Georgetown professor Robert Lieber says he is not surprised the White House may be shifting its position.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Her aim is to get along in a world that is dominated by shifting forces that can be registered and reacted to by poetry, but not explained.

她的目的是通过诗歌所能记录，达到却不能解释的,变幻莫测的力量,来和被统治的世界相处。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That the borders of our minds are shifting, and that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

实际上这是指我们的想象力],我们心灵的边界一直变化，我们的记忆是一个伟大的，自然的记忆的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Tea Party activists seem more focused on shifting the Republican Party in a more conservative direction than in forming their own political party.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The good news is that we are going to be shifting gears very soon and moving into subject matter unlike anything you have seen in high school, and so you will get a fresh start.

好消息是我们将,马上运行设备并且转向主要课题,不想你在高中所学的任何知识，所以你将有个新的开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The military is already shifting to a newer, slightly less sophisticated aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, designed more for attacking targets on the ground.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

But it was completely obvious that that was where the profit was shifting in the industry.

这非常明显地说明了,利益在行业内是不断变化的。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

But he warns that some of Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and instead sailing further out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

And students and professors have shifting expectations.

学生和教授的期望在变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"We know that it is a risk factor but we can't attribute the rise in autism to the shifting trend towards having children later in life."

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

Starbuck This was the main character known as "Starbuck," who got transformed into a woman in the more recent one, a sort of example of how portrayals are shifting in interesting ways.

这个是主角，被称为“,最近拍的那部，把这个角色变成了女人，这个例子就能有趣地说明媒体的描绘,总是变来变去的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Britain-based piracy expert Peter Lehr says Somalia's pirates are shifting their attentions from the Gulf of Aden and increasingly sailing farther out in the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Overdoing this class is shifting the pendulum.

我们要做的就像是改变钟摆幅度。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

And so in the sentence that we've just looked at at some length now we have embodied in the form of a shifting argument - a really slippery argument -- the two senses of the word vocation: vocation as a job and vocation as a divine calling.

所以在我们详细看过的句子里,现在我们把他具体化成为论点的形式,这是一种狡猾的论辩--vocation的两种含义：,作为工作或者作为神的召唤。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Warawoot Benjjaputtarog, the deputy managing director at GT Wealth Management, an investment firm that runs such seminars, says education is important for those who are shifting from gold bullion or jewelry to sophisticated futures contracts.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Mr.Obama highlighted steps that already have been taken to save money - from consolidating facilities at the Department of Agriculture to a shifting from business trips to video conferencing at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

A long-standing drought, along with recent devastating bushfires and widespread floods have given some scientists more reason to think that the vast continent is likely to be one of the countries hardest hit by a shifting climate.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"Development is a right and that should continue but that perhaps paths where there could be a reconciliation of the objective of poverty reduction, enhanced standards of living, a life of greater dignity in developing countries can be reconciled with climate objectives by shifting the sources of energy away from the fossil fuels to the cleaner and lower carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01