The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

It gradually expanded in size, reaching to the Southern Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, and emerging as a dynastic state.

其领土逐渐扩大,延伸至乌拉尔山脉南端和里海,并发展成为王朝国家

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A lot of mountains, a lot of cactuses, and a lot, it's like all,

很多山，很多仙人掌，很多，它就好像

沙漠之城-菲尼克斯 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Many people love Los Angeles for its warm sunny weather, beautiful mountains and beaches, and movie stars.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

So just to give an example, if he goes through the hard pass and you defend the hard pass, he loses one of those battalions going over the mountains and the other one because he meets you.

举个例子吧,如果入侵者与你在崎岖之途上狭路相逢,他在翻越山岭时损失一营,与你交战再损失一营

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

You put a child on one side of the mountains and you ask him to draw it, and a four- or five-year-old can do it easily, but then you ask him to draw it as it would appear from the other side and children find this extraordinarily difficult.

你让孩子在模型的一边,要求他把自己看到的三山模型画出来,四五岁的儿童便能够轻易做到,但是,如果你要求儿童画出,从模型另一边看过去的样子,儿童就会觉得非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Our idea was to explore the Rocky Mountains and west coast, perhaps go north into Canada and end up at North Western University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Suddenly, looking through the optic glass, one could see valleys, it seemed to have rivers, and there were mountains.

突然，通过厚厚的玻璃，我们可以看见，月亮上似乎有河流，高山。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Native Americans were experts at surviving in the mountains and deserts of the Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.

我走出去推了一辆推车到我的公寓,卡洛马克思的纸型山随着,东边太阳升起变成了红色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the winter, heavy snow falls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

And,so,that centralization is--also there are mountains there, it's easier to build in Brive.

所以说中央集权是…当然,图勒有山,在布瑞福修铁路会更加容易

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They could see the snow-covered mountains and huge amounts of blue ice.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Then there are the people in the mountains of Arcadia who also don't speak the Doric language, and maybe they were driven up there to escape.

还有阿卡狄亚山中的人,他们也不说多里安语,也许他们也是从那里逃出的一支

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers the Gila River, the Green River, the Little Colorado, the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison rivers.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

but there's beaches and mountains, and that's what's very different from New York.

但是那里有沙滩和山，这和纽约非常不同。

洛杉矶和纽约不一样 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

All around is mountains and desert.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Also there's mountains to go snowboarding and skiing and that sort of thing.

而且还有山，可以做滑雪板滑雪或者滑雪这样的活动。

喜欢加州 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River,the Green River, the Little Colorado,the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

and then after the cafe we went on a hike in the mountains."

喝完咖啡我们就会去爬山。”

That's all课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He wrote this about his experience: I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four,not three. The American poet T.S.Eliot was influenced by Shackletons description.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

But if you were to defend the hard pass, if you were to defend the mountains, then if he chooses the easy pass, he gets both battalions in and if he chooses the hard pass, he gets no battalions in. So in this case, easy is better.

但是如果你选择防守崎岖之途,即你要低于高山巨岭,而他却选择的是平坦之途,他将兵力全存,而要是选崎岖之途,他将全军覆没,这样来看,选择平坦之途要好些

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Waziristan is full of narrow valleys and barren mountains and it's a God-given country for any guerilla to fight in,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

And there's a real spatial sense here, that it's being generated at the base of the world, and it goes up and it transforms these mountains into papier-mache.

这里有一种真实的空间感，是从世界的基本中产生的，这种空间感上升并转化成这些纸型的山。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Extremist elements that were in Afghanistan have now been pushed into the mountains and into Pakistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

and just as before, there are those who live in the mountains and cities who continue to launch attacks on federal forces and those of Ramzan Kadyrov.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

He says its unique flavor is due to the combination of Kampot's rich soil, the climate in this area which is between the mountains and the sea, as well as the experience of several generations of pepper farmers.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

"If you happened to be a Taino who lived up in the mountains and you weren't in the sun a lot and maybe your skin was a little lighter, then they threw you in the 'white' bucket."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Lake Champlain lies in a valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05