"It's better and better. It's very professional this year. It used to be more mediocre-type stuff.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

It used to be when I was in grad school that most people said, "Oh,it was written around the year 200."

当我读研究生的时候大多数人认为，它形成于主后两百年“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

work is going from where it used to be 5 or 6 big companies in California, in San Francisco and LA.

过去的工作是由加州、旧金山和洛杉矶的五六个大公司来做，

经济危机和电影市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is an on-going program and it used to be run by EUCOM before our command was stood up,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

It used to be that government officials were all picked by political patronage and they, very often, were incompetent.

过去政府官员,通常都是走后门进来的,他们经常都是不称职的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I think the two sides are getting much nearer to each other than it used to be several weeks or several months ago,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Didn't create a new list. The old l is still there but it's different than it used to be.

它改变了数组，而并没有新建一个数组,老数组l依旧存在。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The Interlife partnership is now able to offer a kidney transplant and follow-up treatment for around $4,550 - about half of what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Skip Ryan says commercial fishing may never return to what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

It used to be that you had to big thick course packets that cost a lot of money, but now everything thankfully is available electronically on the course website.

过去你们总是,有厚厚的一打昂贵的资料,好在现在所资料都是电子版的,能在课程网站上得到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

(HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG) It used to be rare for people to live to 100.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Now, neurons are connected and they talk to one another and it used to be thought they were tied to one another like a computer, like you take wires and you connect wires to each other, you wrap them around and connect them.

神经元之间是相互联系的,它们彼此间存在信息的传递,人们曾经以为它们是被绑在一起的,就像计算机,就像是你要把所有的电线接在一起一样,你把电线缠起来,连在一起

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, it used to be I ran to getwhere I was going.

VOA: standard.other

And the first crack was a movie that's so long that it used to be the janitors, the people who cleaned these-- the very nice people who cleaned these rooms used to call it a two six-pack movie because it was so long.

第一个漏洞是一部特别长的电影,以前那个楼管,打扫卫生的,给这些教师打扫卫生的优秀工作者,以前管它叫一打啤酒电影因为太长了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Today,there are 27. The bounty isn't what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

So it could be dangerous anywhere in New York. It's not as dangerous as it used to be.

所以，纽约的任何地方都可能有危险。现在没从前那么危险了。

这里不危险 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Experts say any device used to heat a home should be inspected to make sure it is working correctly.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

It used to be employed by the Space Research Center at the specific Institute of Technology.

用于“空间研究中心“,这是一个特殊的技术协会。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It is also useful because the mold can be used over and over again to make exact copies of the ceramic form.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Humoral comes from the term humours and it used to be that we thought about disease as being caused by the balance of humours in our blood.

体液一词来源于体液学说,过去认为疾病的产生,与血中的体液平衡有关

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Much better than what it used to be.

比以前好的多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It can be given to children as young as one, which is earlier than vaccines currently used to fight meningitis epidemics in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

I think it, it's less now than it used to be like, you know, 50 years ago,

不过我想现在比过去少了，我是说，比50年前少了。

我们是普林斯顿家族 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It will also be used to rebuild Haiti's infrastructure - its important systems and services.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

I also love Central Park. It used to be a tradition for my husband and I.

同时，我也喜欢中央公园。我和我的丈夫过去经常到那里。

纽约的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

and more acceptable to the theater goers and it's different than it used to be.

更为戏剧爱好者接受吧。它和从前不同了。

过去的时代广场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A horse-drawing carriage in snowfalls that cause tires stick out of control with drivers gently toddles the ground and makes a nice pattern of black and white. That's how it used to be done, because he's a myth maker.

比如一辆马车在雪地上前行，但车轮松动,使马车夫不得不在雪地里慢条斯理地行进,这样的黑白画面塑造了很好的形象,这是他以前的做法，因为他是个创造神话的人，他说。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选