But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Western countries, and especially the United States say, "We have a big pharmaceutical industry that develops new drugs.

西方国家，尤其是美国宣称，我们拥有研发新药品的大制药业。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And his stories about life in the western United States became the book called "Roughing It."

VOA: special.2010.03.21

That was when mines in the western United States began to produce large amounts of silver.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Another issue during Hayes's administration involved a railroad in the western United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The long-range rocket Pyongyang intends to launch is theoretically capable of delivering a warhead as far as the western United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The North Korean rocket expected to launch this weekend is theoretically capable of reaching the western United States.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Some people say Paul Bunyan was the creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes area of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Huge herds of cattle were brought there from western states to be transported by railroad to markets in the eastern United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Still,murder rates in the United States have generally been among the highest among Western democracies since the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

NATO first brought together the countries of Western Europe with Canada and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

These areas include the Alps in Italy and Switzerland, the coastal mountains of western Canada, and the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The plan succeeded. Some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned the right of the United States to act as policeman for the Western Hemisphere.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

"Vaccination,which we tend to take for granted in countries like the United States or in Western Europe, in fact a lot of us don't even know which diseases we've been vaccinated against.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

But the United States and many other western nations believe Iran's real aim is to develop nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The offensive came after the United States and other western allies criticized the Pakistani military for failing to rein in the extremists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Holbrooke said the United States is encouraging Pakistan to move more troops to its Western border.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

The United States and other Western Hemisphere countries have refused to recognize the Honduran interim government.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The United States and other Western nations accuse Iran of seeking to develop a nuclear weapon.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

For decades,diamond merchants in Surat in western Gujarat state have imported rough stones, and exported them to the United States and Europe after they are cut and polished.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The visit comes just days after the United States and other Western nations condemned the military government's order to extend the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Although top Iranian leaders say they will not negotiate with the United States, that did not prevent foreign visits with Western officials by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Muttaqi.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20