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

clothes off and attacking the lice that are attacking them.] Soon like a demons' pantomime The place was raging.

袭击那些袭击他们的虱子],很快像是恶魔的哑剧,这个地方狂暴了，这是夜间，蜡烛和火焰。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

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

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

What they mean by that is, if you're a builder and you have this place where you show off your model homes, how many people are coming by to look at your model homes today as potential buyers?

意思就是,如果你是建造商,你有地方展示样板房,预计今天会有多少潜在顾客,来看样板房

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.27