They saw it as a chance to get more help for the lake's problems, and more national attention for the area.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

What psychologists don't really know is why the Lake Wobegon effect exists, and there are a couple of proposals.

但心理学家还不知道,为什么乌比冈效应会存在，目前有几个假设。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And the Lake Wobegon effect in psychology involves a systematic bias to see ourselves as better than average.

心理学上的乌比冈效应是说人都会,偏心地认为自己比一般人优秀。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She could see the lake. Some fog was coming up as the sky darkened on this Halloween night.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

Science can be hands-on, you might be down at the lake picking up algae and studying them or something, that would be hands-on.

科学研究也是要动手的,你可能会到湖底,收集水藻并研究它们,这就是动手操作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The vehicle is helping scientists to see for the first time huge areas underneath the lake that were otherwise impossible to explore.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.

他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水，然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Naples,Maine has a Fourth of July parade like no other and a fantastic fireworks display over the lake."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Anyway, the Black Sea is not a Greek lake, but there are Greek cities that are spotted along the coast.

不管怎样,黑海不是古希腊的湖泊,除了东海岸

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So in the nineteen seventies, the national media began calling the city The Mistake on the Lake.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He walked toward the lake. He did not want to fight, but the man must go.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

This has been called the "Lake Wobegon effect" based on Garrison Keillor's story about a place where all the children are above average.

这个就叫“乌比冈湖效应”,名字源于Garrison，Keillor的一个故事,故事里有个地方的小孩子比一般孩子都优秀。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The lake,near the city of Provo, is the largest natural body of freshwater in the state.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Carp were first put into the lake in the eighteen eighties as a food source.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The lake is 193 kilometers long and 19 kilometers at its widest.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The newest of the lake freighters is over three hundred meters long.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

More than a hundred people jumped into the lake and drowned.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Visitors at the lake also keep their eyes open for "Champ."

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The lake flows north from Whitehall, New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The lake water was too salty to use.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Ships used the lake for transporting goods.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Houseboats also contribute to the lake's pollution and the development authority says they should install small sewage systems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The lake rose, intensifying pressure against the dam.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The Soo Locks linked iron mines near Lake Superior with the cities of Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Nina struggles to perform the leading role in "Swan Lake" while dealing with a controlling mother, played by Barbara Hershey.

VOA: special.2011.02.21

And later still, during the War of 1812, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

For many Americans, summer is a time to put on swim wear and spend time at the sea or a lake.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

This week on our program, we tell you about Lake Champlain and the Finger Lakes in the northeastern United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.05