Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona says that the Tamil Tigers are deliberately not allowing civilians to leave the war zone and are using them as a buffer against attacks by the military.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

And this looks a lot like the average valence electron energy where the lowest values of electronegativity are in the metallic zone and the highest values of electronegativity are on the nonmetallic zone.

这看起来像是平均电子能,最低的电负性在,金属区最高的电负性在,非电子区。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

A lot of people here think of Lebanon as the Middle East, as like a war zone.

许多人把黎巴嫩当成中东，就好像一个战区一样。

在黎巴嫩开派对 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Europe has to provide, the euro zone has to provide, a comprehensive solution to this problem.

VOA: special.2010.12.24

So, Freud believed there were five stages of personality development, and each is associated with a particular erogenous zone.

弗洛伊德认为人格发展,分为五个阶段，且每个阶段都与特定的动欲区有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At previous summits, the United States set forth an ambitious and still unattained goal: forging a vast, hemisphere-wide free-trade zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

and be like "Oh, well, I was in a war zone, and I fought for you."

就像“噢，我去了战区，我为你战斗。”

我要当女军人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Defense made stops when they had to and Drew did a good job getting his team in the end zone.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

to the... -Em... I'm not aware of any sort of...arguments with the say that it's a single economic zone.

成为。。。，-嗯。,我没听过有人反对,这样一个单一经济区的存在。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

However,the zone has run into a series of serious complications amid worsening relations between North and South.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

I really am just not a fan of the sort of zone-out model of lecture audition.

因为我不喜欢大家,在上课的时候走神。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Working in a field hospital outside of a nuclear,contaminated zone is a little different than working in a combat zone in Iraq or Afghanistan."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

they get surprised, I guess, because it's a war zone.

他们感到惊讶，因为是战区。

我要当女军人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He sees a connection between the flooding incident and North's conciliatory proposal on Kaesong zone wages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

U.N.Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes visited the conflict zone,Friday, during a three-day visit to Yemen, inspecting one of five refugee camps in the north of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara says the army is now less than a kilometer away from a safe zone, which was set up to protect civilians inside rebel-controlled territory.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

But Bangkok is looking and sounding increasingly like a war zone.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

For South Korean officials, his detention without visiting rights or legal counsel is a key concern, because it reflects upon the overall safety of several hundred corporate managers in the zone.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

At one point,there were as many as 300 people a day being deported through Juarez, which has gained a reputation as the most dangerous city in the world outside a war zone.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

She adds that is in line with previous years. South Korean companies employ nearly 40,000 North Koreans to produce basic manufactured goods at a special cooperative zone in the North Korean city of Kaesong.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Besson rejects criticism over the closure, saying the zone, known locally as "the jungle", was not a humanitarian camp but rather a hub for human traffickers and a place where people were exploited.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The authorities have declared large stretches of normally white-sand beaches along the popular surf region of the Sunshine Coast a disaster zone, as well as Moreton and Bribie islands, which are national parks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

U.N.officials say the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have ignored calls to release tens of thousands of civilians they are using as a "buffer" between them and the military in the combat zone.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

It says the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have lost many senior leaders and are now confined in a 20 square kilometer safety zone that has been designated by the government for civilians seeking sanctuary from the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

The government's outright rejection for a truce with Tamil Tiger rebels came a day after the European Union said the situation of civilians trapped in the war zone is dangerous and called for a cease-fire to allow humanitarian aid into the region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Since last year's inauguration of conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak who North Korea calls a "traitor" North Korea has restricted access to the zone, detained a South Korean executive for more than two months without trial, and cancelled all of the contracts governing rent and wages.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05