In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Let's say Pavarotti at the end of his life couldn't hold notes as long as he could when he was recording in nineteen seventy-eight.

比方说，在帕瓦罗蒂的晚年，他不能像在1978年那样,拖很长的音的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

That's the focus of our attention in Genesis, and it's only at the end of the story that the tree of life appears again in the passage that is emphasizing its permanent inaccessibility.

这点，是我们读《创世纪》时，应该特别注意的一点,直到故事的结束，生命树才又出现,是为了强调人类，永远无法接近它。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"When those products are at the end of their useful life, how are they going to be broken down?

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Remember the letter ? that Plato wrote near the end of his life, when he compares the democracy to a golden age, at least in comparison to what went after.

记得柏拉图,在临死前所写的书信吗，当他把民主与黄金时期相比时，至少是与那之后的时期相比时。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Jennifer Bemisderfer says this involves thinking about a product's whole lifetime: "When those products are at the end of their useful life, how are they going to be broken down?

VOA: special.2010.01.26

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"Yet,at the end of her life, in an incredibly telling gesture, in a funeral that she scripted before her death, she picked six of the family's workmen,laborers, gardeners and stable hands to be her pallbearers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Swan says his early mentors instilled in him a simple environmental ethic that has guided him through life: "That was that at the end of our expeditions, we would always leave wherever we went,clean and tidy, take away our garbage, take away everything, just leave our footsteps."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10