For example, the gunfight did not really take place in the OK Corral, but near it in a field just off a main street in town.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed, our hero takes his place.

所以当另一个人被装在车里押到断头台行刑时，我们的主角就代替了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

especially with trying to learn Spanish, It'd be the great place to finally kick it off with that.

尤其是在我努力学习西班牙语的时候，这是我开启西语之路的绝佳地点。

在美国旅游的经验 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Many battles took place just off the coast of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

It's all very mysterious and we send off a spaceship to investigate the markings, the radio signals from the other place.

一切都很神秘,所以我们,派遣一艘飞船去调查星球上的印记,以及那些从其他星球传来的无线电信号

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the greatest results could take place off the field.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

He's living, at this point, at Woburn Place, Yeats is, in London, where one of the bombs went off in London two summers ago, right outside Yeats's house.

他当时住在沃本住所，去年夏天在伦敦两起炸弹爆炸,有一起正好发生在，叶芝伦敦住宅前。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He started off with the Srebrenica, where the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys took place.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A famous standoff took place there when boats arrived from each direction, and neither captain would back off.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Of almost 300 pirate attacks the maritime organization recorded for 2008, more than 100 took place on the high seas off Somalia's coast.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

The place is a fog-shrouded, desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27