Or the British could have been killed by Spanish troops who came up from what is now Florida.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I looked hard at him. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon, or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

We die while it's still the case that living another ten years or twenty years or for that matter five hundred years-- would still or could still have been good for us.

我们死的时候,接下来的十年，二十年,或者五百年-,对我们可能是美好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

She said many of today's leaders in Latin America, like President "Lula" da Silva of Brazil or President Evo Morales of Bolivia, could never have been elected in previous decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18