A new report by the I.M.F.estimates that the world economy will shrink by one and three-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

For example, in the late 1990s, if you were to ask a question--I'm hypothesizing -how likely is it that the Dow will be over 10,000 by the year 2008?

例如,在90年代末,假如有人问你这样一个问题,道指在2008年底前,突破万点大关的可能性有多大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His goal is to increase the percentage of college graduates from forty percent to sixty percent by the year twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The next day in class, I used that and I said to the students, "You know, the last thing in the world that I want you to think is that I experience a constant high or that you, by the end of the semester or the year-- it was a year course, you-- by the end of the year-- " will experience a constant high."

第二天上课时，我讲了这件事并对学生说，“我最不希望你们以为,我总是保持快乐，或者你们，在期未或学年未-,那门课程要讲一年，你们到学年未时-,会一直保持快乐“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Without new treatments,the W.H.O.says, the number of new cancer patients could reach twenty-seven million a year by two thousand thirty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Again, this is price divided by ten-year earnings, not one-year earnings.

这是价格除十年的收益,不是一年的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The story is told by Sara Louise Bradshaw, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her parents and her twin sister Caroline.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

We call an instrument of the U.S. Treasury with a maturity less than or equal to one year--we call that a bill and they used to be the only discount bonds issued by the U.S. Government.

我们把期限小于或等于一年的,国库券品种称为短期国库券,它们曾是美国政府,唯一发行的贴现债券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Many students save money by starting their education at a two-year public college, also known as a community college.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The price of a share is the price of the ownership of that earnings' stream If I buy a share I'm in with everyone else who owns the company and I have a claim on the earnings' stream, but the earnings' stream is a year-by-year thing.

每股价格是指,收入所有权的价格,如果我和其他股东一样买了一份股票,那么我就对收益有要求权,但收益是逐年计算的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If confirmed by the Senate, the fifty-year-old Kagan would be the youngest justice on the current Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, a thirty-eight year old federation of seven territories ruled by emirs.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

The president is moving to raise that to about sixty-eight thousand by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Drug-maker Bristol-Myers Squibb hopes to get permission to sell ipilimumab by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

These were developed in a year-long process led by state governors and chief state school officers.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

On Tuesday, its officers accepted a decision by FINA members to ban high-tech swimsuits next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

An Arizona rancher was also killed this year -- probably,officials say, by a Mexican drug smuggler.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Owen is a lonely twelve-year-old boy who is mistreated by a big,mean boy at school.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

In the United States, a two-year study requested by Congress was released earlier this year.

VOA: special.2009.10.03