They chose the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States as the top news story of 2008.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

How does this interesting human rights, the value of human rights pertain to the United States?

人权问题，人权价值观,到底在美国是什么样的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Sure, Columbia University is one of the oldest universities in the United States, I think. Number 4 or 5, I believe.

当然，哥伦比亚大学是美国最古老的大学之一。我想它大概是第四或第五古老的吧。

哥伦比亚的名人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

I mean, in some ways, for all of the European criticisms of the United States, we've in some ways incorporated different religious traditions better than the Europeans.

我是指，在一些方面，尽管欧洲对美国有诸多批评，我们在一些方面融合了,不同的宗教传统，我们做得比欧洲人要好。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The writing on the stone says in large letters: Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

What it was was in many ways an effort to bring the Bank of England to the United States.

从很多角度来说，它是个,将英格兰银行,引入美国的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

One-third of every steamboat built in the United States before 1850 exploded and destroyed became a wreck.

850年以前,美国制造的每三艘蒸汽船,就有一艘爆炸或毁坏,彻底地报销

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Secretary Clinton chaired the meeting, held on the last day of the United States' month-long presidency of the council.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

I'd like to ask you what the biggest killer was in 1900. What-- which of these things took the most lives in the United States?

你们认为1900年时的头号杀手是什么,哪一项在美国的致死人数最多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In 1958 she was appointed a delegate to the United Nations, expanding her job as goodwill ambassador of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

That's why it's so important culturally for the history of the United States.

那就是为什么那地方,在文化上对于美国的历史而言非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The strong,clear images he drew and painted matched the wild, developing and proud United States of the late eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The action will let the Treasury Department block or seize any of their money within reach of United States laws.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

For instance, if you look at newspaper reports about murders, in cultures like the United States the report tends to emphasize the personal characteristics of the person accused of the murder.

例如在报纸上看到一宗谋杀宗，像美国这样的文化就会着重于报道,被指控为凶手的人的性格特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Within two months of Cleveland's inauguration, the United States entered into one of the worst economic depressions in its history.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

And, so, you can see how this would have an impact on every country, on the United States--those of you who've taken American history, this sort of view that immigrants were increasingly bringing socialism and anarchism to the United States.

由此我们能看出巴黎公社对世界各国,对美国的影响,那些学过美国历史的人懂的,移民们越来越多,在美国宣扬社会主义和无政府主义

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The United States Census Bureau estimates that there are almost forty-seven million people of Hispanic heritage living in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

If you were to say to me, what do you think is the most important thing, however you define thing, that has changed the character of life in the United States in the twentieth century, I would say the disappearance of farmers.

如果你问我,我认为什么才是,最重要的东西,你认为是什么,在二十世纪改变了,美国人的生活方式,我会说是农民退出了历史舞台

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

Three years from now, that is after the next president has had time to enact this program and the program has had some time to begin taking effect will the number of illegal immigrants in the United States be higher, lower or about the same? Ken Judd.

年后，这期间，下届总统有可能制定相关法案,而该法案刚好也已经生效,美国境内的非法移民,是增多，减少还是持平？，肯·贾德你先来。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

It said a citizen of the United States could not be prevented from voting because of his color.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

you know, sort of young children education programs in the United States catch up to nice countries, like Korea.

美国的一些儿童教育项目也在紧跟一些出色的国家的步伐，比如韩国。

优秀的MBA人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And he was the first black director of the United States Information Agency which at the time supervised the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.

992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Now,at last, the two coasts of the United States were united by a single line of metal rail.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

As those doses were given you look at the prevalence of polio within the United States.

随着疫苗的使用,你可以看到全美小儿麻痹症

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Bill Gates and Michael Jordan are citizens of the United States.

盖茨和乔丹都是美国公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选