"Then jump off the roof, Maggie,jump off it. Now cats jump off roofs and they land uninjured.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

But it would be reckless, it seems to me, to just put them aside and not ask yourself the question, "Can there be something believable at the roof of this?"

但是我认为如果将其置之不理,是很草率的,你们应该扪心自问,"这些神话故事是否有历史研究价值呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There're five balconies, and the roof is made of gold.

那里有五个包厢，房顶是金子做的。

纽约的音乐厅 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The twenty-two men rested until dark, listening to rain hit the roof of the farm house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This sculpture is on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

腰肢的猛一颤动,残破的墙垣，燃烧的屋顶和塔巅,阿伽门农死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is placed on top of the flagpole on the roof of One Times Square.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

It's contagious, that is, it's transferred to other persons or objects, depending on how receptive they are--perhaps by physical touch, perhaps in the case of severe impurity by sharing an enclosed space, by being together under an overhanging roof, tent.

它会传染给另一个人，另一个物体，这取决于它们的接受度，也许是通过肢体接触，也许是因为呆在一个与世隔绝的空间里，同在一个屋檐下。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Her eyes flew open. She could hear the steady rainfall on the roof top.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But it was planted in containers on the roof of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

So they just have kind of all these different amazing things about the world, all under one roof.

那一个地方就拥有世界上各种各样令人惊奇的东西。

关于旧金山的博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They can walk under and around the sculpture on the Roof Garden.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The one with the pointy roof, which I can't see, is Canary Wharf itself.

那个有尖头屋顶的，现在我看不见，是金丝雀码头本身。

现代化的地方 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Water streams down the windows on the roof over every dog's room.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

But of course, during the summer, 'cause it's, there's no roof on it, so

但是当然，因为它没有房顶，所以在夏天

莎士比亚环球剧院 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But it's not on their housetop, or even outside. The Roof,as locals call it, is the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

And whew! She's flying off the roof with anger, chasing him around the house trying to whip him with a wet towel, so on and so forth: a very dramatic scene again of powerlessness within the family, of being the victim of violence within the family.

噢！在房子里，祖母气急败坏地用湿毛巾追着打他，一会窜这儿，一会窜那儿：,这是理查在家里无能为力，再次成为家庭暴力受害者的又一典型案例。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Roof Ballroom hung on for 30 years before the owners gave up and shut the doors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The plastic tarp that serves as the roof of her house fills with water when it rains.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"It's just corrugated metal from the roof and a few chimneys, and that's all that was left of our place when we went in,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

About a 150 people came - so many that some are sleeping on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

So the Roof is busy again with wedding receptions and the like.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Tiny tables surrounded the Roof's huge parquet wooden floor.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Now,theoretically, only the speakers and deputy speakers of the two houses of parliament may use the lights officially, but there are still dozens of cars on the Moscow roads that continue to exploit the advantages of a blue light on the roof.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

And on six Sunday nights a year, ballroom dancers from as far away as St.Louis - two states away in Missouri - once again head to downtown Indianapolis to swing to the music of big bands and rekindle memories of long-ago dances and romances at the Roof.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

They had plenty of food and a good roof over their heads and the river ran close to their door.

VOA: special.2009.02.28