ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

If you're an oil rich country today, as long as that oil lasts, you got the world kind of at your knees.

如果你今天是富油国,并且能保持稳定的产油量,那整个世界都会匍匐在你的跟前

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The woman he loves,Daisy Buchanan, is part of the very rich world that Fitzgerald found so different.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

She showed the world that the mentally disabled could be useful citizens enjoying rich lives.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Mr.Donato says these areas are among the most carbon-rich forests in the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

"We're also seeing a clash between politics and special interests in rich countries contrasted very sharply with real impacts for people in the developing world,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The nation, a former Australian colony, has a rich culture, where more than 850 indigenous languages are spoken, more than 10 percent of the world's total languages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14