If it started blowing the other way, they would never reach land.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Another thing that happened-- ... they started developing-- it's not invented in the nineteenth century, but they started doing standardized forms.

当时还发生了一件事-,人们开始发展-,这不是19世纪发明的，不过他们开始制作标准化格式。

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but people came and they, you know, started making a fuss about it. So it's back to the regular time.

但纽约市民不满意这个决定，纷纷跑来闹事。所以，公园的开放时间又恢复到从前了。

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"I've always loved working with the robots. And when I first started it was a challenge working with the robots, understanding how they worked and figuring them out.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Here's a, actually here it did take 25 years, but they did, they did eventually step on before we started drinking 7-Up.

这个过程，这个过程真的花了二十五年的时间，但是他们做到了，他们在我们喝七喜之前制止了加锂的行为。

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They took positions above the armory and started shooting at it.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

It used to be a big, broad sheet and they made it smaller in 2005 and they started--they keep cutting out data.

曾经是很宽大的报纸,在2005年被缩小了,并且开始不断减少数据

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"The pipes started rattling, and it sounded like they were going to come through the wall,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

And even if over a period of time the average amount of their regard is lower because they started lower and then got higher than someone who was always high, it's the ones who were first lower who then went up that capture our attention.

即使在一段时间内,他们对我们的评价依然不高,但是因为起点较低,只要是在日益改善，总比一开始就对我们评价好的人更有吸引力，正是开始低而慢慢增加的人,会引起我们的注意。

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So it started as self-defense, but I think some operators, they realized very quickly that with piracy you can earn much more money than you can as a descent fisherman.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

But they kept that village just the way it was, and they built one next to it. In about 1952 some people, about your age, started to party, and somebody came out with a gun and said we don't party in Oradour-sur-Glane.

他们就是保留了当时的原貌,在旁边建新的村子,在1952年有人,大概你们这么大的孩子,开始在那聚会,然后有人拿着枪出来说在尔村,不能聚会

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He says that is why the people started this protest, no one told them to do so, they did it themselves, and they took power without help of the political opposition.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Now, if I was a person that was designing a vaccine and I noticed that this was the response that it got, that antibodies were produced, they reached some intermediate level, they started to fall, I would say, "Well I haven't stimulated the immune system enough, let me re-boost, let me give another dose of antigen."

现在,如果我正在研究一种疫苗,我注意到机体会对这种疫苗产生应答,也就是会产生抗体,当抗体浓度达到中等水平后,就开始下降,就可以说,疫苗对免疫系统刺激还不足,我需要提高抗原浓度,让我再把剂量再加大一倍

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And then as they become toddlers as they started crawling around, they get that lead dust on their hands from the windowsills in the floors, they put it in their mouth."

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

If they started looking like insurrection would happen, the Romans didn't do it.

如果叛乱要发生了，罗马人不会坐视不理。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

That limits us and it's very hard to get new ideas started, but they do get started; so, I think we'll get some really obvious advances.

这会限制我们，使我们很难有所创新，但这些人取得了突破;,所以，只有突破才能进步。

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I guess they didn't have our language, they didn't-- they were intuitively halfway there but they couldn't express it, so I think the industry didn't get really started.

我猜当时并没有专业的词汇,他们未能...,他们有想法,却无法表述,所以我认为那只是保险业的雏形

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For example, when they started trading stock index futures, both these agencies thought it was in their turf because it involved both stock indexes and futures Anyway, Paulson is proposing merging these.

例如，当人们开始交易股票指数期货的时候，这两个机构都认为这个交易是在他们的管辖范围内的,因为这个交易既包括了股票指数也包括了期货,总之，鲍尔森是准备合并他俩。

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In Renaissance Italy they started writing insurance policies-- I read one of the insurance policies, it's in the Journal of Risk and Insurance-- and they translate a Renaissance insurance policy and it's very hard to understand what this policy was saying.

在文艺复兴时期的意大利,人们开始编写保单,我看过其中一份,刊登在《风险和保险杂志》上,他们翻译了一份文艺复兴时期的保单,但是很难理解那份保单到底想说什么

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It turned out to be kind of wrong because in the 1880s they started building so many houses in response to the demand that there was eventually a crash; but somehow people got this idea at some time.

结果证明这错了,因为在19世纪80年代,为迎合需求,他们建造了很多房屋,结果却崩溃了,但不知为何,人们有时就是会突发奇想

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