On a positive note, the United Nations estimates the number of child soldiers worldwide has fallen to 250,000 compared to 300,000 five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

We're off because our downbeats, our strong pulses always have to come on the first part of the bar, this note.

我们做错了,因为我们的重拍,我们的强拍,总是在每个小节的第一拍的那个音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now the shame here is that she's talking about a version of the ending you see in that note on 413 in our edition.

不幸的是,她说的,结尾是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On a less positive note, the number of newly laid off Americans seeking unemployment benefits totaled 551,000 last week, up from 534,000 the previous week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In fact, it's interesting to note that the first calculation on the impact of CO2 on climate was done in the late 1800's by Arrhenius.

很有趣地,是阿列纽斯在19世纪末,第一个做了的关于二氧化碳,对气候的影响的计算。

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This was an Olympics , that began on a sad note after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a young luge athlete from Georgia, during a practice run on the same day as the opening ceremonies.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

It did not have a government monopoly on note issue but over the time it became the prime issuer of U.K. notes.

在纸币发行上，它并没有政府垄断者的角色,但是随着时间的流逝,它成为了英国纸币的主要发行者。

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So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.

那么我就到此为止了，星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。

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