One well known work by the French painter Jean Antoine Watteau shows a man in a garden playing a musical instrument.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

His invasions at one time are turned back when they literally open the dykes and flood the French armies back.

他的入侵曾一度被击退,因为荷兰人,真的"开闸泄洪",大水把法军淹得够呛

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

One of the things they can do is suck, and these babies would suck on a pacifier to hear French.

他们能做的事情之一就是吮吸,这些婴儿听到法语时会去吮吸奶嘴

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

(Music: "C'est Si Bon") "C'est Si Bon," or "It's So Good" in French, was one of Eartha Kitt's first hit songs.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

It does not take one to know one; to understand the truths about the French, you do not yourself need to be French.

这不需要同类互知,你不需要是法国人,才能了解法国人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of her first jobs for the magazine was a series of stories about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

These are broker-dealers some of them are international like BNP Paribas is one of them--it's French.

它们都是经纪自营商,其中一些是国际的,比如巴黎国民银行是法国的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said Van Buren slept in the same kind of bed as the one used by the French King, Louis the 15th.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

"Do you think anyone can govern innocently," Saint-Just the phrase taken of course from Saint-Just, one of the leaders of the Jacobin Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

你认为有人能够清白无辜地进行统治吗“,当然这句话出自，法国大革命期间雅各宾恐怖统治集团中的,一位领导者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Things such as: "The strongest tie of human sympathy should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues. " A group representing hundreds of French students sent this message: "In President Lincoln we mourn a fellow citizen.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

It was a phenomenal thing, and she ended up on this very famous French television show called Apostrophe, with Bernard Pivot, who said that she was one of the most interesting people that he'd ever had on his show. And she died in 1977.

真的很了不起,她最后和伯纳德·皮沃特一起上了一个,法国著名的电视节目,叫"省略号",他说她是上这个节目的最有趣的人之一,她最后死于1977年

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

(Speaking in French) One young man described being denied jobs at upscale French hotels, ostensibly because of his North African background.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Others are American blues. One,a kind of prehistoric love song, is in the style of the French romantic singer Maurice Chevalier.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

They may not know French from Spanish, but they know that that's in one group and English and German are in another group."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

During the French colonial era, about one million pepper plants were grown in the province, mainly to produce pepper for export to France.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

The French-run PT Palyja, one of two private companies that control Jakarta's water supply, provides only a communal tank for the local residents to use.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

One of his lawyers,Antonin Levy, called the decision by the French court politically motivated.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

(Speaking) One irate man told French radio he did not understand why Lyon airport authorities did not open at least one runway, closed by a 20-centimeter snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

That is one of the highest rates in Europe. Young French are even harder hit Anne Sonnet is an OECD economist specializing in the youth labor market.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

One survivor of the roundup, recounted the experience on French radio.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Smith-Valade told VOA one of the key communications objectives for the Vancouver Olympics was to present Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, which are also the two languages of the IOC.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In initial reports, senior Somali military and police officials said a foreigner approached government soldiers near the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu early Wednesday, identifying himself as one of the French men abducted by gunmen at the Sahafi Hotel last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26