He took a room in an old house next to a magnificent garden filled with strange flowers and other plants.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

It was highly elevated above all other priorities and absort the lion share of effort and attention of the White House.

是压在所有其他首要任务之上的,在白宫人力物力方面,都占了很大的比重。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I live in a house with two other girls that sits on one of the waterfalls here in town,

我和另外两个女孩住在一起，我们的房子就在镇上的一个瀑布旁边，

康奈尔的教授不一样 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But from his office in the White House, he must also attend to his other duties as president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In other words, lower the amount insured below the actual value of the house to prevent moral hazard.

换句话说，将房屋的保险价值低估于其实际价值,以此来防范道德风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She told one of them: "I want you to take good care of all the furniture and other things in the house.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Some dorms have a theme, like an international house, where students can learn about other cultures.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Usually, in other universities, it would be like the fraternities and sororities would have a house, and they would all live together.

通常，在其他大学，像兄弟会和姐妹会的人会有一套房子，他们会住在一起。

和戏剧专业的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A hoop house is basically a metal frame covered with plastic or other all-weather material.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

So the language that different early Christians used about each other, and for themselves,was sometimes very common Greek language, but sometimes it would've also sounded strange and kind of in-house to other people.

所以早期基督教徒所使用的不同的,互称或自称的称谓，有些其实是普通的希腊语，但有时听起来很奇怪,对其他人来说像黑话。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Zaha Hadid has designed other striking buildings like the Guangzhou Opera House in China.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

He said he slept well in these wooden houses and that probably is because of his very unhappy childhood listening to relatives shouting at each other and plotting to kill each other in the big house.

他说在那些木屋里睡的很好,这可能是缘于他那并不愉快的童年,在这冰冷的大房子里,亲戚们的高声谩骂,彼此的秘谋暗杀,给他的童年留下了阴影

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Because of this,the house was able to create more electricity than any other design.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Isabella said in the letter that she would fill the house with art and beautiful old furniture called antiques so that other people could enjoy them.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

Streamlining soon extended to furniture and other objects for the house and office.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

He felt perfectly at ease. He had only to look at his tuxedo to know he belonged with all the other beautiful people in the opera house.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

In eighteen seventy-six, the electoral votes of three states -- Florida,Louisiana and South Carolina -- were enough to give the White House to one candidate or the other.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

House-Senate negotiations will also focus on other issues, including provisions regarding abortion services, and those involving participation for illegal immigrants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In a White House statement, President Obama said the bombings "serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

However,in a meeting at the U.S. Capitol with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, four prominent economists dampened that expectation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Obama will discuss, among other things, the steps are needed to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

There are other differences, some of them carried over from the previous Bush White House.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The visit comes just days after the United States and other Western nations condemned the military government's order to extend the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

As part of their efforts to improve their exposure and relationships with people worldwide, the Inuit and other native peoples of the region are hosting Canada's Northern House in downtown Vancouver.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

The president meets Wednesday with Senate Democrats, as the budget committee there and in the House of Representatives begin "marking up" budget resolutions, which form the framework for appropriations and other important legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

So I think that those two things kind of together, her own perspectives on the world, her lack of relationships on the other side have made for a divisive kind of leadership, that has come out of the House.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard Berman voiced hope the new treaty will set an example for other nuclear powers and help strengthen global nonproliferation efforts he says "severely threatened" by Iranian and North Korean efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"I was at the USA House the other day talking to somebody about our student group, and I went on after our discussion, and then he came back and he came over and shook my hand and said how impressed he was with what we were doing."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26