Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.

这就是海岸平原，它提供了或说它本身就是,离开埃及或者下埃及的主要通道。

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That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.

在出埃及记时期，这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布，靠近海岸平原，是低矮的山区。

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One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Inside the suitcase is a plain piece of white paper and the children were asked to draw the things they think they would need on the trip. Sometimes they get they wouldn't need.

行李箱里面是一张普通的白纸,我要求孩子们,在纸上画出他们认为必要的,旅行用品，有时候他们画出来的并不需要。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Take, for example, "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."

看，西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“

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Annetta Cheek heads the Center for Plain Language in Silver Spring,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

No, they grow up like the Athenian does, right smack in the middle of a plain, which is a good place for farming, with a great high acropolis available.

它们和雅典的扩展方式类似,在一个平原的中心扎根,因为那里适合农业生产,然后建起一座高大的卫城

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He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

You'll notice I have the string with the number 1 MIT a string with MIT, and then it just a plain old number, not a string, again it didn't quite give me 3.3 for reasons we've talked before, a and now it in the list a.

你们可以看到这儿有个以字符串1,形式显示的数字1，1个字符串,还有一个非字符串形式的平常数字,结果并不是3。3，原因之前我们，已经讨论过了，还有一个在list中的。

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The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

In plain English, this says that there are two electrons in the 1s orbital.

通俗地说,就是1s轨道上有两个电子的意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They should have some courage, and they should stop it. It is no good for the players, and somehow I hope the players have the ability around the world to stand up and say we are not playing on this, plain and simple."

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

If you look at your map you will see first on the west side, you've got a low coastal plain. It is about 20 or 30 miles wide.

如果看地图的话，你会首先在西端看到，你会看到地势低的海岸平原，大约20到30公里宽。

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What's important in My Fair Lady is to - repeat the repetitiousness of verse-- the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain -in terms of the tautology of the plot.

重要的是窈窕淑女中,这种韵律的加强-,“西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“,韵律的反复加强了情节。

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The Plain of Megiddo also joins with the Valley of Jezreel.

美厉多平原与耶斯列山谷相接。

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I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.

我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。

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So the first half of the book of Joshua contains a streamlined, idealized account according to which the Israelites managed in a relatively short period to take the central hill country, confining the Philistines to a little strip here on the coastal plain. We will come to the Philistines in a minute.

因此《约书亚书》第一部分包含了,一种流线行，理想化的叙述，据此,以色列人在相对较短的时期内设法,攫取中央山地，将腓利士人，逼至狭窄条形地带,逼至海岸平原，我们待会儿将要说到腓利士人。

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