"Yes." "Well,we can't support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

I think it's impossible not to wince when we imagine the painful tearing of the nymphs' tresses.

当我们想象那些年轻少女的长发被扯断的时候,我们会感到战栗不已。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's very tearing data.

很让人痛心。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

As we approached the mountain, the hills and gulleys bore the appearance of having been created by some vast, fierce torrent rushing around the base of the peak, and tearing its way through the loose earth....

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Every once in awhile, the rangers must crack down on reckless pilots of air boats that skim across the swamp, endangering themselves and others and tearing up delicate foliage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"They have all these great plans for new designs and new buildings and reflecting pools and memorial this and memorial that I think they should leave a little bit they are tearing the last bit of it out now,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.01