In the beginning of his book there is a poem by Scottish writer Rubber Lewis Stevenson.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask?

还记得面具后面的橡皮筋不？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And this is where the rubber hits the road.

这是论战真正开始的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It will last about two years before the rubber pipes need to be replaced.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

A car is just some metal, plastic, rubber.

汽车就是铁，塑胶，还有橡胶组成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

After a few weeks, doctors made Cleveland a new jaw out of hard rubber.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Companies did produce agreements to restrict, for example, the production of paper and the production of rubber, and the production of steel, and the production of iron, and the production of railway lines, actually, even quite complicated things.

公司之间的签署了限制产量的协议,比如说有造纸业,橡胶制造业,炼钢业,冶铁业,铁路运输行业,当然还有更复杂的行业

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It tells the story of Carlos Fitzcarraldo, a rubber producer in Peru.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

If you think about it like a rubber band, maybe the more we can stretch the rubber band the better; but if you stretch too far and the rubber band snaps, that's not good, that's bad.

你可以想象一个橡皮筋,也许把它伸展得越长越好,但是你把它伸展得过长,以至绷断,那就不好,那很糟糕

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Rubber rafts carry them along the fastest parts of the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Others use inorganic material such as shredded rubber from tires.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Two rubber pipes are attached to the water storage tank.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Hold the bag in place with a rubber band.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Using non-performing rubber trees as a source of power also helps rejuvenate rubber production by making room for new planting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

But while Specter supports Obama's economic initiatives, he made clear he would not be a rubber stamp for Democrats.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

If properly managed, clearing and replanting trees in a 30-year cycle creates both a renewable source of energy and maximum rubber production.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Emergency rescue services went in with rubber boats to get survivors - many had climbed to the rooftops to escape the flood.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The firm Buchanan Renewable Energies is building a carbon-neutral power plant using woodchips from older rubber trees to generate 35 megawatts of electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Police responded by using tear gas, water cannons, baton charges and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"The rubber chips are available. The biomass is here. The difficulty is the distribution is not there,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

These development projects increase interest from investors wanting to plant export crops such as rubber.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Now,the plantation's eight million rubber trees may help fuel that recovery by producing low-cost electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The anti-government red shirts set up their own barricades of rubber tires and slowly drove a yellow tanker truck toward the soldiers, until shots were fired.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Before it went into effect some economists predicted the trade agreement would increase sales of Indonesian commodities such as palm oil,copper,and rubber, but would hurt low-end manufacturers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

It's a bunch of guys in skirts with rubber swords fighting monsters.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

In the U.S., some toys,like small rubber balls, must carry warning labels.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Natural rubber has anchored the Liberian economy for more than 75 years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The huge Firestone plantation east of the capital,Monrovia, remains the world's largest single natural rubber operation and was one of the first businesses to reopen after Liberia's long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13