More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

What they also did around the year one thousand was to identify-- to label--these particular spots--spaces and lines.

在公元一千年左右,他们还制定了规范,来标记这每一个点,间和线

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's interesting that this person uses the word calculation; this person has the idea--this was-- 1600 was around the year when probability theory was invented.

有意思的是,这个人用了"计算"这个词,这个人想到了这个主意,概率论正是1600年左右产生的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One study of agencies that list women seeking husbands found there were around ten thousand "mail-order marriages" a year.

VOA: special.2011.02.14

Because as a young, four or five-year-old company, if we're trying to attract somebody from a company that's been around since before I was born, that is in the computer industry, that's pretty hard.

因为作为一个只有四五岁的年轻公司，如果我们想要吸引大家的注意,尤其是在公司创立之前，这在电脑行业是很难的。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

A new study found better results in four-year-olds who go to bed around the same time every night and sleep at least eleven hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Typically--I don't know for those particular children, but typically on those tasks three-year-olds and young four-year-olds tend to fail, and around the age of four or five kids tend to succeed.

我不太了解那些特定儿童的情况,但一般来讲,三岁和刚进入四岁的儿童,通常会在这些任务中失败,而四岁或是五岁左右的儿童则通常会成功

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Last year,eighty-six scientists from around the world found all the genes in "Golden Delicious" apples.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

As long as we have five it will go; but, it's really fun and you'll know people around here, if you're above a first-year student who have taken this, and it really rocks, it's really great. And Brian Reilly is going to do this.

不过只要有五个这课就开,不过这门课真挺有意思的,而且你能在这认识一些人,如果你比那些上过这门课的大一新生强的话,真挺带劲的,真的不错,布莱恩·莱利负责法语课程

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There are also non-Christian holy days around this time of year.

VOA: special.2011.04.22

Look how--this is as of earlier this year; the Federal Funds Rate was at around 4% and it has this huge drop in the term structure and then it starts the upward-sloping.

这是今年早些时候的图形,当时联邦利率徘徊在4%,但期限结构,在此处急转直下之后又开始掉头向上

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are around a half-million cases a year, mostly in the Amazon basin, a region heavily affected by deforestation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Even people who do not care about . American-style football often watch the Super Bowl, with an estimated worldwide audience this year of around one billion people.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27