"Safety and security of our volunteers is absolutely our top priority and we are continually looking at this topic and I have to say that in the last few years we have done an amazing amount of work to try to improve both our systems to support volunteers, to ensure confidentiality and to strengthen their preparedness and training."

VOA: special.2011.03.28

Six years later when Milton writes Lycidas, he's employing the same fiction of unreadiness and filled with all of the same anxiety of under-preparedness.

六年后弥尔顿写《利西达斯》的时候，表现的还是这种未准备好的状态,充满了同样的为薄发而厚积时的焦躁。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And of course you will come to your discussion sections in the same state of joyful preparedness.

当然你们也需要参与到讨论中来,并做好充分的课前准备。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"They're just doing their military preparedness and doing their operational exercises and it's for those air defense purposes, and anti-ship purposes.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

We don't know. The issue is, and that's what this meeting is about, is preparedness.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Dr.Chan said all countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans and countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

Also attending are delegations from the African Union, the United Nations emergency preparedness office, the World Health Organization and the Red Cross as well as representatives from Egypt,Mali, Jordan and Nepal.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28