But a poll,commissioned by the American Red Cross, indicates 20 percent of Americans plan to reduce their charitable contributions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Who commissioned these paintings and what they painted tell you who these people thought they were.

那些人下订单并且告诉你所要画的内容,而从这些信息能猜出他们是怎么想自己的

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It has a lot to do with who they thought they were, the paintings they bought, the paintings they commissioned, the way they viewed themselves.

也与他们如何认识自己紧密相连,他们买什么样的画 他们委托画什么样的画,他们对自己的看法

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Remona Aly, from the Exploring Islam Foundation, says her organization, which commissioned the poll, felt it needed to respond.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

And so in the case of A Mask here, it's the Lord John Egerton, the Earl of Bridgewater who commissioned Milton to write a piece honoring his own inauguration in his new role as the Lord President of Wales.

所以在《面具》这个例子中，是贵族约翰埃杰顿，布里奇沃特伯爵,指派弥尔顿去写一篇文章,来歌颂他掌管威尔士的就职典礼的。

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The report commissioned by the U.N.Human Rights Council found that both sides committed serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

They commissioned a study, a cost-benefit analysis of smoking in the Czech Republic, and what their cost-benefit analysis found was the government gains by having Czech citizens smoke.

他们资助了一项研究，进行在捷克吸烟的成本效益分析，分析结果显示,让捷克人民吸烟，能让政府获利。

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He hired a young bandmaster from Harvard, named Leroy Anderson, to do some arrangements for the Pops, then commissioned him to write some new pieces.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

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Each year since 1995,the company has commissioned a survey on science literacy and workplace issues.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

It's nearly always commissioned by the king to be performed at court before a private audience of select nobility, it's commissioned by an aristocratic family to be performed at the aristocratic family's estate to honor or to celebrate a specific occasion.

它几乎是由国王指派,去庭院表演给一部分贵族的，它是由一个贵族家庭指派,在贵族家族的房子里表演,是去庆祝一个特定场合的。

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Even China's government has commissioned a U.S.firm to build a massive facility that would produce 80 times more solar energy than the new Florida plant.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14