About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

This is, you see, also on 2 at the beginning here: I went to the cold-water flat with the boys and Dean came to the door in his shorts.

你们看，这也是在第二页的开始：,我和男孩们去了冷水公寓,安穿着短裤来到门口。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The personal income tax is not simple; it's not just a flat rate on your income, it depends on the type of income.

个人所得税计税方法并不简单,并不是统一的征收税率,而是取决于你收入的类型

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Like what? Like watch baseball on the flat-screen?

VOA: standard.other

Probably never that easy but really, you're just not going to lose, and the truth of the matter is that hoplites beat non-hoplites in all battles that are fought on flat land in battles that the Greeks fight in.

也许不是那么的容易,不过总会胜利的,事实上,在所有希腊人打的平原战中,方阵部队无一例外地击败了非方阵部队

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Then they rubbed the clothes on flat pieces of wood, squeezed out the water and hung each piece to dry.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

No.He just keeps that same E-flat chord for about six minutes at the beginning of the Overture to Rheingold, and on the basis of that you know there's going to be a very long opera.

没有莱茵的黄金序曲的前6分钟全部是E大调和弦，由此可见这是一部非常长的歌剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

A flat-topped boat called the On-Time Ferry takes people and cars to a nearby small island,Chappaquiddick.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

We should call it E-flat and put it up on the E line because there's kind of rule here that you have to use up each letter name in turn, each letter name in turn.

我们应该称之为降E,把它放在E的谱线上,因为这算是一个规则,要依次使用每个字母,依次用每个字母

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It sits flat on the ground with the bottom open to the earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Men lay flat on the ground. They prayed for the shelling to stop.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

The runway is built on a flat stretch of land on a hill, with a sheer drop on both sides.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The streets are mostly flat. Rick Fire,Waterz' partner, was wounded several years ago by a stray bullet on the way home from school.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

"Well,one of the things that's interesting about these flexible sheets is that they can be curved, so you could imagine putting them in unconventional forms, like on the surface of a vehicle or something like that, where you don't have a flat surface."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19