They proposed that huge volcanic explosions caused the Neanderthals to die out in Western Europe.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Mr.Obama's popularity ratings are considerably lower in Central Europe than in Western Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

In other places, infectious disease is a much bigger part of their life and a much greater risk of death from infectious diseases and parasitic diseases if you live in places other than the U. S. or Western Europe, for example.

在其他地区,感染性疾病,对当地人们的生活构成了更大威胁,他们死于感染性疾病或者,寄生虫之类疾病风险更高,如果你生活在,美国或欧洲之外的地方的话

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We need to get better at launching ideas." The challenge is convincing the people in member countries, particularly in Western Europe, that what NATO does is important for their future.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In the spring and summer,he says, he would expect the prevailing winds in Western Europe to come from the West or Southwest - which would mean that the ash would be pushed towards the Arctic or Siberia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

In a country the size of western Europe, we can't be everywhere at the same time, and the hotline allows them to call in no matter where they are and to ask usthe information that we can provide -- even if we're not necessarily able to provide the services directly."

VOA: special.2010.05.03

For decades,diamond merchants in Surat in western Gujarat state have imported rough stones, and exported them to the United States and Europe after they are cut and polished.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Energy has become a major concern in several Western countries, after a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over prices led to major natural gas shortages in Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23