The leaves on many of the trees have already begun to change color as they prepare to drop to the ground.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

It's a material force that his rhetoric challenges and relies on, gives him a means of getting off the ground, and a means of always getting back to it, too.

这是他的修辞所挑战的并且依赖的物质力量，这种力量给他离开地面的方法，也给他回到地面的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

and you've got to hit a ball which is on the ground with a sort of croquet mallets.

你要用一个类似木槌的东西去打击地上的球。

知道马球吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

we "put both feet squarely on the ground" of the Eiffel Tower, we're liberated from the idea that somehow or another it's a governing presence.

如果，我们将，“双脚平放于地面“，站在埃菲尔铁塔上，我们就摆脱了,它是一种支配性的存在的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

First, take the case in the elevator is on the ground floor of some building and completely addressed.

首先我们来看看电梯,在一楼时候的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

" Some one with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The Essex stood half over the other prophet as if it were pleased to guard what it had finally brought down. The man didn't look so much like Haze lying on the ground on his face without his hat or suit on. A lot of blood was coming out of him and forming a puddle around his head.

埃塞克斯看着这个先知，好像很高兴地守卫着,自己撞倒的这个人，这个男人看起来与海斯并不相像,没有戴着帽子或穿着西装趴在地上，一大堆血,从他的体内涌出，在头部附近形成了一个水坑状的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The New Victorian School had burned to the ground because of an electrical problem on January twelfth,two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

When you have a velocity in the moving plane frame and you want to find the velocity on the ground, you should add to every object in the plane the velocity of the plane with respect to the ground.

当你在运动的飞机上运动,然后你想找到相对于地面的速度,你就应该给每个物体加上,飞机相对于地面的速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

When there is fresh snow on the ground, the surface of the snow takes in, or absorbs,sound waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The force threw little Bill out of the wagon and he landed on the sandy ground.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

The Council explains on its Web site that early tall buildings were generally measured from the ground floor to the top of the building, not including flagpoles.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

"But the actual negotiations of the loan conditions on the ground is done by technocratic economists, staff members at the IMF, and they're going to continue to do their job."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

It was just lying on the ground. All you had to do was go to Alaska, and then to the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory of Canada and collect your gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Mr.Ban says he will visit some of the hardest hit areas, including the conflict zone, to assess conditions on the ground .

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

Other gun owners openly showed their weapons as they stood at the border of Washington on Virginia ground.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The international forces will handle the two outer tiers on the ground and in the air for the thousands of polling stations nationwide.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

This is not just about getting boots on the ground. This is part of NATO's strategy for getting Afghanistan back on its feet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

But the NATO chief said it underlines the solidarity of the 44 ISAF countries and will have a "powerful effect on the ground."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Unconfirmed rumors on the ground say Hamas is clearing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The Obama administration would like to begin a withdrawal of U.S.troops from Afghanistan by July of next year, depending on circumstances on the ground.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Army General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S.and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has sent his evaluation of the situation on the ground to Mr.Obama and European leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29