Until 7 years ago, Mr. Badt worked as a chef in fine restaurants in Washington and New York City.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

There's a very interesting New Yorker profile on him by Malcolm Gladwell a few years ago, something you might be interested in.

这有非常有趣的纽约客形象素描,几年前马尔科姆·格拉德威尔创作，也许你们会感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

OCW Self learners are coming to OCW to explore whole new areas of study as well as to brush up on subjects that they took a while ago and perhaps got the rest in the end.

自学者浏览,搜索全新领域的研究,补充学过的科目的知识,使之完整。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Two of his names -- Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas -- both come from the Dutch who settled in New York long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

We set up--this is not a new idea, this goes back to China thousands of years ago, but it started to be widely done-- So you had a Civil Service exam that established your competence.

我们建立了，这不是什么新主意，可以追溯到几千年前的中国，但这次开始广泛地实施开来-,你得参加公务员考试来考核你的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What happened in New York a week ago has added to calls for new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Five years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published two government-financed studies of serious mistakes.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York state, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Its use started almost two-hundred years ago in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Years ago,a young forester took an unusual new job.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

One recent visitor said the Ellis Island immigration hall feels alive with the stories of people who left their native lands long ago to start a new life in a new country.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

The new loans are double what China pledged at the first Forum on China Africa Cooperation three years ago in Beijing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

President Obama says the big banks that were in critical condition a year ago do not need any new government help.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand had its warmest August since temperatures were first recorded 155 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

A big change came four years ago, when Russia's new forestry law essentially privatized management of state forests.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Four and a half years ago, the National Zoo unveiled its new addition to great fanfare.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But six months ago, NATO set up a new command for training the police, and its officials say they are working to eradicate the culture of corruption and ill-discipline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Members of this community say they're determined to show the same resolve over the coming months as they did 20 years ago when they moved here to start a new life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Last week,Israel won praise from U.S.President Barack Obama when it said it has not approved any new housing projects in the West Bank since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office five months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Secretary Clinton says many people who heard President Obama's Cairo speech five months ago asked how his vision for a new understanding between the United States and the Muslim world would translate into meaningful changes in people's everyday lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03