For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

When the bombs went off in London last year, I thought about Yeats and what he might have thought or written about this.

去年伦敦爆炸案发生时，我想到了叶芝,我想象他会想些什么,他会为此写些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They can take, like after they finish university, they can take a year off and go around the world.

他们可以，比如大学毕业以后，他们可以休假一年，去周游世界。

关于罗马尼亚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Students must re-apply after a year if they want to continue an off-campus job.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The AMT is getting extended year by year anyway so why not just deal with that one time and get it off the books.

既然越来越多的人需要交替代性最低税,何不一了百了，让大家都交,然后废掉不就结了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Everybody wants to go for a wonderful hike and start off with fresh air and all the things we're going to have in our lives the whole next year.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

After decades of relatively unspectacular growth, compared to the east Asian economies, India's economy suddenly took off three or four years ago, growing at 8% or more a year.

经历了几十年的相对高速发展后，与其他东亚经济体相比，印度经济三或四年前突然开始腾飞,以每年8%甚至超过%,8%的速度增长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

This is what longtime resident Susan Trinter, editor of the Foggy Bottom News, said in a Washington Post story earlier this year: "There seem to be many more students living off-campus now.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

followed by an "off-crop" the next year.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

I mean, if after I finish university, and I say I want to take a year off,

我是说，如果我大学毕业后说我要休息一年，

关于罗马尼亚 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Ghana earned a berth in this year's Under-20 World Cup final by seeing off Hungary in the semi-final round Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Biden condemned the announcement, saying it undermines the trust needed to restart negotiations, which have broken off for more than a year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

On Friday,Galina Petrovna, a 64-year-old Moscow nanny, let her two year old charge cool off with a dip in a public fountain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

And that focus has paid off. Demong and Lodwick led a U.S.breakthrough at last year's World Championships in Liberec, the Czech Republic.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

The Confederations Cup kicks off on Sunday and the World Cup opens in June of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.12

The virus appeared to be leveling off in North America and Europe by year's end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Off the Normandy coast,Earl W.Norwood was a 17-year-old sailor who operated a landing craft between the ships and Omaha Beach, one of the beaches where the Americans landed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

President Robert Mugabe swore himself into office for a new five-year term in June after then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off election because of violence against his supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"I think all of those things have accounted for the fact that the freefall did not continue and the economy is leveling off and we hope, improving into the next year,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The second major FIFA youth football tournament of the year will kick off Saturday in Nigeria when the host Golden Eaglets play Germany on the opening day of the Under-17 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

General Motors says it will lay off nearly 50,000 employees this year and that it plans to close five assembly plants, eliminate thousands of dealerships and reduce the number of its brands from eight to four - all in an effort to stay afloat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30