During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.
VOA: special.2009.07.13
The mountains, the magnificent Rockies that you can see to the west from any part of town, were papier-mache.
山脉,壮丽的落基山脉,你能从城里的任何位置,向西就能看见,是纸型的。
You have those shower moments or you're walking at midnights in some town in New York City and you've got this amazing brand-new ideas.
你在洗澡的时候,或是你在午夜的纽约城里的小镇,漫步的时候,你会得到很新奇的点子。
It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.
VOA: special.2010.06.14
So, defeated political groups might well -or individuals who were the heads of those groups might decide they have to get out of town.
所以,政治上失利的一方,或者这方的领导人,会做出决定,离开城市
In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.
VOA: special.2010.03.08
Unfortunately, it didn't work very well because people started bickering in his town and the New Harmony became kind of a joke-- it was not a harmonious community.
但不幸的是,这座村落发展得并不顺利,矛盾争执丛生,新和谐村成了笑谈-,因为已经无谓和谐了。
In eighteen ninety-two, workers at a Carnegie Steel mill in the nearby town of Homestead went on strike.
VOA: special.2009.07.13
In the case of Nimes, N-I-M-E-S, which was largely a Protestant town, they knocked down the wall so the Protestants of Nimes could not defend themselves against this all-conquering Catholic monarch.
以尼姆为例,那儿曾经是一座新教徒的城市,但统治者们拆毁了围墙,所以新教徒们再也无法对抗,所向无敌的天主教统治者了
By the end of eighteen eighty-one, the town of Tombstone had a population of more than five thousand.
VOA: special.2010.02.15
You can't stick your bad paper to the banker who knows everybody in the town; he'll figure it out and that's the -and so that's the problem that's solved by bankers.
你休想把垃圾债权随便卖给银行家,因为他对这个圈子了如指掌,他定会识破的,因此银行家们就解决了逆向选择问题
In eighteen eighty-six, he was elected the lawman or sheriff of Douglas,Arizona, the town near his ranch.
VOA: special.2010.03.17
There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.
在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的
This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.
VOA: special.2009.12.27
When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.
当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了
She sang in one of the most important concert theaters in the city - Town Hall.
VOA: special.2009.01.18
Germany was very effective in these-- they had advanced bureaucracy, a good postal service, and they had a network of post offices all over the country-- every little town had a post office.
德国人处理此事非常有效-,他们推进了行政机制和邮政服务,出现了全国范围的邮局网-,每个小镇都有一所邮局。
The pro-slavery majority quickly voted to move to a town close to the Missouri border.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
So what the guy would do is he would say okay you've got--if it was local money if it was from this town if it was New Haven money there were New Haven banks the guy would immediately know what it's worth.
所以,那个人将会做的是说,好的,你的钱-如果它是当地货币,如果来自这个城镇,如果是纽黑文的纸币,当时有纽黑文银行,那么这个人将立刻知道它值多少钱。
"My Kind of Town" was made popular by Frank Sinatra in nineteen sixty-four.
VOA: special.2011.07.17
Bridges protected by structures that look like barns represent historic small-town America.
VOA: special.2010.10.25
At the age of twenty-one, he was elected to the town council.
VOA: special.2010.01.21
He says the town was very different in eighteen fifty-nine.
VOA: special.2009.11.06
It has a name which is the first name of the husband or the wife or the town where they came from -- Lois,Tony's,Estelle's,or Maria's, or the Calaberian or the Belonia.
VOA: special.2010.08.28
My children call it at a one-horse town.
VOA: special.2009.07.12
The Yankees' cross-town rivals, the New York Mets, also opened a new ballpark in 2009, the $900 million Citi Field.
VOA: standard.2009.12.24
Fifteen dead in a gun battle in Taxco. Fifty-five more at an abandoned silver mine near that same tourist town.
VOA: standard.2010.07.02
Karen communities also reported a build up of both military and pro-government militia forces near the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
VOA: standard.2010.07.27
He comes from an upper-middle class family. Neighbors in this town of 5,000 are saddened by the news.
VOA: standard.2010.05.06
A suicide car-bombing,earlier, killed five policeman and several civilians near an Iraqi police station in the town of Shirqat, close to Tikrit.
VOA: standard.2009.08.29
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