BP's board also confirmed what had been widely predicted in recent days, company's CEO Tony Hayward is stepping aside.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

As opposed to rationally stepping up when something appears relatively attractive and overweighting and then leaning against the wind by selling something that's performed well.

对比理性行事,适度增持有吸引力的资产,而后逆风而行,将资产卖出,即使资产业绩良好

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Last week,U.S.President Barack Obama said there was "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism", which was stopping some countries from stepping up to the plate.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

And one of the things we really try to use the Capstone project for is a stepping stone into what you are going to do with your application.

我们很想利用总结性课程,作为踏脚石，让学生,更顺利地展开应用。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And here the European Union is now I wouldn't say taking the lead but clearly stepping up efforts."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

As early as 1826 an important pro-slavery writer named Edward Brown argued that "Slavery," he said, quote: "Had ever been the stepping ladder by which nations have passed from barbarism to civilization."

早在1826年,一位重要的亲奴主义作家,爱德华·布朗说过,"奴隶制,曾是帮助那些国家从野蛮时期,发展到文明社会的阶梯"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Lew would replace Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, who is stepping down this month.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

And it's an interesting sight. Just remember--stepping back.

这是一个很有趣的画面，但我们要退后一步想。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That budget would end funding for the Constellation program, which would have returned U.S.astronauts to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

If it's going in a circle, you will say from now on, that it, indeed, has an acceleration, even though no one's stepping on the accelerator, of amount v^2 over R.

如果它在一个圆周上运动,你会说从现在起它其实有加速度,即使没有人去踩油门,加速度大小为 v^2 / R

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In a meeting with local officials, Mr.Medvedev called for stepping up the war on terror.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

However,since stepping into office last January, Mr.Obama's agenda has been overwhelmed by the issue of health care reform, the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"I think the really dangerous affect of this is you have agency officers stepping back from the kinds of things that the nation expects them to do,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

In the last couple of months, the PKK - Turkish Kurds fighting for greater cultural and political rights since 1984 - have been steadily stepping up their attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Pachauri has ruled out stepping down as head of the U.N.panel.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

"Students are stepping up and leading in unprecedented ways and for every obstacle you can come up with there is a student group really confronting that obstacle in ways that can be adapted to other settings,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Soldiers had seized the building a few hours before. Mr.Ravalomana announced Tuesday he was stepping down due to the crisis characterized by what he called a polarization of opinion within the army and the citizenry.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

"This will serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready, to improve itself, to look at the organization, to look at the quality of the facilities,and therefore I hope this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The winner of the presidential election will replace President Valdas Adamkus who is stepping down in July after completing a second and final five-year term Analysts say Lithuania's main political parties and politicians are widely disliked because of the current economic downturn, and their reputations have been overshadowed by corruption allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17