The city is more than two thousand meters above sea level, near the southern Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

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The city near Stanford is kind of small,

和斯坦福大学相邻的城市很小，

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This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city of Carlsbad,New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The lake,near the city of Provo, is the largest natural body of freshwater in the state.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

South Africa has updated its stadium at Soccer City near the Soweto area of Johannesburg.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

As the Americans landed near Santiago, Spanish forces withdrew to positions outside the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

He lives near New York City in a small apartment with few possessions.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

She photographed many of these people in or near New York City.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

An enemy is coming near this city.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Torrential rains October 1 caused the mudslides in the northeast of Sicily, near the coastal city of Messina.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

One community group working near to where Mr.Obama used to help is the Inner City Muslim Action Network.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Officials say the 7.6 underwater earthquake that occurred near the Indonesian island of Sumatra collapsed at least 500 buildings in the city of Padang.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Chanie Luz lives in the West Bank settlement of Bethel near the Palestinian-ruled city of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Last month Mercedes Benz opened an assembly plant near the Western city of Pune.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Maradona,who is considered one of the best football players in recent times, also dismissed security fears as he toured the Soccer City stadium near Soweto,outside Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

and asked "What did they do?" In the northern city Mosul, a suicide bomber exploded a car near a checkpoint guarded by national and Kurdish forces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

The plan follows months of deadlock over Iran's nuclear program and the recent discovery of a previously unknown nuclear-enrichment plant near the Iranian city of Qom.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

There are three around the city. This one,in Newtown,near downtown, is the largest.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Iran says its uranium-enrichment program is designed only for electricity generating purposes, and has allowed U.N.inspectors to visit a previously secret processing facility near the city of Qom.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The worst explosion occurred near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where eyewitnesses say a car-bomb packed with explosives killed more than two dozen worshippers at a mosque.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

In-between the meetings in Baghdad and Irbil, Secretary Gates stopped at a U.S.airbase near the disputed city of Kirkuk, where he told several hundred American troops he sees signs of progress toward resolving Iraq's Arab-Kurd dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

But we're not going to wait forever,". Kelly said preparations have been made for a visit Sunday by IAEA inspectors to the partially-underground enrichment facility near the city of Qom that Iran recently acknowledged it has been secretly building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Violence between the ethnic Goula and Kara communities in the north earlier this year subsided when rebels from the largely Goula Union of Democratic Forces for Unity began fighting alongside government troops to regain control of the city of Birao, near the borders of Chad and Sudan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Investigators in Mexico say the detained suspect claims the ambush of a US couple near the Juarez city hall on Saturday,March 13, was carried out as an act of retribution against Arthur Redelfs, who worked as an El Paso County Sheriff's detention officer and was accused by gang members of mistreating their compatriots there.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01