Top government officials, led by Vice President Joe Biden, will work on policies to help the middle class.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Yeah, strings, violins, violins, but not the top part of the violin family, kind of second violin, middle range of the strings here.

是,弦乐,小提琴,但不是小提琴组的最高音,像是第二类小提琴声,弦乐的中部音域

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Basically, what the libertarians are objecting to in this case is the middle 80 percent deciding what the top ten percent are doing for the bottom ten percent.

基本上，在这个例子中，自由主义者所反对的是,由中间80%的人来决定,上层的10%，应该为底层的10%做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It is narrow in the middle. On top is a large ring-like structure.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

I've given you the periods at the top of the chart: early Bronze Age; middle Bronze Age from about 2100 to 1550; we date the late Bronze age from about 1550 until 1200--the introduction of iron and the beginning of the Iron Age in 1200. Prior to that, the Bronze Age, which is divided into these three periods.

我在这个表格的顶端给你们列了一些时期：,早期青铜时代；中期青铜时代，从约公元前2100年到前1550年；,晚期青铜时代，从公元前1550年到前1200年，即铁器时代前页；,然后公元前1200年开始了铁器时代，在那以前，青铜时代分为那样三个时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The settlement issue will top the agenda when U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrives here this weekend for separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

He still carries a reminder of that day: a fat scar that runs from the middle of his neck to the top of his cheek, where the machete of a militiaman almost severed his head.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07