The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

With that, you have two teams obviously the offense and defense which switches with every play.

你可以看到两支队伍，很明显的在每场比赛中转换着进攻和防守。

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So, I actually paused for a moment to take some photographs after this particular experience because after walking this woman who happened to be, I mean she was at least 70 plus years old I would say, no offense if she's watching this on the Internet now and I got that wrong, but at least 70 years old.

所以，通过这个特殊的经历后,我停下来一会儿，拍了一些照片，因为这种事发生在,这位老太太身上,我的意思是她至少有70多岁了，我想说，如果她在网上看看这个，就不会犯错了,但是我错了，她至少70多岁了。

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However,lawyers point out that this was the maximum sentence the local court could have handed out for the offense for which the men were tried.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

In the NBA, Manute Bol averaged less than three points a game on offense.

VOA: special.2010.07.05