James Burke of Duke University is one of the authors of a study reviewing previous research on cognitive decline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The funeral for the demographic decline took place at the same time as an international study on the origins of ancient Venetians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The United States and others have placed economic and other sanctions on the Mugabe government, whose land appropriation policies coincided with a massive decline in the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The scientists say if their work is confirmed, it could lead to further research on how lifestyle choices figure in the prevention and treatment of age-related decline and diseases such as Alzheimer's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He decided to do this out of his love for the city of Venice and because he thought it was important to put on display the real decline of the population, to raise public awareness.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"Even though we have slowed the loss of jobs,and today's report on the continued decline in unemployment claims is a hopeful sign, the economic growth that we have seen has not led to the job growth that we desperately need,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12