She explains that you can make a compost pile or dig a pit or use a waste container with holes cut in the side.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

I would be grateful if you would wait until that point if at all you possibly can. It just makes the whole thing work a little easier and it prevents that drop in the pit of my stomach when I see half of the class leave.

我将感激不尽,这样会好一点,以免我看到半数人走掉时,心情会受到影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Your stomach sinks, you have that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, when you get a bad grade on a test.

当你考试考砸的时候,你的胃会垂下去,或者说,会有胃部下垂的感觉

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In nineteen sixty-nine, scientists began digging at one area of La Brea called Pit Ninety-One.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Greyhounds are supposed to be more passive and gentle than pit bulls.

我们觉得灵缇犬比斗牛犬,更温驯。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

On New Year's Day, after church we'll go out and sit in the goose pit and do some hunting for Canada geese and also ducks."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

If I told you that I decided to buy a greyhound instead of a pit bull because I wanted a dog of a gentle temperament, nobody would scream that I'm a dog racist involving--and--but honestly, it's a stereotype.

如果我告诉你我决定,买一条灵缇犬，而不是斗牛犬,因为我想要一条温驯的狗，没有人会说我是狗品种主义者,但说实话，这就是刻板印象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

VOA: special.2009.02.02

They have found more than forty thousand fossils in Pit Ninety-One.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

They were pit houses, dug partly underground.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The Intel protests pit holy tradition against high-technology and point to the dilemma of trying to apply ancient Jewish law in a modern Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Many hope they will get jobs at the new gold mine. Saidu Kamara supports his family by working in one of the small pit mines inside the Baomahun site.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22