He has been flying for more than half his life and was unusually well prepared for the events that day in New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The role of Paris in French life is unique and that has been accentuated over the centuries, particularly the last century and a half, by some of the things that I want to talk about.

巴黎在法国人的生活中的地位是独特的,过去几百年中,这种状况引人瞩目,尤其在近一百五十年里,我想讲的正是关于这方面的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

But more than half the votes arrived before his private life hit the news.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

People often assume that Chopin was French - he spent half his life in France and is buried there in the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04