Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

I just turned it on literally this morning to start playing and I'm on myself a couple of email lists, one of which had an email this morning saying, "Hey, has anyone tried this, it really kind of sucks."

今天早上我就碰到这样的情况了,我收到了两份邮件单，其中一份有一封邮件说，嗨，有人用过这个了吗，真是糟透了“

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Up until then they had been using the old stadium, which now has been turned into a park.

在那之前，他们一直使用旧体育馆；现在旧体育馆已经成为一个公园了。

布朗克斯的景点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The United States had conscription during the Vietnam war era, which fueled massive antiwar protests,but today has an all-volunteer armed force.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

What if every campus in America had what Princeton has which is an Interfaith Council?

如果美国的每一所大学都像普林斯顿大学,所设的跨信仰委员会将会怎样？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring North Korean nuclear sites, said it had been informed that its inspectors were being expelled.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

The rest of contemporary history, including all of the stormy events leading up to Milton's own beloved Puritan Revolution, in which Milton himself, of course, had participated -all of that has been at least at the literal level, at the explicit level, expunged from the poem.

接下来的当代历史，包括所有引领着弥尔顿所钟爱的清教徒革命的,暴风性事件，在那场革命中，弥尔顿本人也参与其中,-所有那些至少在文义层面，在独立于本诗之外可说清的层面，都是很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Presidential spokesman Faratullah Babar denied that the Geo TV channel, which has been critical of President Asif Zardari and the government crackdown, had been ordered off the air Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

We had Gopher and St. Louis, Missouri, has a school named Washington University, which was one of the first backbones for the Internet.

我们有Gopher查询系统，而且密苏里州的圣路易斯，有所华盛顿大学，它是网络的第一批支柱之一。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Uganda's President Museveni admitted that a displaced woman in Sudan, which has the largest displaced population in Africa, would get little comfort from knowing a document had been approved in faraway Kampala.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

or any freelance jobs that I've had in this city which has been nice.

我在这里做兼职工作的收入还是不错的。

生活费偏高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"President Zardari's troops are risking their lives courageously fighting extremists as we speak, a vital task which of course has had an impact on human beings and their local communities many of whom have been displaced as a result,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

So it is in fact the result of positive moves, which the Mexican government has taken to break the baneful influence that many of these cartels have had on many aspects of Mexican government and Mexican life,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26