When sailors sighted a whale at sea, several whaleboats were lowered into the water from the much larger whaling ship.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

If everything is the same, you know, when you were a kid someone would say, which has a higher boiling point, a quart of water or a gallon of water?

如果每个东西都一样，当你是个还是一个孩子的时候，有人说，那个有更高的沸点，1夸脱水还是1加仑水？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When the flowers came, Paul put them in water and then he took a long,hot bath.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Everybody knows the water would continue in a straight line, suggesting that when you have experience that helps you out, but in absence of experience you're kind of lost.

所有人都知道水会继续沿直线喷出,这说明经验能够帮助你正确解决问题,但缺乏经验会使你感到困惑

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water when I go to a party and everyone but me is doing the latest dance.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"We put out some vegetables for Santa Claus and a glass of water, and then when we woke up there was a note from Santa Claus."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

And when we don't see the seed of greatness, when we don't water it and shed a light on it, it withers and dies, which is unfortunately the fate of most human potential.

如果我们看不见学生的潜能，不去栽培它，它就会枯萎而死，遗憾的是，大部分人类潜能都因此而被磨灭。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Imagine a swimmer in water over his head You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not have the ability to solve.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Adobe becomes a sticky mud when it is mixed with water.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

When you put a small seedling in, the roots are not deep enough to go into that water reservoir, so we need to bring the water up to the plant."

VOA: special.2011.06.14

"They're fine all day at school, they come home, they get a drink of water, and that's when they got sick.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The Okefenokee seems primeval. It was formed when waters from an ancient ocean receded and a mammoth sandbar blocked most of the water flow to the sea.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Both subjects are high priority for Seoul. Six South Koreans drowned last month when the North suddenly released water from a dam, flooding camping areas in the South.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

When you touch boiling water, for example,get a cut, or even exercise too much, a special receptor on the neuron is activated, sending a signal to the brain - that hurts!.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But in 2008 life changed for about 55 families in Penjaringan when the international aid organization Mercy Corps installed a separate tank and ran water lines to households able to pay the $20 start-up fee.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04