Unlike kilims, these "pile" carpets are not flat, they are deep and soft because their surfaces are covered with the ends of thousands of pieces of yarn.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

So according to John, the presumed author of Revelation, it's not poets who get to wed their songs to the soft voice streams.

据约翰所说，《启示录》的作者，估计不是那些致力于细声软语音乐的诗人。

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Yet Nicholas Szechenyi of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says Washington's softer approach is not all soft.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

PepsiCo will not be advertising its flagship soft drink in the game for the first time in 23 years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

He says the campaign aims to change consumer behavior through the use of soft power, not hard power.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30