At one time, the president who had retreated and retreated until he was pressed against the wall, could only be secured by a number of gentlemen forming round him and making a kind of barrier of their own bodies.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

It's like you have a social security number or other ID number, which positively--there might be another person with the same name as you, God forbid, but you at least have your own number, which is guaranteed to be unique to you.

就好比社保号,或者其他身份号码,很有可能,有另外一个人,和你重名,希望这不要发生,但你至少有唯一的识别号,用于区分自己和他人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All that matters is the ratio: how many shares I own divided by the number of shares outstanding.

比例才是最根本的要素,我有的股数除以总发行股数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"This is absolutely unbelievable situation where a terrorist group holds a large number of hostages to demand a cease-fire to save its own skin."

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Their chief concerns with this are,number one, the price tag of whatever proposal that Democrats are creating and,number two, the concern that their own health care will not be the same as it was before a bill gets passed,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

We own our own phone number, that allows you to input key strokes like you would any system and this is an example of what we call CS50 Voice.

我们都有电话号码，这就让我们可以输入任意的数字,然后这是CS50，Voice的一个例子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选