The long-beaked echidna is an endangered animal that only lives north of Australia, on New Guinea and nearby islands.
VOA: special.2009.07.07
So all the shillings disappeared and the only coin left was the guinea.
所以,所有的先令就消失了,只剩下几尼作为唯一的硬币。
Then they implemented a rule that the guinea is worth twenty-one shillings.
于是政府就执行了一个新令,规定一个几尼值二十一个先令的价值。
in nineteen thirty-five. It was a study of the lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
So they had a guinea which they said was twenty shillings and then there were two coins either shillings or guineas that was the money at the time.
于是,他们就生产出了,一个等同于二十先令的几尼,所以出现了两种硬币,先令或是几尼,这是当时流行的货币。
She wrote that women have the major role in one group in New Guinea without causing any special problems.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
So it started to drift and people started to think I think a guinea is worth more than twenty shillings and the market price drifted up to twenty-one shillings.
所以,它的价值开始波动,人们开始考虑,我认为一个几尼的价值多于二十个先令的价格,于是市场价格就上升到二十一先令的价值上去了。
Over twenty months, he spent almost six thousand hours searching in a protected area in the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea.
VOA: special.2009.07.07
Then the relative price of gold versus silver shifted to the point that the gold with at the twenty-one shilling exchange rate the gold shilling was worth less the gold guinea was worth less than twenty-one shilling.
之后,金子相对于银子的相对价格,就移动到另一个值,在二十一个先令的兑换率下,金先令价值少于,金几尼的价值少于了二十一个先令的价值。
Or,he might show you one of many guinea fowl, which he jokingly says are also called "Chobe chickens."
VOA: special.2009.08.19
When they reached New Guinea, they were about to begin the most difficult part of the trip.
VOA: special.2010.05.26
They have spread into areas of Lofa County and Gbarpolu County, bordering Guinea and Sierra Leone.
VOA: special.2009.01.27
Not long after their New Guinea trip ended, Margaret Mead's marriage to Reo Fortune also ended.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
On September twenty-eighth, security forces attacked unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in Conakry,the capital of Guinea.
VOA: special.2009.10.24
President Theodore Roosevelt's family had a pony,a sheep,a bird,guinea pigs,dogs,cats,rats and a snake.
VOA: special.2009.02.23
Three hours after leaving New Guinea, Amelia sent back a radio message.
VOA: special.2010.05.26
The two studied the people of several areas of New Guinea.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
Another honor came from a village in New Guinea.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
They went to New Guinea to work together.
VOA: special.2010.01.17
Guinea Bissau has Africa's second lowest rating on the U.N.'s Human Development Index measuring life expectancy,education, and standards of living.
VOA: standard.2009.04.24
He told a rally this past weekend that no pressure can prevent the military from playing its role in Guinea's future.
VOA: standard.2009.08.25
"I think Papua New Guinea is perhaps the most difficult country in the world to mount a national HIV response.
VOA: standard.2009.04.04
Human rights organizations have reported more than 50 cases of sorcery-related deaths in Papua New Guinea in 2008.
VOA: standard.2009.04.04
Among them are Somalia, where the transitional government is under siege by hardline Islamic rebels, Guinea and Guinea Bissau, Madagascar and Darfur.
VOA: standard.2009.07.02
French officials say they have no immediate plans to evacuate an estimated 2,500 French nationals living in Guinea.
VOA: standard.2009.10.16
The residents left their homes near the country's border with Guinea-Bissau after recent increases in attacks by Senegalese rebels in the area.
VOA: standard.2009.10.05
Guinea's ruling military junta, led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, gave a far lower death toll of 57.
VOA: standard.2009.10.16
(Recording) Keita says the 28th of September is now more than just a symbolic day simply marking the anniversary of Guinea's independence.
VOA: standard.2009.10.28
That coalition says it will not take part in any transitional authority that includes members of Guinea's military.
VOA: standard.2009.12.07
Among other decisions, they announced an arms embargo and sanctions against leaders of the military junta in the West African country of Guinea.
VOA: standard.2009.10.27
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