Then a long wooden stick is used to slowly push a heavy cover down on the bags.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Expanded U.S.sanctions would cover petroleum, petroleum by-products, oil or liquefied natural gas, tankers,and products used to construct or maintain pipelines.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25