A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

That's an idea that struck people intuitively at various times in history, but they didn't know how to do these calculations.

在历史上,人们很多次,直觉地感知到了这一点,但是他们不知道怎么去计算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

and whenever I go back to the East Coast, I'm kind of struck with how there's...

每当我回到东海岸，我都会震惊于……

加州的天气 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

But his older brother, Joseph, went out to Mississippi and struck it rich in cotton.

但他的哥哥约瑟夫,去了密西西比并且依靠棉花种植致富

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

Remember, the Iliad starts because of a quarrel and the quarrel emerges from the fact that the Greeks are busily being killed by a terrible plague that has struck them. They say, "We got to find out what's happening?"

记住,《伊利亚特》,是从一场争论中开始的,一场肆虐的瘟疫夺走了无数希腊人的生命,希腊人大为震惊,他们说,"到底发生了什么"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the object that struck Jupiter in July is estimated to have been much smaller and harder to see than comet Shoemaker-Levy.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

I was just, I didn't get really star-struck, and I didn't get really, I came here to like take my time and take my time.

我只不过……并没有被纽约新鲜刺激的事物冲昏了头，并没有为之着迷，我在这儿一直都不紧不慢地做自己的事情。

介绍我的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It struck the Lady Elgin. But the Augusta's Captain D.M.Malott continued on to Chicago, failing to help victims on the passenger boat.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But a bullet fired very close to the policeman struck his chest.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Panico says five years after the tsunami struck, most communities are better equipped and better prepared to deal with disasters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Merrin Guest left Marysville to attend a party in Melbourne with her husband before the flames struck on that terrible Saturday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

For Fofana the balance has yet to be struck between freedom of expression and the right to reputation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Shelby noted that GM is just the latest private corporation to fall under government control since the financial crisis struck last year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

He said special deals were struck with some Democratic Senators to get them to support the bill.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Officials say a roadside bomb in Uruzgan province, apparently meant to target Afghan and foreign troops, struck two passenger cars Saturday killing 14 civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The two struck up a friendship during then-candidate Barack Obama's trip to the region last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Israeli war planes struck targets in Gaza on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The early morning missile strike in the tribal region known as North Waziristan is said to have struck a vehicle carrying local and foreign militants.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Mr.Fillon also struck back at critics in the media and within the Obama administration who say Europe needs to spend more on government economic stimulus.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The diseases have struck isolated communities that lie to the north of the capital,Port Moresby.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The earthquake struck late Tuesday reducing much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince to rubble.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

In the president's motorcade, a vehicle carrying photographers collided with an ambulance as it traveled to the event, and was struck by a falling tree limb as it returned.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

In the past oil and ecology have struck a delicate balance in Louisiana, but as the massive slick drifts closer to the coast that could be coming to an end.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

"The thing that struck me when we had our discussions in Malaysia 18 months ago, was how they were positioning themselves to become a financial services hub, particularly for Islamic finance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

In a brief statement to reporters after the summit, Mr.Obama did not spell out a specific strategy designed to secure agreement, but European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was upbeat that a deal could be struck.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03