The demonstrators were kept away from the summit site by thousands of police, troops,helicopters, boats,tall fences and occasionally,tear gas.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

They drown out Orpheus' music with the hideous roar of their howlings and their screamings and they tear him limb from limb.

她们用可怕的咆哮和尖叫淹没了,俄耳甫斯的音乐，并将他肢解。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I need you tear not the page out; I need you to tear this phone book in half in front of 500 of your peers.

我不是要你仅仅撕下来那一页;,我要你当着500位同学的面,把整个电话薄撕成两半。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

People have not had a lot of money to tear down the old homes and build new ones.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

So, if you only get a sniff of the tear gas in Barth, here you get a whole draught full of it.

如果你在Barth问到了一点催泪瓦斯的气息，那么你在这将感受到满是它的气味。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Security forces fired tear gas to break up the pro-Zelaya marchers, who are also accused of vandalizing buildings in the country's capital overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

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

In other parts of Bangkok, soldiers fired tear gas and protesters hurled firebombs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13