Democrat Al Franken leads Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, and if he is declared the winner, would become the party's 60th vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

If nature is a norm, it does not, again, mandate or incline us to peace, friendship and solidarity with others.

如果自然是一个准则，它不会，指引我们向和平，友爱,和与别人的团结。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It might be true that those cases do happen, but I really think they are not the norm.

虽然有这种案例，但我并不认为这是一种普遍情况。

需要动物实验吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That's where Jake and his colleagues come in: "Me and Norm are here to 'drive' these remotely-controlled bodies called avatars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

We hand you a bunch of programming code that we wrote because this is very much the norm in the real world.

我们给你们一些我们自己写的代码,因为在现实世界中这都是非常正常的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

More than seven months after the election, Norm Coleman came before reporters at his home in St.Paul,Minnesota to concede defeat.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

I know it's possible to induce chemical reactions, but these are exceptions. This is not the norm.

我知道催化化学反应是可能的，但是那些是特例，不是常规情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That has been the historic norm," The president spoke in the Oval Office, after meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

So the lessons to be learned, after years of watching this, is that the norm is change.

因此在观察许多年后，我发现了经验，改变是一种常态。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

"Impunity is the norm." "The few perpetrators that have been held accountable are the exception to the rule.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Okay, so you could see difficulties in estimating on both sides of the norm. Yes?

所以你们可以看到在一定范围内,做估算有多困难

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

and that social norm is just something that's changed over time." And people share a lot.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Not ever a human rights norm, I'm saying is absolutely right.

我并不是说哪一种人权规范，是绝对正确的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In an emotional session of the Scottish parliament, frank exchanges were the norm.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Asymmetry is not the norm in music so eight's a good bet there.

音乐中不对称结构很少见,所以说八个应该不错

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The fact there is no clear-cut front-runner, as is the norm in more stagnant, authoritarian states nearby, has led many voters to seize their chance to make a difference.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

But it's by no means the norm. It's actually, probably I'm a bit unusual like that

但是那绝对不是规范的。事实上，可能我有一点不太平常的是，

英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You can also get away, as I said last time, with just putting parentheses in JavaScript and PHP, this is, in fact, the norm.

就像我上次说的，你也可以不用参数，在JavaScript和PHP中只用圆括号，这实际上是一个规范。

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