In the late 19th Century, Johnstown was the nation's mightiest steel center - more prosperous than Pittsburgh - turning out steel rails and barbed wire.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

And talk about-- "Yeah, it's the same" hunk, of medal, and wire, and robot, and plastic, this is the same hunk, the same body.

还有，同样的一个东西，可以是金属，电线，机器或者是塑料，只要是同样的东西，就是同一肉体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in the last 20 years or So, this has been a huge and vibrant area of study where people are trying to wire up machines that can do brain-like things from components that look a lot like neurons and are wired up together as neurons are.

在过去的二十多年里,这是一个非常活跃的研究领域,研究者们试图应用,外表和连结方式均与神经元相类似的元件,制造出具备大脑功能的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Black Satellites have battled through some adversity to reach the final, edging South Africa in extra time in the first elimination match, and surviving a pair of exciting 3-2 games that came down to the wire in the quarter and semifinals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15