The severe economic crisis -- the Great Depression -- created an atmosphere for artistic imagination and creative expression.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

Somebody with a severe and profound loss of mental faculties-- the deficit will be shown correspondingly in her brain.

对于严重丧失心理官能的人来说,我们可以看到她在大脑相应部位的损伤

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a huge price to pay in a pass-no-record first semester class . And, you know who is most severe on the committee on discipline?

这个代价太大了，只为了,第一次学期通过一门无记录的课程,你们知道着纪律委员会,谁最为严厉吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

People infected with the virus walk in a bent-over position because of the severe pain in the joints.

VOA: special.2009.04.13

And as I mentioned before, death would occur in 20-30 percent of the cases that got the most severe form of smallpox.

就像我刚说的,百分之二十到三十的,天花重症病人会死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That is why it is hard to tell a powerful storm, Hurricane Andrew, caused severe damage to the area in nineteen ninety-two.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

This is a very-- it's fascinating that it happens at all, that you have severe damage but compensated with some powerful skill.

这种现象总会发生,个体出现严重损伤,但某些技能却会变得强大以作为补偿

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But since then, the twenty-five year old had experienced severe hip and back problems.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

It's contagious, that is, it's transferred to other persons or objects, depending on how receptive they are--perhaps by physical touch, perhaps in the case of severe impurity by sharing an enclosed space, by being together under an overhanging roof, tent.

它会传染给另一个人，另一个物体，这取决于它们的接受度，也许是通过肢体接触，也许是因为呆在一个与世隔绝的空间里，同在一个屋檐下。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That is just under the wind-speed of a hurricane,a very severe ocean storm.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

In nineteen seventy-nine, Ashe felt severe pain in his chest.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

It also reduced cases of severe malaria by forty-nine percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The Sherman Anti-trust Law sounded severe.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Osteoarthritis is usually treated with pain relievers and anti-inflammatory drugs, but in severe cases, the damaged joint can be replaced with an artificial one.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Sinclair-Thompson says the travel industry and governments gained experience in dealing with health crises in 2003, when Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome hit the region.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Unusually severe rains began falling on September 1 in Burkina Faso, depositing about one-quarter of the country's annual rainfall on the capital,Ouagadougou in just one day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Dr.Chan said all countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans and countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

The president says Congress must put politics aside, and understand that America has the ability to handle detainee cases - from those easily transferred to civilian courts, to those considered a severe threat who for one reason or another cannot be prosecuted.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

But an even more astounding result for us from this survey, which encompassed 1,000 adults a random telephone survey in January of this year, was that over 800 of the respondents - that's over four out of five people - say they are still buying green products, still buying green products in a very severe recession."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30