Kander's Chicago here, and the question that's at- in play at the moment is what's the meter of this cut from chicago?

我们先听一下约翰·肯德尔的作品芝加哥,中的一小段,边听边想一个问题,这个片段的节拍是怎样的,这个摘自芝加哥的片段

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The women go for the gold in three other events, including the long jump, and four-by-400 meter relay and 1,500 meters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

This would be? Well let's think through this in one additional way and that is--notice that in duple meter we have a strong beat, right "Strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong weak" in that sense or if we have triple it would be "Strong, weak, weak, strong, weak, weak."

是什么呢,我们用另一种方式来想,这个,你们知道二拍子,有很强的鼓点,对吧,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,那在这种情况下如果我们拿一段三拍子,那就会是,强,弱,弱,强,弱,弱

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That cabin is a 14-ton spherical steel capsule only two meters in diameter, with a single,half-meter-wide circular plastic window for viewing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

He recounts a phone call with his mother before taking the 200-meter gold in record time Thursday night.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Parkin took home a silver medal in the 200-meter breast stroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Surrounded by 30-meter tall pines, she said she was praying for rain - and keeping her documents in her car for a quick escape.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Four years later at the Turin Olympics, Ohno won three short track speed skating medals, a gold in the 500 meters, and bronze in the 1,000 meters and 5,000-meter relay.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Zhou Yang broke the women's beating the previous mark held by compatriot Wang Meng.Zhou, Wang and their two teammates bettered the mark in the 3000-meter relay that China had set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

In the men's 100-meter hurdles, Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados nosed out Terrence Trammell of the United States by one-100th of a second to win his nation's first-ever World Championship gold medal in a national record time of 13.14 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21