"There was de Coubertin who started the whole thing, there was Avery Brundage who saved it during the cold war era, and Samaranch who got it, if you like,from the 19th century into the 21st century."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The organization's local leader, Andriy Ben, rejects broad Soviet-era accusations that western Ukrainians were all Nazi war collaborators.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

The action scenes are reminiscent of Cold War-era spy movies with classic fistfights and kicks, thrilling and unpretentious.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

He too reflected on years of U.S.-Saudi strategic ties going back to the World War II era.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Businesses have been cutting jobs amid the longest recession in the post World War II era.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

Titled La Rafle,or The Roundup, the film takes a look at one of the darkest moments of France's World War II- era collaboration with Nazi Germany: the July,1942 arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10