He loved to learn.He was a self-taught lawyer who served for eight years as an Illinois state representative.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I also served for the two years before that as the policy director of President Bush's presidential campain, working at the Texas.

在那之前，我做过两年的,布什总统选举的,政策主任，在德州工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson Joining me today, two colleagues of mine at the Hoover Institution Both are economists, Kenn Judd and John Taylor ... John Taylor also served for two and half, three years Four years Four years, essentially in the entire first term?

欢迎收看“非同寻常的知识，我是主持人皮特·罗宾逊,今天请到的是，我在胡佛研究院的两位同事,均为经济学家，肯·贾德和约翰·泰勒,约翰·泰勒曾经有两年半，三年,四年,四年，基本上整个任期内？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The Senate does not. Senator Robert Menendez - a New Jersey Democrat - served for many years in the House and has some advice for his former colleagues.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

I served as Master of Silliman College for six years and during that time I would get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and start working.

我在西利曼学院当了六年院长,那时我会在早上五点或五点半起床,并开始工作

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He was Robert E.Lee. Lee was a Virginian and had served in the United States army for more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

If you go to the dining hall you know, the portions-- one person serves themselves this much of a food and another serves themselves another, and then when you go to a restaurant there are variations on how much you get served of things, and so it's very hard to estimate portions for people.

如果你去食堂,摄入量是指,一个人吃了自己的那部分食物,或其他人吃的他们的那一部分,当你去餐厅,每次吃多少是变化的,因此估算每个人的摄入量是很难的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The idea was to make it easier for prisoners to rejoin their communities after they served their jail sentences.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

For the children at Saint Christine's, the mid-day meal they are served might be their only meal all day.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

In the seventeen hundreds, the land on which the Harborplace development was built served as a trade center for Baltimore.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

Vick recently served eighteen months in federal prison for running a dog fighting operation in which he also killed dogs.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Surrender finally came for General Robert E.Lee and the Confederacy he had served as a great soldier.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Mrs.Clinton served as First Lady of the Arkansas for twelve years after Bill Clinton became governor.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Oahu served as the command base for American operations in the Pacific during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

They were called Jubilee Housing. James and Patricia Rouse served as advisors for Jubilee Housing.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

It has served nutritious, hot breakfasts to homeless people for more than 25 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

For almost ten years before that, the archeologist had served as chief antiquities official.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

He served in the Senate for a total of twelve years.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He had served in the House of Representatives for seventeen years.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He served as the director of the NAACP for fifteen years.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Van Buren served as secretary of state for 2 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

During that time,she worked to improve the education system in Arkansas and served on the Children's Defense Fund and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization that she helped create.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Fred Noonan served as navigator for the flight.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Over the years, the valley has served as a refuge for those in search of solitude, not just Christians, but Sufi Muslims,too.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The tribal areas he controls have served as a major safe haven for al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

She says these groups have been operating since 2008 and many of the militants had served prison sentences for past terrorist activities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

Alexander Konovalov head of the Moscow-based Institute for Strategic Assessments says Wednesday's attack served two purposes.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21