Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

You would have made your phalanx as deep as you could, and once you had the width established. Yeah?

一旦你确定了方阵的宽度,你会将你的方阵布置得尽可能深,请讲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Later,Alfred Wegener said the continents had once been part of a huge area of land he called Pangaea.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Yeats once said that he wanted the natural words in the natural order, but he had a very highly cultured sense of what is natural, and his poetry is full of verbal archaism.

叶芝曾说他想让自然的话语,用自然的方式呈现，但对于,自然的定义他又将其高度文化化，他的诗歌有很多口语的古语表达。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Her MySpace page says her doctor once told her she had the larynx of a "very young adolescent."

VOA: special.2009.01.30

It's just the sheer--it's amazing, it's an amazing read too. And then, Marc Bloch; I once had the pleasure when I was giving a talk at the University of Strasbourg and sitting in Marc Bloch's office.

那真的是--真的特别棒,也是本好书,还有马克·布洛克,我曾经有幸在斯特拉斯堡大学演讲时,坐在马克·布洛克的办公室里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles once again had the highest number of foreign students.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He says many,if not all, of the top American colleges once had a core curriculum a set of courses required for all students.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Notice that once we've deleted the dominated strategies, you know I had said before about four people chose this strategy, and in here, about four people chose this strategy, but in this range 30 through 45, I had lots of people.

注意,一旦我们剔除了劣势策略,我们已知有四人选择了,在45到67之间的数,但是选择30到45的有不少

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Only once did he look up. He had just written the sentence: "The arms,artillery and public property will be given over to the Union army."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

At the far end of the hall he went into the bedroom he had once shared with his twin brothers, which now, in 1955, was his alone, but he stayed in his room for not more than two minutes. When he came out, he had on the same sweaty shirt.

在走廊的尽头，他走进卧室,他曾和他哥哥一起住在这间卧室，现在，1995年的时候，他自己住了，但是他在里面待了,不到2分钟，走出来的时候，他的衬衫湿透了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So once we had the children, Valentine's Day,I think, became more about them.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

And, so, people would come down and they'd have their pictures taken with a picture, as if it was part of the true cross of the crashed Vendome column; because for once they had won, for once they had won.

所以,人们会来这里,和那张画合影留念,仿佛这是,旺道姆广场的纪念柱的墓碑,因为他们曾经胜利过,他们曾经胜利过

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Once the real flight began, the pilot had to remember everything he learned.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But it never broke. Once again, Lee had stopped the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

She once had a relationship with the famous American millionaire Howard Hughes.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Once they reached the farm house, they had to stay in hiding.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

They had waited once in a spacecraft that never left the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Once again, he had forced back the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

He referred to criticisms once directed at the pop star for what some had called erratic behavior.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

I am not saying that Bernanke had not done a good job once the crisis was created.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

And in making the announcement, President Obama said once again the American drive for a missile shield has never had anything to do with Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

"Himmler once declared that the Nazis had to kill all the Jews because, if not - quote - their grandchildren will ask for their property back.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

but for Shrek, the ordinary life of taking out the trash, cooking dinners and changing diapers soon has him longing for the adventures he once had.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

President Umaru Yar'Adua had ordered troops to crush the movement "once for all."

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

"Because especially when it was being said that Michael was trying to make a comeback, and people had hoped that he would live and come back once again and hit the musical scene."

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

We had to say 'well,that is great. If you can get here that is fine, but we are shooting in Adelaide.' So once they jumped in, the film went to a new level and the fact that we had their support was huge."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15