Modern instruments show that about ninety percent of all earthquakes take place along a few lines in several places around the Earth.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The causal paths that result in death may start different, but I presume that they converge and you end up having a set of events take place.

不同的手段导致死亡的方式不同,但是我认为有一点是相同的,你的死亡伴随着这一系列的事情发生

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

or a lot of times you just know someone who's leaving and you take their place.

或者你知道有人要搬走，你可以住他们的地方。

找房子的方法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A total of sixty-four matches will take place in ten stadiums around the country.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

where you can take one of them, put it back in a different place,

你可以从中租一辆用，然后把它放回到不同的位置，

伦敦的蓝色自行车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In this story,a trial takes place to decide if the moneylender Shylock can take a pound of flesh from a borrower who fails to repay his loan.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

Jeffrey Olson says experts do not know what will take the place of the plants and animals that are lost, or how wildlife will survive in a changed environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The president will visit Japan, China,South Korea and Singapore, where a summit of 21 Asia-Pacific economies will take place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

South Korea and the United States have announced they will conduct a joint anti-submarine exercise, widely expected to take place within a matter of weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

At the site where the commemoration was to take place a funeral service was held with people, some of them crying, saying prayers for those who died.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Sure. Why not? A few of us were leaving.You could take their place.

VOA: standard.other

"Nothing can really take the place of putting it all together in a simulated, real world situation as preparation for what our final mission would be to actually respond in a real crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Mr.Obama's June 4 speech in the Egyptian capital will take place as part of a trip that will include visits to Germany and France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09