The former president's policy on the right to attack possible threats came after the terrorist attacks in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

My stepfather was a former priest, one of the early black men ordained to the priesthood in the United States.

我的继父原先是一名牧师，是美国早期参与到,牧师事业中的黑人之一。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

My home country is Croatia. I was born in and raised in what used to be the former Yugoslavia,

我是克罗地亚人。我生长在从前的南斯拉夫。

第二外语，英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

To drink from this river would allow the fallen angels to forget their fallen state, to forget the fact of their fallen-ness from their more blissful former condition.

喝忘川之水让那些堕落天使,忘记他们的堕落的处境，忘记自己堕落这一现实,忘记自己是从幸福天堂堕落的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

We started to talk about ways to do the former.

我们之前已经开始谈论按照模板来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The famous former basketball player Michael Jordan is considered to be one of the best "slam dunkers" of all time.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

It has the potential under peace time conditons to be what former Minister of the Interior, of the Economy, excuese me, said that a self-supporting dignifies poor country.

在和平的环境下，还是有潜力,成为前内务大臣，不对，是经济部长，所说的，自给自足能让一个穷国家有尊严。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But Kurt Volker, former American ambassador to NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is not so sure what will happen.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

The reason the mafia thrives in countries where it's hard to write legal contracts-- let's say some new parts of the former Soviet Union or some parts of Africa the reason the mafia thrives in those environments, is that it substitutes for the law and enforces both legal and illegal contracts.

黑恶势力在那些,书面协议不受保护国家不断壮大,比如前苏联新成员国 或者非洲,为什么黑恶势力在这些地方发展壮大,因为这是法律强制力的补充,它维系所有合同,不管是不是合法的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That became our problem." William Deng heads a commission supervising the return of ninety thousand former fighters to civilian life.

VOA: special.2011.02.24

The former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, tried to maintain a friendly relationship with America.

英国前首相，托尼•布莱尔，曾努力维持与美国的友好关系。

英国的首相们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They promised to protect each other from the growing threat they saw from another former ally, the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

And Johnson was president. It was up to this little-known former tailor to make the decisions on reconstruction on rebuilding the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Wherever Grant went, former soldiers waited to shake the hand of the man who had led them to victory against the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

One of his former students,Jeffrey Schwarz, helped remake the basement to use for pottery-making classes for the community.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

The convention named former United States Senator Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Only by gaining political power could they punish the South and guarantee full political rights to former slaves.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The Democrats nominated Humphrey as their candidate to face the Republican candidate, former Vice President Richard Nixon.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He defended his decision to end the Constellation program that NASA began under former President George W.Bush.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

A former teaching assistant recently wrote to the New York Times about his experience with grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Former Nuyorican board member Bob Holman brought slam to the Caf from Chicago,Illinois, where it was born.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Twenty years ago, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development was created to help former communist countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

The channel was struggling to find television shows as popular as its former series, "The Sopranos."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

For several weeks,the former president has been traveling to many cities to talk about the book.

VOA: special.2010.10.15

Then,he permitted former officials of the confederacy to run for office in their states' new elections.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

These people were struggling to create a new life in the land of their former owners.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The agency gave food and clothing to former slaves who had no food, money,or jobs.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The former state lawmaker will now try to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

VOA: special.2010.06.12