In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

This is a poem written in the depth of the Depression and also at the height of Frost's fame.

这是一首写在经济危机时候的诗,也是在弗罗斯特最有名的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And when my dad was here, he was in like, the sort of height of his crazy phase.

我父亲在这儿上学的时候，纳什的精神失常正处于最严重的阶段。

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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat decided in nineteen ninety-six to include the height of the spires of the Petronas Towers.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.

这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里，谁会被淹死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This led to its surpassing the height of the Sears Tower in Chicago by about ten meters.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height."

同时也预示了腐朽的教会的溃败，从高处狠狠的崩溃坠落“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And the water here, came in like that,bang." When Katrina hit, water levels exceeded the height and strength of many of these walls.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

The first is obviously Marx against the backdrop of the first great Socialist Revolution which eventually resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the Russian formalist movement was at its height.

第一个当然是马克思,当时的巴黎公社运动,最终导致了俄国十月革命，这时俄国的形式主义运动正处于高潮。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

He was the average height of most people in France.

他算是法国人里中等个子的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

At Illusions CD shop in downtown Islamabad, employee Irfan says, even today, years after the height of Jackson's career, people still come to buy his music.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Living in Florence, the center of the Renaissance at the height of the Renaissance, Machiavelli wished to do for politics what his contemporaries, like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, had done for art and sculpture.

住在佛罗伦萨，这个文艺复兴时期的核心,且是在文艺复兴的鼎盛时期，马奇亚维利想在政治上,达到像同辈，如达文西和米开朗基罗，于艺术与雕刻方面的成就。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. While violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically since the height of sectarian fighting, the attacks were the second major security breach in Baghdad a city filled with checkpoints in two months.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

So because of my height, in school, they would give me the ball.

所以在学校里他们会因为我的个子高而把球传给我。

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