Root beer can be made with the materials that are readily available in America.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

That such attacks on the greatest achievements of the west should be made by Western intellectuals is perfectly in keeping with the Western tradition.

这些对于西方灿烂文明的抨击,应该是来自西方学者们的,这与西方的传统相一致

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

but the people who suffered most from the damage in the lowland areas in the city who happen to be people in color have nothing to do with the decisions made on these wetlands.

但在这场灾难中,生活在城市低地处的人们,遭受了最为严重的损失,而这群人又恰好是,对湿地有关决策,无从置喙的有色人种。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

It read: "This is to inform you that an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with food only.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

We shouldn't, just because there are biases and mistakes that potentially can be made, it doesn't mean we need to throw out the baby with the bath water and stop studying ourselves.

我们不应该，只是因为会有潜在的偏颇和错误，这并不意味着我们要因噎废食,停止探究自己。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Before Wednesday's meeting, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said another decision to be made is how to deal with insurgents in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Gadhafi likes to defy the international order in general, although he has made his peace with it, but he always likes to be the maverick."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Okay. So that's the basic distinction and, as I say, as far as I can see it's irreconcilable so it leaves us with a choice that really does have to be made, and it's a choice which looms over a course in literary theory and coming to understand the tradition of literary theory.

这就是二者基本的不同之处，我以前说过，只要二者不能兼容,我们就不得不从中选择一个，这个选择将会一直出现在文学理论课,和理解文学理论传统的过程中。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Many liberal Democratic voters have become disillusioned with the compromises made in Congress, and they will be sorely disappointed if the health care effort fails.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

And if you've typed in l when you should've 1 typed a 1, or a 1 when you should've typed an l, you're likely to miss it. If you've made a mistake with upper and lower case. Things like that. So just be very careful looking at that.

如果你本来想打，1，的时候,却输成了，l，或者打，l，的时候输成了，你很可能注意不到这个错误,如果你把大小写弄混了也是一样,要注意这个错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But they claimed to be something different, so we made a treaty with them.

VOA: standard.other

Civil society groups made the call Friday for consultations with regional governments so more social and economic issues can be addressed when ASEAN leaders meet in Thailand later this month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"And so he then went back and worked on technology adaptation and designed very low-cost, small affordable solar panels with fitted bulbs, maybe one or two bulbs per household, made sure that the bulbs could be moved from room to room, depending where people wanted the light,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18