For example, you hear the expression, ace in the hole, used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

This kind of tension doesn't make things clear; the rules are not absolute, and not everybody fits into a pigeon hole.

这种紧张的冲突并不能让万事柳暗花明,因为事事无绝对,并不是每个人都能一个萝卜一个坑

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And hole in the walls that people don't even know about, and they are just like, they line the streets.

那儿有人们都不知道的小店铺，它们就像，排列在大街上一样。

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But the box is built so you can not turn the bar toward the hole.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The moon says to him:] 'Oh, I've been scanning pond and hole And waterway hereabout For the body of one with a sunken soul Who has put his life-light out.

月亮对他说],哦，我一直在审视着池塘和地洞,还有在附近的排水沟,因为一个人的灵魂已沦陷,熄灭了他的生命之光。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

An ace in the hole is an argument, plan or thing kept hidden until needed.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

French universities are named very poetically, Paris I,II,III,IV,V,VI, all the way through XIV, which is a real hole, or XIII is probably the worst.

巴黎的大学命名得都很有诗意,巴黎第一大学,第二大学,第三大学,以此类推,一直到第十四大学,这是真实存在的,第十三大学可能是最差的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

When this happened, my friend would have to go in the hole.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

What we will have come to us, is a corresponding response from every neuron, for example in the upper left, you would see a green little hole.

我们看到的是，每个神经元都作出反应，比如在左上方，大家能够看到一个绿色的小洞。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

One by one, the Marines moved through the hole.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Either you open a nice hole between yourself and the rest of your army, in which case somebody's going to get very badly killed and you're going to be on the run very soon, or you have to somehow communicate to the rest of the army, "Everybody come over this way," which will still leave that flank open to being flanked by the other side.

或者在你和自己的军队之间,形成一个缺口,这样有会造成惨重的伤亡,你很快会全军溃逃,或者你以某种方式和部队沟通,全都过来这边,这样仍会使一侧对敌人敞开,从而受到对方攻击

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Often,the ace in the hole wins the game.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

We need to make sure that all Americans, not just the folks who happen to work on Wall Street, feel that we are digging ourselves out of the hole,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Fire in the hole!

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It looks severely damaged. But the huge hole, the names and other marks seem to add to its sound.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

There is a small hole in the side to drain out extra moisture and keep from drowning the plants.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

During the summers, she studied the ocean and its life forms at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Professor Atema works with Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, both in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

The fifty-nine year old Watson needed to make a short attempt on his final hole to win the British Open.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Mr.Hoff says the trick is that nature does not dig a hole like we humans do to plant seeds.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

You can put your hands through a hole in a clear, plastic box and hold the huge piece of gold.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

In fact, the average sale price of a single-family home in Jackson Hole is more than one million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

One argument against the comet theory is that a comet would have left a large hole in the Earth's surface.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

In modern terms,the hot oven that the glassblower uses to quickly reheat the glass is called a "glory hole."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

His tall hat flew off and soldiers found it on the ground with a bullet hole through it.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Scientists believe it is evidence that a large object struck Jupiter, cutting a hole in the atmosphere of the huge, gaseous planet.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

People come to Jackson Hole,Wyoming, from around the world to enjoy the best of cowboy and mountain culture.

VOA: special.2009.02.16