Our idea was to explore the Rocky Mountains and west coast, perhaps go north into Canada and end up at North Western University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

I grew up in Los Angeles actually, West Wood.

实际上，我是在洛杉矶西木区长大的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

because when I was growing up here, I lived down on the Upper West Side,

因为我在上西区以南长大，

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"that are against this move-are asking is this, 'How do we know that the Americans and the West are basically going to let the Russians live up to their promise of giving the uranium back?

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

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Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up - like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18