It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

I have no idea what's here at the moment so I'm just going to draw a question mark because that memory might have been used previously for some other purpose, but we know it's currently available to us so we have four bytes of memory.

我不知道在此刻这里是什么,所以我画一个问号，因为那块内存可能在之前,为其它的目的而使用过，但是我们知道它可以为我们所使用,这样我们就有4个字节的内存。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

2 3 Well, son of a gun, one, two, three, four, five, six, sulfur, We've got six. We've used all the electrons.

真见鬼，4，5，6，硫，共六个，我们已经用掉了所有的电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Okay, so there are two designations used for God. Yahweh, which is the sacred Tetragrammaton, it's written with four letters in Hebrew, they don't include vowels.

上帝有两个名字，耶和华，犹太人上帝的名字,在希伯来语由四个字母构成，希伯来语没有元音。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Tucker used more than four hundred fifty thousand Legos to make his version which is more than five meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

So what this means, if you used to have two children and now you have four, how do you provide for the extra two?

比如一家过去有两个孩子,现在多了两个,多了两张嘴,怎么办呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Women who used the gel more than eighty percent of the times when they had sex had fifty-four percent fewer HIV infections.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

As I'll explain later in class, in Florida there used to be many, many, many varieties of oranges and now there are about four and there are commercials reasons for this occurring.

稍后我会详细解释,在佛罗里达州曾经有很多种类的橙子,而现在那里大概仅剩四种,这一切的发生归咎于商业上的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The sixteen exhibits include a film recreation of the sit-in story as well as the four counter seats used by the first four protesters.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Word expert James Rogers found a similar saying used more than four hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

They had used almost four million cubic meters of concrete in the dam.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Another study involved more than four hundred college women who used tanning beds.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Sir Thomas More used the expression in fifteen thirty-four.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Gibbs said that Hugo Chavez has used his rhetoric in the past to incite anti-American sentiment - most notably four years ago at the last Summit of the Americas in Argentina.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20