"I'll be very honest with King Abdullah with whom I have developed a good relationship, indicating to him that we're not going to be eliminating our need for oil imports in the immediate future;

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Because he wasn't a very good card player his posse took him for fairly sizable amounts of money.

由于他不是个打牌高手,他的警卫队,把他看作等身的钞票

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work with him on his school work, set a good example for him.

应该跟孩子一起做作业，为孩子树立榜样。

重要的是家庭教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And that was the most important thing for him." Abdul-Jabbar said at first he felt this was too good to be true, but he said he realized it was not after a month or two of seeing Wooden at work.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

If you support Bush you're going to be looking for good news about Bush, if you don't support him you'll be looking for bad news.

如果你支持布什,你就会寻找关于布什的正面新闻，如果你不支持布什，就会寻找他的负面新闻。

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"I have been up on Obama for a long time. People in Chicago have been knowing Obama for the longest time, because him and his wife had been doing a lot of good things, trying to help out the neighborhoods."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

It's been said that to quote anybody is necessarily to misrepresent him, and this fact is obviously a very good thing for Lady Mary Chudleigh since Milton would certainly not himself have wanted to suggest that women are superior to men.

有这样一种说法，引用任何人的话都难免曲解其原意，很显然这对玛丽·恰德莱夫人的论证是有利的,因为弥尔顿的原意绝对不可能是说,女人的地位要高于男人。

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I mean, the equivalent of a healthy teenage male slave, if you could sell him for $1000.00 in 1860 it's about the same price of a good Toyota Camry today.

我的意思是,一个健康的十几岁的男性奴隶的价值,假如你在1860年把他卖到一千美金的话,那么在今天就大约相当于,一辆不错的丰田佳美汽车的价格

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