They wanted railroads that reached across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

If you go onto the continent,though, they tended to be interrupted by World War I and World War II.

如果你们往欧洲大陆国家那里考虑,一战和二战期间的数据几乎是没有存档的

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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At that time the United States did not stretch all the way across the continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Bourgeois and burghers, as I said last time, are urban residents who are losing their privileges on the continent to big-time absolute states.

中产阶级和市民,正如我上次所讲的,这些城市居民是那些在欧洲大陆,被绝对主义国家剥夺权利的人

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In eighteen thirty-nine the American Naval officer Charles Wilkes led an expedition to the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

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He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He seems to have had some work as the state licenser, but also more importantly as the nation's Latin secretary, which means that he would compose and translate all of England's correspondence with the governments on the continent into and from Latin.

他作为国家执照签发人似乎真做了一些工作，但更重要的是,弥尔顿还担任了国家拉丁语文书，也就是说他要,把英格兰大陆上政府的所有通信,编译成拉丁文或者从拉丁文编译成英语。

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Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

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He mapped over two thousand kilometers of the continent's coastline.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He spent a considerable amount of time on the European continent with his young tutee, Mr. Cavandish.

他花了大量时间,和学生研究欧洲大陆，他的学生也就是卡文迪许。

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There are about sixty research stations on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Last year,about forty-five thousand travelers visited the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

But many places on the continent ban it.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Ghana had carried the hopes of the continent when became the only African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

In an earlier address to business leaders in Pretoria, Mrs Clinton says that there is great untapped potential on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Easterbrook began collecting African-related Obama items on a trip to the continent in 2007, when then Senator Obama was running for president.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Today Africa owes about $400 million to donors, though relief efforts have alleviated the debt of several of the continent's poorest countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Kale is categorizing the incoming World Cup items that are as diverse as the continent they come from.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

The president said Ghana has become an example for the rest of the continent a country where development is spurred by good governance.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Premier Wen also said Beijing would cancel debts owed it by some of the continent's poorest nations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

President Zuma's silence certainly contradicts that and seems to be an abdication of the leadership role that South Africa could be providing the continent."

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

The South Africa leader also emphasized that this is an event for the continent of Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

Africa,with already severe weather conditions and a poor population largely dependent on subsistence farming, is considered to be the continent most threatened by climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

August in Australia culminated in a record-breaking heat-wave across much of the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

He called on a new generation of Africans to build democracy, create opportunity,fight corruption, and end the long cycle of strongman rule and conflict on the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Despite recent wet weather across much of the continent, climatologists warn that a looming El Nino pattern could bring drier conditions to Australia in the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24