On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

So, some people in their day-to-day lives have many interactions and I think one of the things we know from interacting with people is we can distinguish them from other people.

这些人在日常生活有接触到很多人,我们在与别人的接触中了解到,我们可以把他们与别人区分开来。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Remember your task for this week-- a dozen of you have already read it-- it's to commit- above and beyond what you usually commit- five extra acts of kindness during one day.

记得你们这周的任务-,一些同学已经知道-,就是去做超越以往所做的事情-,一天内多做五件好事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

One person might be a little low one day, another person might be high, a lot of people might-- you might happen to have captured them on an average day, but overall it averages out, so you get a representative sample.

一个人可能某一天少吃些,另一个人可能多吃些,很多人都会这样,你可能正好得出人们,平均每天的摄入量,但把它的整体平均一下,就得到有代表性的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Their ad in the newspapers started a flood of letters - more than one hundred a day.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

On average, each adolescent reported using some kind of media five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Better working conditions. One of its first demands was an eight-hour work day.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

They held a three-day celebration in the fall of sixteen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Each day,a team of researchers followed one of the ninety-four chimps.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

It was the second day of June, eighteen fifty-one.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Thomas Cargill from the Britain-based research group Chatham House says Zimbabwe will be one of the topics discussed during President Zuma's three-day visit to Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Unusually severe rains began falling on September 1 in Burkina Faso, depositing about one-quarter of the country's annual rainfall on the capital,Ouagadougou in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The stock market gave a resounding vote of confidence to the Geithner plan as stocks rallied by nearly seven percent, their biggest one-day gain since October.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

That means that one-quarter of Burkina Faso's annual rainfall happened in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

But nearly one-half of its people live on less than $1 per day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

U.N.Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes visited the conflict zone,Friday, during a three-day visit to Yemen, inspecting one of five refugee camps in the north of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

On the one-month anniversary of that violence, Sow says Guineans want to remember that day by inviting everyone, especially women and young girls to stay at home and pray.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

His one-day visit to Bucharest was part of a trip through Eastern Europe intended to reassure Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic that America's commitment to the region remains strong.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Shortly after making his comments, the president left for an eight-day trip to Asia, where the economy will be one of the main topics of his meetings with other countries' leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

More than 150,000 people have left their homes in Burkina Faso, many in the capital Ouagadougou, where the United Nations says the amount of rain that fell in one day last week equals one-quarter of the nation's average annual rainfall.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06