Although Democrats are assured their 60 votes, through various compromises and support from two Independent senators, Republicans used the remaining hours of floor time Wednesday to re-state their objections.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

and she had gathered all the girls, kind of, on the floor in the dormitory into her room and...

她把大概所有的女孩都叫来了，大家坐在她宿舍房间的地板上，然后……

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She threw it on the floor. I forced her to get out of her chair to pick the spoon up.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

First, take the case in the elevator is on the ground floor of some building and completely addressed.

首先我们来看看电梯,在一楼时候的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They lift their eyes to the tall rock walls that rise hundreds of meters up from the floor of the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

If you think of these kind of like trays in a cafeteria, right, that are kind of upside down, and by default, they're stacked from the floor on up and up and up.

如果你想象这种自助餐厅的托盘，对的，那有点混乱的，默认的，它们从地板开始往上堆起来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

One of the voices utterly mops the floor with all of the others.

他的论点之一完全扫清了他人的前车之鉴。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The center of the museum is open, so people can look up toward the roof or down toward the ground floor.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

If you take enough alcohol, it then goes down to inhibit the excitatory parts of your brain and then you fall on the floor and pass out.

如果你摄入足够的酒精,就会抑制在你大脑中起兴奋作用的脑组织,之后你便醉倒了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Around 1901, Mrs. Gardner moved into the 4th floor of the museum, where she would live for the rest of her life.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

You can do that on email, you can do that in my office, which is downstairs on the first floor of this building, in LC-109.

发邮件，来办公室找我，我的办公室在这栋楼的1层，LC109室。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Then when he was not looking, I dropped one of my gloves on the floor under my chair.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.

即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They shook the table, the back of my chair, the floor under my feet and even the windows.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Now, let me just make the last point I want to make about this, and that's that because language is material, it has form, it has both closedness and possibility, it's susceptible to the workings of craft, it's also unpredictable. Tosses mobius strip on floor.

让我说关于此事的最后一个观点吧，正因为语言是物质的，它有固定模式，它没有尽头又充满可能，它易受,工艺品的影响，它同时也是不可预知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Wegener said the lighter continental rock floated up through the heavier basalt rock of the ocean floor.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The final section of that novel calls "The Threshing-Floor".

这本小说的最后一部分,叫“打谷场“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is hard to miss the crowds of people always gathering in one room on this floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.

我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A damaged table, 3 chairs and an old red sofa were in the center of the floor.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

But there's a lot of, like girls live right next to guys and it's on the same floor

但是有好多例子如，在同一楼层女生就住在男生隔壁，

住宿环境怎样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A damaged table, three chairs and an old red sofa were in the center of the floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

That is the gymnasium on the third floor of Walker.

这是在walker三楼的体育馆。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They are now discovering strange, new species of plants, animals and organisms surviving near hot currents that come out of the ocean floor.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

If you go there on the third floor of Sloane, you may run into other people like you who are trying to work on problems.

当你到了斯隆实验室的三楼,你可能会碰上其他,和你一样正在解决难题的同学们

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

A long path follows along the floor of Frijoles Canyon through an area of wildflowers and trees.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

So, call it a tie but then there's a lot more colleges that aren't yours than the one-- How many of you would you--say your best friend is somebody your-- currently on your same floor?

不分上下，但考虑到在耶鲁以外,还有那么多大学…,你们当中有多少人最好的朋友是-,现在和你在同一层楼上课的？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is why the fourth floor of Payne Whitney Gym is such a dangerous place and I urge you as your dean to be very careful there. Okay?

这就是为什么佩恩·惠特尼健身馆四楼,和危险的原因,作为院长，我劝你们,要十分小心？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选