Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight."
VOA: special.2009.05.22
It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.
这就是海岸平原,它提供了或说它本身就是,离开埃及或者下埃及的主要通道。
and then there's a plain house, which isn't a cultural house. That's just what I'm in.
还有一个普通房,不是文化房。我就住在那里。
His clothes did not fit well. And he had a plain face, one which many thought was ugly.
VOA: special.2009.06.11
Inside the suitcase is a plain piece of white paper and the children were asked to draw the things they think they would need on the trip. Sometimes they get they wouldn't need.
行李箱里面是一张普通的白纸,我要求孩子们,在纸上画出他们认为必要的,旅行用品,有时候他们画出来的并不需要。
One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.
VOA: special.2010.01.08
If you look at your map you will see first on the west side, you've got a low coastal plain. It is about 20 or 30 miles wide.
如果看地图的话,你会首先在西端看到,你会看到地势低的海岸平原,大约20到30公里宽。
Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.
VOA: special.2009.10.06
Take, for example, "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."
看,西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“
Here are some expressions about plain old bugs, another word for insects.
VOA: special.2009.06.28
No, they grow up like the Athenian does, right smack in the middle of a plain, which is a good place for farming, with a great high acropolis available.
它们和雅典的扩展方式类似,在一个平原的中心扎根,因为那里适合农业生产,然后建起一座高大的卫城
Now this Joe Blow was NOT walking next to a plain Jane.
VOA: special.2010.02.07
You'll notice I have the string with the number 1 MIT a string with MIT, and then it just a plain old number, not a string, again it didn't quite give me 3.3 for reasons we've talked before, a and now it in the list a.
你们可以看到这儿有个以字符串1,形式显示的数字1,1个字符串,还有一个非字符串形式的平常数字,结果并不是3。3,原因之前我们,已经讨论过了,还有一个在list中的。
A plain Jane is a woman who is neither ugly nor pretty.
VOA: special.2010.02.07
If you have some plain text, some message that you want to send, well, you can encrypt it or you can scramble it using a key, a secret key, which might be a physical machine like the Enigma 13 or it might be a number like 13.
如果你有没有加密的文本,你想要寄送的一些消息,你就可以加密它,或者你可以用一个密钥使其变得混乱,那就像一个英格玛的物理装置,或者他就是一个数字。
Annetta Cheek heads the Center for Plain Language in Silver Spring,Maryland.
VOA: special.2010.04.30
But at the same time the study of moral reasoning is a fascinated--fascinating issue for those of us interested in cross-cultural psychology because there are plain differences across cultures.
但同时,道德推理是一个很有趣的研究,尤其对那些对跨文化心理感心趣的人,因为每个文化都有明显的差异。
Allan Hills 84001 is a plain-looking rock.
VOA: special.2010.07.28
Okay, how little plain water was actually consumed.
好,所喝的白开水很少
Calvin Coolidge was quiet and plain-looking.
VOA: special.2010.12.23
In plain English, this says that there are two electrons in the 1s orbital.
通俗地说,就是1s轨道上有两个电子的意思。
"Turkey red is perfectly plain in calicoes,"
VOA: special.2010.08.21
The Plain of Megiddo also joins with the Valley of Jezreel.
美厉多平原与耶斯列山谷相接。
He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.
VOA: special.2009.02.09
I think for the moment it should be plain to you that this is a good way of understanding what the difference between a useful preconception and a useless preconception brought to bear on an interpretative act might consist in.
我想大家现在都能够,从这个例子中明白,解读中有益先见,和无益先见,之间的区别了。
The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.
VOA: standard.2010.04.26
That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.
在出埃及记时期,这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布,靠近海岸平原,是低矮的山区。
Are you dumb,or just plain stupid? Look, I'm Forrest Gimp.
VOA: standard.other
There can be fighting without war but there can be no war without an organization that makes it something more than just plain fighting.
就算没有战争,争斗同样可以存在,但没有组织,便没有战争,组织使的战争的意义超出了单纯的争斗
What's important in My Fair Lady is to - repeat the repetitiousness of verse-- the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain -in terms of the tautology of the plot.
重要的是窈窕淑女中,这种韵律的加强-,“西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“,韵律的反复加强了情节。
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