"we have said that this is a dual track effort there has been an engagement track which we have been very actively engaged in, but there is also a pressure track,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There has also been an increase in water used for industry.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

I don't know if any of you watched tennis recently, but the U.S. Open has been shown and there's an Oreo advertisement with the William sisters and so you--that's why people know about these foods.

不知道你们最近看没看网球赛,美国网球公开赛上有一则奥利奥广告,是由威廉姆斯姐妹做代言的,人们以这种方式听说这类食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Watkins says there also has been an increase in the number and gravity of attacks against international aid organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

We'll get an expression in which there is no t; t has been banished in favor of v.

我们现在得到了一个不含t的表达式,t被v替换掉了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But there has been a wave of religious demonstrations since a parking lot opened on the Sabbath near an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood several months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Although there is no firm timetable for an APEC free trade agreement, Chelliah says there has been substantial progress on liberalizing trade among some members.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address Saturday despite the new administration's slogan of change, there has been no sign of genuine change in what he termed hostile U.S.policies toward Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

If we don't address the challenges of climate change an increasing number of nations and their peoples will be pushed into poverty never has there been a greater call for global solidarity,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01