Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

I'm using it as an abstraction, saying I'm going to have square root from somewhere, maybe I'll build it myself, maybe somebody gives it to me a s part of a library, so I'm burying the details inside of it.

我把这个方法作为一个抽象来引用，意味着我将会从另外一个,地方去求一个数的平方根，可能我会自己写这个方法,也可能我会从别人写的lib中去引用,因此我将实现的细节放到了其他地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

First of all, it's clear from the Pythagoras' theorem that a is the square root of ^2 + ^2.

首先,根据毕达哥拉斯定理,勾股定理在西方被称为"毕达哥拉斯定理"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The University of Illinois Extension says cabbage is easily transplanted from bare-root plants or cell packs.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

But you do, in fact, have to worry about long-term exposure, cyanide poisoning in terms of long-term effects in certain populations that do get the bulk of their carbohydrates from this root, from the root of the Cassava plant.

但是你确实，不得不担心长时间的接触，氰化物的慢性中毒会对,从木薯根中获取大部分,碳水化合物的部分人群产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The steering wheel is made from root vegetables like carrots.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

This week,we move from root vegetables to a leafy vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Pakistan is an ally in the U.S.-led war against terrorism and has been under pressure from Washington to intensify efforts to root out extremists blamed for launching attacks on coalition forces across the border in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11