It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."
VOA: standard.2010.04.05
There has to be something more here than merely Johnson's massive blunder as a literary critic.
作为文学评论家,约翰逊是大错特错了,但他还是能给我们一些启发。
And it's literally, for about a month, the whole city is being turned into a massive collection of theatres.
大约是一个月,整个城市都变成了一个宏大的戏剧的作品集。
But he points to growing inequalities in adult mortality -- a "massive spread" between countries with the highest rates and those with the lowest.
VOA: special.2010.05.05
So, it's a massive, massive market and they have no tools whatsoever.
所以这是个非常非常大的市场,只是人们没有好的开发工具。
A study in 2005 found that around half of the Cambodian women who die in childbirth succumb to massive blood loss.
VOA: standard.2009.11.10
So the government intervene on a massive scale.
所以政府进行了大规模的干预。
Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.
VOA: standard.2009.09.12
And then there is a trend going from least massive to most massive.
有一个趋势是,从最小的到最大的。
Just eight days after a massive earthquake crushed Haiti, another one hit, instilling fresh fears among Haitians still reeling from the first.
VOA: standard.2010.01.20
They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.
岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛
Bollywood has a massive fan following, not only in India, but in many Asian countries such as Indonesia,Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
VOA: standard.2010.07.22
Okay, in Edinburgh, they have every year, every summer, they have a massive festival of theatre.
好的,在爱丁堡,他们每年,每个夏天,他们有一个关于剧院的大型的节日。
Soldiers have launched a massive rescue operation. The army has a heavy presence in the area, which shares a border with China.
VOA: standard.2010.08.06
You get people like Chris Martin from Coldplay, you know, such a, you know, massive band
比如说,有来自酷玩乐队的克里斯•马丁,那是一个非常大型的乐队,
Rocket attacks have been rare since Israel's massive three-week assault on Gaza a year and a half ago.
VOA: standard.2010.07.30
And we have a massive music venue in the north of England called the Sage,
在英格兰北部,我们有一个巨大的音乐场所叫做赛捷。
They came to the village to clean up the trash, climb the massive rocks atop the mountain, and later have a picnic.
VOA: standard.2010.04.01
and it was really sweet. We managed to get like a massive bit of cheese.
那次真的很贴心。我们得到了很大一块芝士。
Despite a string of attacks early Sunday,mainly in Baghdad, insurgents were not able to carry out the massive strikes they had threatened.
VOA: standard.2010.03.08
Okay there's a massive majority for Down.
那么多人选下呀
Lubetkin and her co-author based their findings on a massive collection of data, covering 3.5 million people.
VOA: standard.2010.08.10
So the whole kind of area around here is a massive, massive tourist area,
所以,整个这个地区是一个非常、非常热闹的旅游胜地,
A massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra created a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean.
VOA: standard.2009.12.26
I've come back from Ecuador and it's a massive shock, you know.
我从厄瓜多尔回来,这里的物价对我来说,是个巨大的冲击。
Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.
VOA: standard.2009.07.02
It's a massive hub for all sorts of people coming,
这里是各类人群的汇集之地,
it says clearly that Israel is guilty of massive human rights violations and a number of crimes that are already listed in a mandate,"
VOA: standard.2009.11.06
Chris Hoy. He's a cyclist. He has massive legs.
克里斯•霍伊。他是个自行车运动员。他有强健的双腿。
but he owns a massive department store in London.
但他在伦敦有一个规模巨大的百货公司。
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