They drill down to the shale, then go sideways and inject high-pressure water, sand or other material into the rock.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

But still, Northern Rock is in such trouble that in February of '08 -that's last month -the British Government nationalized Northern Rock.

008年2月北岩银行再次陷入危机,也就是上个月,英国政府将北岩银行国有化

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

My ex-boyfriend also loved rock and roll music. He listened to it every day.

我的前男友也喜欢摇滚乐。他每天都会听的。

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The study found a sixty-three percent increase in the number of people treated for rock climbing injuries in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Let's talk about pop music for a second: jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, that kind of thing.

我们再看一下流行音乐:,爵士,摇滚,嘻哈,蓝调,类似这些音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with two concerts later this month in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

But the fact is that I'm sure there are a few people - - thay may be more than a few in the facility - who do feel that rock and roll is not exactly what one says fit and proper.

不过事实上，我相信,在学校里确实有许多人-,认为摇滚和艺术,并不完全相称。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But in the nineteen sixties, the expression rolling stone became famous in the world of rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

For example, nowhere in the world would people consider eating a rock, because a rock is non-food across all cultures; but aside from that, there's great variability and so social construction part of this is very important.

举例来说,世界上没有哪里的人会想吃石头,因为不管在哪种文化中,石头都不能当做食物,但是除此之外,各地的食物丰富而多样,所以社会意识是非常重要的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

One day in eighteen seventy-nine while delivering mail Mister Cheval found a rock with a strange shape.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

We get great Mahler symphonies yet we have everybody sitting there rock-still at these concerts.

我们拥有伟大的马勒交响曲的同时,也要求大家在音乐会上要坐得像块石头

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It was his first album release. The album included everything from hip-hop, to rock,to pop to electronica.

VOA: special.2010.09.03

Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The three Mexican brothers from Texas have earned high praise for their mixture of rock,blues,soul and a kind of Mexican-Texan music called Tejano.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

He combined both influences to create a whole new kind of music -- rock and roll.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The most interesting theory about the Lost Colony started with a rock found in nineteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

But this next Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is scheduled to perform on October twenty-ninth during the first of two nights of concerts.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Today we explain a very old saying that has had a big influence on rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

They were suspended from ropes as they used heavy air-powered hammers to break any loose rock away from the face of the canyon walls.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Up in the mountains are clear lakes, quick-moving small rivers, and huge formations of rock.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland in nineteen ninety-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

But the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was founded twenty-five years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

By nineteen seventy-one, "Rolling Stone" had become the leading rock music and counterculture publication.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

Crosby,Stills and Nash entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Another hike is a twenty-two kilometer walk that ends at an unusual rock formation.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- twice.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

The three-day festival features music by heavy metal, alternative rock and hip-hop bands.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

This rock formation is made of white-gray quartzite, a kind of sandstone.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

From high in the air, visitors can clearly see the third area of the park -- a high broad flat rock known as the Island in the Sky.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Other big acts include pop star Lady Gaga, the punk rock band Green Day, the alternative rock band from Canada called Arcade Fire and the nineteen eighties techno-rock band Devo.

VOA: special.2010.08.02