It's up to us; the ball is in our court." And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, with reporting by Lonny Shavelson.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

he throws the ball and then the receiver or someone else can catch it and then they run with it.

他扔球，然后接球的或者其他人可以抓住球，带着球跑。

美式足球 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

and you've got to hit a ball which is on the ground with a sort of croquet mallets.

你要用一个类似木槌的东西去打击地上的球。

知道马球吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The ball was made of iron and wood and it was lit with one hundred lights.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"I don't really do a whole lot. I normally just spend time with family, go out to eat,hang out, wait for the ball to drop on TV."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

She would often swim and play ball with the children.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Then he would fall down on the floor again like a ball of dirt and start rubbing the side of his head with his back foot as if he had no idea he had been doing any more than any frog might do.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Ball says adults should start off with exercises at the base of the pyramid, like walking or climbing stairs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Yang Moo-jin, a scholar with the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, says the North is "playing hard ball".

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Ghanaian forward Dominic Adiyiah was rewarded with the golden ball as the tournament's best player.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

An eyewitness who owns a shop inside the market also told reporters that he heard a loud explosion, with a ball of fire and clouds of smoke in its aftermath.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

"Friends,I interrupt the ball game, and I come to you with a heavy heart to make the announcement that at 6:45 p.m.tonight, Coach John Wooden passed away at Ronald Reagan UCLA hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05