Huge herds of cattle were brought there from western states to be transported by railroad to markets in the eastern United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Western countries, and especially the United States say, "We have a big pharmaceutical industry that develops new drugs.

西方国家，尤其是美国宣称，我们拥有研发新药品的大制药业。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Home prices in western states have fallen a long way and have continued to fall.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He creates committees of advisors that, in many ways, are not that different than the kinds of ministries that would evolve in western absolute rulers-- absolute states, and in non-absolute states as well.

彼得大帝建立了顾问委员会,在很多方面,这都和西方绝对统治者的内阁相差无几,无论是绝对主义国家还是非绝对主义国家

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Grange supporters won control of state legislatures in a number of middle western states.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

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

After the election in Illinois, Lincoln made several speaking trips in the western states.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

But western states had the highest rate as a group,almost ten percent.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Some people say Paul Bunyan was the creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes area of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Still,murder rates in the United States have generally been among the highest among Western democracies since the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And his stories about life in the western United States became the book called "Roughing It."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

That was when mines in the western United States began to produce large amounts of silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

NATO first brought together the countries of Western Europe with Canada and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

These areas include the Alps in Italy and Switzerland, the coastal mountains of western Canada, and the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The plan succeeded. Some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned the right of the United States to act as policeman for the Western Hemisphere.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Another issue during Hayes's administration involved a railroad in the western United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

As western areas became populated, they became official territories, and then new states.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

They gained control of party organizations in several western and southern states.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

In eighteen eighty-nine and eighteen ninety, six western territories became states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

The long-range rocket Pyongyang intends to launch is theoretically capable of delivering a warhead as far as the western United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The offensive came after the United States and other western allies criticized the Pakistani military for failing to rein in the extremists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11