Farm workers and others who said they often used pesticides had a forty-one percent greater risk of Parkinson's than other people.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Ruralness is often used to explain the distinctiveness of Southern writing and art and so on.

一般来说,乡村气息通常被归结为,南方文学艺术的特色

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Because of the sort of particular character of the bassoon sound, it's often used to play sort of funny, little low-note characters in the orchestra.

由于巴松管的声音有这种特点,它总是用来表现幽默,在管弦乐队中演奏比较低沉部分

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Dogs are often used in search and rescue operations and to sniff for things like drugs and explosives.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

Often that signal gets amplified so it can be used, same thing happens inside cells and there's some output that's generated.

通常这些信号要放大后才会产生作用,诱发细胞内发生一些变化,并产生某种输出信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The name "Molly" was often used as an insult for an Irish girl, and nobody in her own life called her that.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

It used to be that government officials were all picked by political patronage and they, very often, were incompetent.

过去政府官员,通常都是走后门进来的,他们经常都是不称职的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Others hate that name. Whatever you call it, one artist often used as an example is the singer,songwriter and harp player Joanna Newsom.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

We'll talk more about this later, but it often happens that when you change your program to solve one problem you break it, and things that used to work don't work.

我们以后会更多的去讨论者一点，但是经常发生的情况是当你因为,一个问题修改你的程序的时候,你修改了程序,但原来没问题的模块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Kingpin is often used to describe an important criminal, or the leader of a criminal gang.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It's one of the interesting and curious features of the Protestant mask, Comus,that this is a distinction that's never really observed or acknowledged. Virginity and chastity seem to be used often and kind of awkwardly, I think, interchangeably.

这是新教徒面具里一种有趣而不寻常的特征，《科玛斯》，这是一种永远,不会被发现或是承认的区别，我觉得童贞和贞节,似乎经常被笨拙的互换使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These professional criminals often used force to take what they wanted -- cows,horses or money.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The horns are often used to make traditional medicines, or handles for dagger knives.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

One of its extended family members, Xenopus laevis, is often used in laboratory studies.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Cotinine levels in blood are often used to measure exposure to tobacco smoke.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

In earlier times, damselfish often used staghorn corals to grow in these areas.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Hot is a word that is often used to talk about anger.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Bleach is often used as a whitening agent when washing clothes.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

It is often used to express social and political issues.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

John Lewis often used a form of music called fugue.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Mean dogs are often used to guard this property.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Publishers often used their papers for political causes.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

A machine called a press is often used.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

"microcredit" and "microlending" are often used interchangeably.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The expression is often used today.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Chips are often used in card games.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The term is often used to refer to the United States. Security analyst Paul Ingram says such accusations are problematic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

"The definition of genocide that is most often used is the official U.N.definition in the Genocide Convention of the late 1940s.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The CT (Computed Tomography) Scan is a method often used to diagnose cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

One such material is asphalt, a substance often placed on top of buildings and used to cover road surfaces.

VOA: special.2010.03.02