The foot-operated pumps are sold for a hundred dollars -- a lot of money for an African subsistence farmer.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

the Israelites who are encamped at the foot of the mountain grow restless, and rebellious, and they demand of Aaron a god, because they don't know what's become of "this fellow Moses."

在山脚驻扎的犹太人渐渐焦躁不安，开始反叛，他们向亚伦索要神像，因为他们不知道摩西遭遇了什么事情“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He comes down from the mountain, he approaches the camp, he's stunned by what he sees. He's carrying the tablets, the instructions, and then he smashes them at the foot of the mountain in fury.

从山上走下来，接近营地，因眼前看到的景象，感到震惊，他拿着法板，然后他狂怒的把法板砸在了山脚下。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"So KickStart went forward to design a range of agricultural technologies, the most significant of which has been the foot-powered treadle pump."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But the standard origin for everybody is the foot of the building.

不过标准的原点就是地面

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

My son,when he was in Seconde, which is the first year of French high school, they were out blocking traffic until some angry driver rolled over the foot of a protestor and then everybody kind of went off and ate pizza.

我的儿子,他高一,也就是法国高中的第一年,他们堵住交通,直到一个愤怒的司机压过一个抗议者的脚,他们才散开回去吃披萨

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

An honorary guard looked on as officials placed wreaths at the foot of the monument to the defenders of Westerplatte at 4:45 am local time, the exact time that the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began shelling this tiny Polish military outpost.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

As long as it was not abrupt, right? I may take my scissors, and cut out a foot in the middle.

这个过程并不是突然的，对吗？，我拿出一把剪刀，这时减掉中间的一英尺。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Finally,because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

The programme got off very much on the wrong foot with the lineation programme the German were given responsibility.

但这项计划从一开始就错了,德国人负责此项项目。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

So you're tapping your foot. You're tapping the beat and a lot of the music is coming off the beat.

你用脚打拍子,你在跟着节奏打拍子,很多乐音都不在正拍上

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

At two hours fifty-six Greenwich Mean Time on July twentieth,nineteen sixty-nine, Neil Armstrong put his foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

I wanted to go back and leer at my strange Dickensian mother in the hash joint. I tingled all over from head to foot.

这时的我已经有些神志不清，真想回去看看,小饭馆里奇怪的幽灵一般的母亲。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

An untreated or incorrectly treated bite might require the removal of a bitten foot, for example,or an arm.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

A gig is 10 to the 9, so it does two operations in the length of time it takes light to get from one foot off the table down to the table. That's amazing.

因此光行进一英尺的,时间内电脑可以,进行两次基本运算,这太神奇了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Churchill stands with one foot on British land at the embassy and the other foot in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

It's a little easier to hit the ball hard to the opposite side from the side which is your foot and that's the same principle in baseball.

从另一侧击球更容易发力,在棒球中这个道理也是适用的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Here, the foot of the building is what I call the origin.

比如地面,这里我以地面为原点

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The researchers say the grass might have been used to keep the wearer's foot warm.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

The image we get there is that the Israelites are working their way through the marsh on foot, and the Egyptians' chariot wheels can't make it through the marsh.

我们所得到的印象是，犹太人徒步走过沼泽,而埃及人因为坐在马车上,所以无法穿过沼泽。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The sign is formed by a line across the right foot of the letter "R."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Now I didn't use--no hands-- that was just the notes that are naturally on the twelve and a half-foot length of vibrating air.

我没有用手控制,都是十二个半英尺高的震动空气柱,自然产生的音符

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The speaker might say: "I really put my foot in my mouth this time."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Sometimes they give you the speed in miles per hour, kilometers per year, pounds per square foot.

有时候速度的单位是英里/小时,千米/年,英磅/平方米

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Then it lands on your foot, because assuming the cannon is at zero height, the cannonball certainly comes out towards the enemy, but has no time of flight.

然后它就会落在你的脚边,因为假设大炮的高度为 0,炮弹笔直地出膛打向敌人,却没有时间飞行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选