The existence of the North Pacific Garbage Patch first gained public attention in nineteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

I am going to forget it now, and then I will patch it in at the end.

我将要忽略它，并在最后加上它。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This is a picture of patch clamp, it's a device that engineers built to fasten onto individual cells in order to look at how molecules in the membrane of the cell are working, and I'll talk a little bit about that as we go along.

这是膜片钳的图片,工程师使用该装置固定单个细胞,由此观察,细胞膜中的分子怎样活动,在以后的课中我还会谈到这方面内容

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The military says heavy clashes are taking place as troops advance toward a 30-square-kilometer patch of jungle in which the Tamil Tigers are cornered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The way these things work, when you are engaged in agriculture, it's natural to go first to that soil, to that patch of land which is known to be likely to produce the best land, the most fertile, the best product, the most fertile land there is.

这一方式是这样运作的,当你从事农业,你自然而然的会首先关注土壤因素,去找出已知土地中最为肥沃的那一块,土地越肥沃,产量越高,就越追求更为肥沃的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Austan Goolsbee spoke on Fox News Sunday: "It is going to be a rough patch not just in the immediate term, but for a little bit of time ".

VOA: standard.2009.06.07