But where can you hope to find a widow who would waste her time on a marriage proposal that has no marriage in it?"

VOA: special.2010.04.24

I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day-- for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal.

我也喜欢泰国菜，但是想到日复一日-,吃上几十亿年,看似不再是美妙提议。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So he says, no one would take seriously the proposal that a human organism learns through experience to have arms rather than wings, or that the basic structure of particular organs results from accidental experience.

他认为,没人会相信人体组织通过学习经验,长出了手臂而不是翅膀,或者特定器官的基本结构,是偶然经验的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

No one welcomed the proposal.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The proposal has already affected Carlsberg, which brews Russia's No.1 beer,Baltica.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The proposal has received almost no Republican support in Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08