He had made the Fillmore Auditorium popular worldwide by bringing famous African American performers like Billie Holiday,James Brown and Sammy Davis,Jr.Bill.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

That's the fall holiday, when we sit outside and celebrate the fall harvest.

那时正是这个节日，我们坐在外面,庆祝丰收。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You know, I came over on a holiday, the first time. I came on a six-month visa holiday.

那时我是来度假的，第一次来。凭六个月假期签证过来的。

想当军人的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the United States, holiday gift giving is important not only for the usual reasons, like showing friendship and love.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

this is perhaps the most interesting thing because it forces us to show the complexity, to see the complexity, of semiotic relationships: a red light, just to return to the Christian holiday, a red light on a Christmas tree.

现在我们讲到了一个耐人寻味论点,这个问题迫使我们要思考，符号系统之间复杂的联系：,当我们再圣诞节时看到红灯，圣诞树上的红灯。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is all I know." Here is Billie Holiday singing a popular song of the Nineteen thirties, "More Than You Know."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

We've a harvest holiday called Sukkot, where we actually sit outside, in this open structures that have natural coverings, branches, often where you can see the stars as a reminder of the time when the Israelites wandering in the desert, after they were released from slavery in Egypt.

我们会过一个收获的节日，叫做结茅节，那时，我们坐在外面，在自然的开阔天地,树枝是我们的屋顶,满天星斗让我们想起,以色列人摆脱了埃及人的奴役，在沙漠中流浪的岁月。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

even though it is the holiday season. Just seeing little twinkling lights around

即使是圣诞季。仅仅看着四周摇曳的微光，

洛克菲勒中心的时光 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Cape May now is as popular a summer holiday place as it was at the turn of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

But I think the stores are closed tomorrow. Because there's a holiday.

但明天商店可能已经关门了。因为明天是假日。

The thing is 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One movie shown at the National Building Museum is called "Designing a Great Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes at Holiday."

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Okay, Boxing Day. Well, it's a second public holiday here.

好的。节礼日，是这儿的第二大公共假日。

特殊的休息日 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Peyroux has said that the great blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith still help shape her identity.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

and we have our summer holiday now.

现在是暑假。

和朋友一起逛洛杉矶 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer, John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

It began to affect her health. In nineteen forty-seven, Billie Holiday was arrested for possessing illegal drugs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Grant made no speeches. He spent the summer at a holiday town on the Atlantic Ocean coast.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

This Thursday is a day for families and friends to share a special holiday meal and think about what they are thankful for.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Charles Schulz had Snoopy remember Bill Mauldin every year on the American holiday that honors former soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

For the next seventeen years, Holiday was one of the most popular nightclub singers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But adults are not the only ones who have something to say about the holiday season.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer,John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, "Roman Holiday,"

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Final numbers for the holiday season including after-Christmas sales will not be known for a while.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

I think it's a meaningful holiday just to be nice to people and to remember people."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

She and Arthur Herzog wrote it. Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Billie Holiday's health was ruined by using illegal drugs and by drinking too much alcohol.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

Katherine Cole has more. To get into the spirit of the upcoming holiday, we asked several people what they were doing this year to celebrate.

VOA: special.2010.07.02