In nineteen thirty-four, Tennessee and North Carolina gave the federal government more than three hundred thousand hectares of land for the park.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

You move out to someplace that nobody bothered to farm before, because it wasn't profitable enough, because you need more land.

你搬到一块以前没人耕作过的土地上,因为它并不是那么有利可图,但是你需要更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What they have to do in order to feed the population, you have to have more land.

要怎么做才能养活这么多的人呢,你得有更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A more common way to deal with weeds is to control them enough so that the land can be used for planting.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

These men bought the land, held it for a while, then sold it for more than they paid.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

But now, when you need more, you can't just say I only want the best bottom land there is.

然而当你需要更多土地时,你不能张口就要这片地区最富饶的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was a lonely land. And the howling of wolves and winds at night made it more so.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

So if you are in exile, then perhaps a more satisfying ending is to have Israel not in fact entering the land.

如果你正在经历放逐，那么也许一个更令人满意的结尾,是以色列人实际上并未进入应许之地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The anger of the sea was no more to them than it was to a group of chickens a thousand miles away on land.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

How are you going to get more land?

怎么样才能得到更多的土地呢

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Texas has a land area of more than six hundred and seventy-eight thousand square kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

There are getting to be more and more people living on the land of Greece.

越来越多的人生存在希腊这片土地上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And,the ships cannot bring on land more than one hundred passengers at a time.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.

十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There will be no more peace in this land until slavery is done for.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

There are more people who can work to increase the production, but beyond that point there are more people to feed than the production can produce, and that leads to a desire for expansion of the land available for cultivation.

越来越多的人从事工作,生产力得以提高,但是一旦突破临界值,花费就要超过所得了,它导致了对土地扩张的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They've managed to procure no more than a burial plot in the Promised Land Even God has left his land, descending with the Israelites into Egypt, so the promises and their fulfillment seem quite remote.

他们只试图在应许之地获得一块葬身之地,甚至上帝也离开了他的土地，与以色列人一起下埃及去，因此许诺和它们的实现似乎相去甚远。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Thousands more are reported trapped in a no-man's land between the violence at their backs and a frontier ahead of them.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

It has often been pointed out that in the past 4000 years more wars have been fought for the possession of the tiny strip of land known as Canaan, or the land of Israel, or Palestine, than have been fought for almost any other area in the world.

很多人指出，在过去的4000多年中,为了占领这一小块土地，有过多次战争,这块叫迦南，或以色列或巴勒斯坦的土地，这些战争远多于世界其他地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The code's more than 1,100 new articles would have increased women's rights by reforming laws with regards to land ownership, inheritance,education, employment and marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But road travel from the sites remains difficult. The general says there are more than 1,400 flights on a waiting list to land in Port-au-Prince.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

A normal reason for fighting is a dispute about a piece of land that is more or less on the boundary between them, and so that's one aspect of their world.

战争的常见原因就是领土争端,争夺一片或多或少在他们边界之间的领土,这是他们生活的一个部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But heavy rains are complicating further efforts to reach these areas by land and the weather forecast for the region calls for more storms in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Now,what Mr.Netanyahu is doing is really eating up the land that is supposed to be the Palestinian state with more settlements, with more malls, with more confiscation of land."

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He is replacing it with a plan that would provide a combined land- and sea-based capability more quickly, focused on shorter range missiles Iran could use to threaten Europe, with the option of expanding later to cover longer range missiles if necessary.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"When you put that all together it suggest that we are going to need something like 50 percent more, perhaps 100 percent more, food from our existing land and that is a very significant challenge and we believe we need to be thinking seriously about that right away,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21