"And every senator who goes on record saying that we need to proceed to this monstrosity of a bill, will in effect be voting for higher taxes,higher premiums and cuts in medicare,".
VOA: standard.2009.11.23
If you go to Denmark and you break a $100 bill, you're going to be given one of these, undoubtedly, the 500 kroner note, which is worth about $75-80, and it has Niels Bohr on it.
如果你去了丹麦,换了100美元,毫无疑问,你会得到其中一个像这样的,500挪威币,约为75-80美元,上面有波尔的头像。
you do certain amount of years in the military, and then you get what's called a GI bill,
你先在军队服役几年,当你退役的时候,你就能获得美国军队的补贴,
To help create jobs, he urged the Senate to join the House of Representatives in passing a second economic stimulus bill.
VOA: special.2010.01.30
I went to see a rich girl I knew. In the morning she pulled a hundred-dollar bill out of her silk stocking and said, "You've been talking of a trip to Frisco. That being the case, take this and go have your fun." So all of my problems were solved.
我去看望我以前认识的一位有钱的姑娘,到了早上,她从丝绸钱袋里取出一张100元的支票说:,“既然你那么向往到圣弗兰西斯科的旅行,拿着这个去寻找你的快乐吧“,这下我的问题全部解决了。
The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.
VOA: special.2009.05.15
because you read the Bill of Rights, for example, The Declaration of Independence, citizens have a duty to put a new government if it is not serving well the people.
举个例子,如果你读《人权法案》,或者《独立宣言》,如果政府不够尽责,公民有权支持一个新的政府。
Also this week, the House of Representatives passed a major bill to rewrite financial rules and add consumer protections.
VOA: special.2010.07.02
In principle, you could bill your clients for fractions of a second or fractions of a minute.
原则上,你可以按分钟或者按秒钟,从你的客户那里收取费用
Members of Congress are also on the guest list, along with former president Bill Clinton, a favorite at Davos.
VOA: special.2009.01.23
Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.
是的,现在,就有这样一个法案,在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。
For about a month, the proposed bill seemed to have the support of the administration of President Zachary Taylor.
VOA: special.2009.04.02
he came into office, passed the stimulus bill, and a raft of other measures because the financial crisis demanded that he do so, and it seemed to have worked.
他上任后,通过了刺激法案,和其他一些列措施,因为金融危机要求,他这样做,似乎这样做也奏效了。
Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
This is a picture of Bill Kannell on the right and Bill Castelli on the left who were physicians who were very prominent in this Framingham Heart Study over the years.
右边是比尔·堪奈尔的照片,左边是比尔·凯斯特利,他们都是这么多年弗明汉心脏病研究中,表现杰出的医生
There was a huge battle, but Bill took control of the big cat and put his saddle on it.
VOA: special.2009.11.28
So, when you hear a sentence like, " "John thinks that Bill likes him," in a fraction of a second you realize that this means that John thinks that Bill likes John.
所以,当你听到下面这样的句子,“约翰认为比尔喜欢他“,你马上就能领会,这话的意思是,约翰认为比尔喜欢约翰。
The bill seemed to curl up as if it had been rolled and stuck into the end of a gun barrel.
VOA: special.2009.11.14
So, adding insult to injury, you lost 72% of the money and then you got a tax bill for 24% of the amount that had been put in; not a very happy experience.
那么,雪上加霜的是你损失了72%,还要拿张税单,告诉你剩下的24%还要缴税,不是什么让人高兴的经历
So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.
VOA: special.2010.06.03
And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."
顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"
The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.
VOA: special.2010.04.29
His popularity at the end of his term, despite what everyone would agree, whether you like Bill Clinton or not, was a big mistake with Monica Lewinsky his popularity didn't suffer very much.
任期结束时,人气很高,尽管大家都心知肚明,不管你喜不喜欢比尔·克林顿,和莱温斯基乱搞男女关系就是一个错误,但是他的人气并未因此受到很大影响。
The House of Representatives moved quickly to pass a moderate bill that would reduce many of the tariffs.
VOA: special.2010.05.20
Yes, but predicting what he does versus what Clinton will do or Bush is a bit too much noise Nobody would have predicted George Bush So Bill Clinton was right, voting for Barack Obama would be a roll of the dice?
我倒是想,但是要预测他的政策,比起预测克林顿,或者布什,太不靠谱了,当时谁又会想到乔治·布什是这样的总统呢,这么说,看来比尔·克林顿没说错,他说,给奥巴马投票等于在赌运气,是吗?
Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.
VOA: special.2011.06.11
Because of the way that we deal with taxes and mutual funds, you can get a tax bill for gains that were realized by the investment manager turning over the portfolio even though you might not have held the shares during the period when the gains were realized.
因为共同基金的收益还涉及到缴税的问题,所以你会有张税单,上面写着基金的收益部分该缴多少税,即使在实现收益的期间,你并不持有基金股份,但还是要缴税
And lawmakers in Rhode Island are considering a bill that would require state schools to offer the choice of a three-year degree.
VOA: special.2009.07.23
If you heard the sentence " "John thinks that Bill likes himself," in a fraction of a second you would think that it means " "John thinks that Bill likes Bill."
如果你听到下面这个句子,“约翰认为比尔很自恋“,你马上就能领会,这话的意思是,“约翰认为比尔喜欢比尔“
We have a habit in this society to think that individual rights, when they drafted the Bill of Rights, was just laid down for us and it's just traveled through time and here they are.
在这个社会中我们习惯于思考人权问题,创始人们起草了《权利法案》,这份草案被我们所珍藏的,历尽世事变迁仍在这里
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