In 2009,Russians marked 300 years since their country defeated Sweden in the decisive Battle of Poltava, in which Russia replaced that Scandinavian country as the great power of Northern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

With Jacob, who is now Israel, God seems perhaps to finally have found The working relationship with humans that he has been seeking since their creation.

在成为以色列人的雅各布身上，上帝似乎终于找到,与人类的劳作关系,他自创世起一直在寻求这种关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There is some research done by the psychologist Judy DeLoache at University of Virginia where she's studying babies' fears of spiders and snakes, babies obviously who, since their parents are normal, have not yet seen spiders and snakes.

这是心理学家朱迪·德洛克的研究,在弗吉尼亚大学,她研究孩子对蜘蛛和蛇的恐惧，孩子们，如果父母是正常人的话，从未见过蜘蛛和蛇。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Major measures of United States markets have closed with their biggest one-day losses since the financial crisis of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

In their silence they were themselves. "They"ve only recently learned to sell these crystals since the highway was built about ten years back.

只有在平静中，她们才显露出自己的真实面目,“她们是在最近才学会卖这些水晶石的，大概是10年前。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In all three of America's biggest cities, murder rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1960s.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

At least since the eighteenth century, these lines have been singled out for their beauty and, considering that Milton is describing the hideous demons under Satan's control, the pastoral elegance of this little simile really catches us off guard.

至少从19世纪起，这些句子因为它们的美感经常被单列出来，并被认为是弥尔顿在描述撒旦控制下的可怕的恶魔,这个小比喻诗歌上的优雅,确实使我们毫无防备。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Since nineteen ninety-eight, fifty-two women scientists from twenty-six countries have been recognized for their work.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

As you can see, part of the reason why the dividend-earnings ratio-- especially in more recent years, since 1990-- has been declining is that corporations were trying to somewhat ease the tax burden on their shareholders by doing repurchase instead of dividend.

可以看出,股利收益比降低的部分原因,尤其是在近些年,从1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通过将分红,改为股票回购的方法,多少减轻股东的税负

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And their original meanings are long since forgotten.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

What this means, if you average it out, is that since children start learning their first words at about their first year of life, they learn about nine new words a day.

如果你将这个数字平均一下,这意味着,儿童从一岁左右,学习第一个词开始,每天学会九个新词

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Their infection rate has doubled since nineteen ninety-six.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

But that is not expected to stop prosecutors from outlining their most important case since former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

This is Miami's Little Havana, where Cuban immigrants and their children have lived,worked, and shopped since the early 1960s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

In the nearly two decades since the Cairo conference, at least 17 countries have liberalized their abortion laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Daryl Kimball says since the START-One treaty was signed, the United States and Russia have slashed their strategic nuclear arsenals even more.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

IOM has been providing humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable internally displaced people, returnees and other women and their families since 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Since he was attacked, the Yellows have brought in their own security guards from around the country to protect his rare rallies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

And on the night of November 9, tens of thousands of Berliners flocked to the wall which had divided their city since 1961.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

This was highly unusual, since most places in the South have tried to paint over or tear down remnants of their segregationist past.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor,Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Dr.Chris Brasher served in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where according to MSF, more than four million people have lost their lives since 1997.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

No other act had topped both charts since 1983, when Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton achieved that feat with their duet, "Islands In The Stream."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Since then, he has been drawing attention to the needs of tens of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes and relatives in the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

The United Nations says up to 150,000 people in Yemen have been forced to flee their homes since the intermittent fighting first began in 2004.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Ties between Washington and New Delhi are at perhaps their warmest since Indian independence.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Palestinian leaders on Sunday stuck to their demands that Israel stop all settlement activity before any resumption of peace talks that have been stalled since December.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

McJilton says since the downturn began, the number of their Tokyo clients has doubled.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The stock market gave a resounding vote of confidence to the Geithner plan as stocks rallied by nearly seven percent, their biggest one-day gain since October.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Much has changed since that time. Sobriety,his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman and the birth of their eight-month-old daughter,Sunday Rose, gave him a new perspective on life.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19