Maya Lin cut out the shapes of three bodies of water using thin layers of wood.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Things are not "made up" in Frost, "not made up" in the sense of imagined, called up out of thin air, like fairies and elves.

弗罗斯特的诗歌里没有编造，没有想象，像仙女和精灵那样的凭空想象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Ransie showed no emotion. But he reached out his big hand and took Ariela's thin one.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04