"We will use the tremendous capabilities of this ion propulsion system to climb out of orbit around Vesta, travel for almost another three years through the asteroid belt to dwarf planet Ceres and then go into orbit around Ceres and undertake the same kind of measurements there that we'll be doing at Vesta.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

system is the opposite of the open system, no mass and no energy can flow through the boundary.

孤立系与开系正相反，没有质量或能量,能流过它的边界。

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"We are tremendously saddened to have to cancel the tickets of folks who probably went through the lottery system to get those tickets."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"I think they've probably done as good, if not better job, of that than almost anybody and explored the possibility of some of the Yemeni detainees coming through that system,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

"The scheme to radically change the sources and the cost of American energy, through a system known as 'cap and trade' may be well intentioned, but it will cost us dearly in jobs and income, and it stands no chance of achieving its objective of a cooler earth,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.30