In Transparency International's just-released 2009 survey of world corruption, Afghanistan was only one step above the bottom rung,ranking 179th out of 180 countries surveyed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

So let's step through this with a little more care And I keep saying, before we do it, - let's just actually try it out.

因此我会做做试验,我会去做一些实验性的输入，我可以输入。

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Probably I shouldn't have said it's a two-step process 'cause it's a three-step process to actually write and run it, and the third step is just going to be to run it.

也许我不应该说它是个两步完成的程序,准确来讲，应该是三步，前两步--写，第三步--运行。

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President Umaru Yar'Adua has come under pressure to step up his anti-graft drive in one of the world's most tainted countries since he came to power in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

It's always a half step--always a half step-- seventh degree, right below, right below the tonic.

它总是一个半音级,总是如此,第七级刚好在主音下面

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"It's a long awaited step." Paul Salem,who heads the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, thinks that President Obama's trip to Cairo is likely to have positive reverberations across the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Well, we've spent-- Let's step back and think of where we've been.

我们已经花了--,让我们退一步,想想我们都讨论了些什么

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Steven Russell, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Diabetes Unit and co-author of the study, the next step is for researchers to develop a portable system about the size of a cellular telephone.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Once you're doing this on your own, -- especially, for example, on exam 2, which is a ways down the road, you won't be able to look at those steps, so you need to make sure that you can go through them without looking at them, but for now we can look at them as we are actually learning how to draw the Lewis structures, and rather just go through them step-by-step, it's more interesting to do it with an example.

每当你要画一个路易斯结构的时候，特别是，比如，在第二次考试中，在不远的将来，你将看不到这张表，因此你需要确保自己在不看这张表,的情况下也能按照上面的流程来画，但是目前我们是可以看着这张表,来学习如何画路易斯结构的，而相比于一步一步地讲，通过例子来演示一下会更有意思。

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the new treaty is also a major step in the goal of "resetting" the U.S.-Russia relationship, which includes efforts to deal with nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

But it's just--F is just a half step away, so that's good.

也只是半音级的距离,很好

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So that's to be expected. And we're going to continue with our efforts to achieve an early re-launch of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians because we believe that's an essential step toward achieving the comprehensive peace to which I earlier referred."

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

So it turns out that there's a two-step process.

好像有两步要走。

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But in a press appearance here, she said the resolution of the standoff - with the reinstatement of the country's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - was a resolution by the Pakistanis themselves and a hopeful first step toward broader dialogue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

It's really a three-step process.

这分为三个步骤。

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Well, a whole step here--there's one half, there's another half, would take us to F, whole step above F, would take us to G.

是一个全音级,这里是半个,这里是另外半个,这就到了F,F之后一个全音级,就到了G

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