In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Before we get to that, I should say that the Greeks have already, before this period of the polis and the period of colonization which is connected with the rise of the polis, centuries before that the greeks had already spread out from their original settlements.

在我们深究此前,我得先说,在城邦时期和殖民地时期之前,即跟城邦兴起的两个关联时期,希腊人已在数百年前,从最初的家园往外移民

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

UNESCO requires that World Heritage Sites maintain their original character, but Qadisha is changing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Like Wyoming, its neighbor to the north, Colorado has its own facility devoted to restoring dinosaurs to their original form, the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

So both sides have gone well below the original START-One ceilings for their nuclear forces."

VOA: standard.2009.12.07