This week in our series, Larry West and Maurice Joyce tell about the conflict between the United States and Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

That a free laborer is a mobile laborer, especially in a society like the United States that had this thing called The West, the limitless apparently to them anyway--boundless West.

自由劳动者是流动的,尤其处在美国这样的社会,有他们所说的广袤的西部,特别对他们来说,无边际的西部

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But actually, like in the United States, the West Coast weather is a lot better for your hair than the East Coast.

但实际上，在美国，西海岸的天气比东海岸对头发好很多。

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It also found improvements in the northeastern United States and the California Current that flows south along the West Coast.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In another study, some brown pelicans on the west coast of the United States have been acting mysteriously.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He would join the army. He wanted to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point,New York.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In eighteen ninety-two they were visiting in the United States when Pearl was born in Hillsboro,West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.11.14

Maria Gunnoe of the Appalachian area of West Virginia in the United States won from North America.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One example of this is found in California, on the West Coast of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

He would join the army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York as the best student in his class.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The United States Military Academy at West Point,New York, prepares officers for the Army.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

With peace came a new United States policy toward other Indians of the West.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

And he spoke at the United States Military Academy at West Point,New York.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

The United States began to expand west during the middle eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Another is about the United States Military Academy at West Point.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

West Bank settler David Ben Moshe says the United States is appeasing the Palestinians while ignoring Israel's biblical claims to the land.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

They cannot talk about the other side. Always,the other side in Iran is pictured as the agent of the West and of the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The United States is pushing Israel to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an issue that has soured relations between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The United States has demanded a complete freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem, and Israel's refusal has strained ties between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Amunugama,who is also the deputy finance minister, says the United States and the West have been supplanted as the primary aid donors by India, China,Japan,Iran and Arab countries, including Libya.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The Palestinian divisions pose a major obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which is the stated goal of the peace process sponsored by the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"Let us settle it, expand and love our homeland." Mr.Netanyahu reluctantly imposed a partial freeze on West Bank construction under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

It is not an easy task,she said. "This is going to be a very hard act for him to pursue, particularly when there is very, very deep hostility to the United States and to the West more generally in Pakistan."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01