In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.

你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界，那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Here it is; it's in your anthology as well: I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.

你们选集里有这首：,我为我的歌儿缝就,一件长长的外套,上面缀满剪自古老,神话的花边刺绣；,但蠢人们把它抢去，穿上在人前炫示,俨然出自他们之手。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The magical world of Disney animation lost its cornerstone in 1966 when the 65-year-old Disney died of lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

But he added that, just as the United States must change the way it conducts itself in the world, so too must its neighbors abandon old attitudes.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17