So the controversy is how do you do that." He says the current debate has deep roots in the Constitution.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

He was trying to describe electrons, but the theory said there are two roots in the quadratic equation and the second root is mathematically as interesting as the first one.

他当时只是想去描述电子,但是数学理论告诉我们,二次方程有两个根,而第二个根在数学上和第一个根一样有趣

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Suppose I want to compute square roots a lot of places in a big chunk of code.

假设我想在一大段代码中,计算很多次平方根。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Many Chicago neighborhoods have ethnic roots in Poland, Germany, Ireland and Italy.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

This move roots Frost's poetry of work in the lives of rural workers, people who have to sustain and entertain themselves, often on their own or alone.

这运动将弗罗斯特的诗歌扎根进,乡村工人的生活中，扎根进必须独自，支撑和娱乐他们自己的人中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The new proposals have roots in disputes involving two companies.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

We're going to look to some extent today and mostly next Tuesday at the roots and origins of an anti-slavery ideology, a growing anti-slavery ideology in its many layered forms.

今天讲一部分内容,下周二我们重点会讲到,反奴隶意识形态的根基,那是一个蔓延在许多阶层中的,反奴隶制意识形态

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The MRAP vehicle has its roots in the Iraq war. Improvised Explosive Devices wreaked havoc with the boxy, M-1151 Humvees.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

Now I want to really clarify for you what I mean by this term "modernism." It just means the art and literature of the early twentieth century, especially the "high art," although its roots are definitely in the nineteenth century, especially the French nineteenth century, fiction and poetry.

现在我特别想向大家解释清楚,“现代主义“到底是什么意思，它其实就是指,20世界早期的艺术和文学作品，特别是高雅艺术“,尽管它起源于19世纪，特别是19世纪法国的小说和诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

with Muslims of countless races and ethnicities,and with roots in every corner of the world."

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Christianity's main roots were in Judaism, a religion that worshipped a single, all powerful deity, who is sharply separated from human beings, makes great moral demands upon them, and judges them all, even kings and emperors.

基督的主要来源是犹太教,这种宗教崇拜单一的,无所不能的神,它独立于人类而存在,作出种种道德要求和评判,即使君主和帝王也不例外

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For several years,al-Shabab, which follows the ultra-conservative branch of Islam propagated by al-Qaida and the Taliban, has been trying to eradicate Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, which has deep roots in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Roots of Peace says a landmine costs anywhere from three to thirty dollars to produce and place in the ground.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

When the roots show through the holes in the bottom of the pot, transplant each seedling into a twelve-centimeter pot.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

When the roots show through the holes in the bottom of the pot, transplant each seedling into a twelve centimeter pot.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

They have roots that stand in saltwater and look like cablesor ropes laid one on top of another.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The Institute's "Roots and Shoots" program is aimed at getting young people interested in environmental activism and leadership.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Some people say their interest in genealogy came from watching an eight-part series on American television called "Roots."

VOA: special.2010.06.28

They say the roots develop better. But Jeffrey Dinslage, president of Nature Hills Nursery in Omaha,Nebraska, points out that bare-root roses come without soil.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Rounder is a major label that specializes in roots music, including bluegrass and old-time country.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

Then dig a hole in the ground bigger than the lettuce roots.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

When you put a small seedling in, the roots are not deep enough to go into that water reservoir, so we need to bring the water up to the plant."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

"Roots" was first broadcast in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Many in these stricken villages say their roots are here and in spite of the disaster, they are deeply tied to the land and people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says grass roots activists are demanding that Republicans adhere to conservative principles in advance of next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

It was a return to his roots. He began his work in the 1940s in Mexico, breeding wheat crops that were immune to another type of wheat rustthat had devastated crops there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16