A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It can be used as a publishing medium and something that you can interact with, instead of something that is a burden to receive.

它可以用作一个发行媒介,成为你可以与之互动的东西，而不再是一个负担。

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Again, a question the book asks is whether that ideal of justice can be used as a model for politics.

而本书所提问的是,理想的正义,是否能为政治起示范的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Lenovo demonstrated a product that can be used as two computing devices.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

They actually can be used in a court of law as a stage toward arriving at a verdict.

这些词在法庭上,指审判前的一个程序。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Compost differs from mulch but it can be used as mulch.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This evidence can be used by investigators who are working to solve the crime and as proof in a court of law.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

We've identified many drugs that stimulate insulin receptors, for example, but they're not exactly insulin, and those can potentially be used as agonist type drugs.

我们已经设计了很多,能够激活胰岛素受体的药物,但它们都不是和胰岛素分毫不差的,但都可以用作激动剂类药物

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Their documentation can be used in the future as a study tool and for language protection efforts,if needed.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Hamburg parsley has flat leaves that can be used for the same purposes as other parsley.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

It can be used for two- way communication, such as between a ship and land.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Colored paper also can be used, as well as small amounts of newspaper.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

General Craddock particularly criticized special rules, known as caveats,that many nations put on how their forces can be used.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24