Pollster Peter Brown says that for now Americans seem patient as they await the result of the president's efforts to revive the ailing U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

It turns out the U.S. and Jamaica are the only two places on Earth now that use the Fahrenheit scale.

事实上现在地球上,只有美国和牙买加这两个国家,还在使用华氏温标。

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The university that I go to now is U of M and it's a very large campus.

我现在上的大学是明尼苏达大学，校园非常大。

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But,he adds,although the TTP and al-Qaida have different goals, they have been growing closer, and that U.S.officials now believe there is a terrorist syndicate in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Now, we saw before, or really I should say we accepted before, that for an ideal gas, u was a function of temperature only.

我们已经看到,或者说我们已经接受这样一个事实，即理想气体的内能只和温度有关。

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"I think in a year's time,you're going to see a much closer U.S.-Saudi relationship than you have now, and I think it's good that the president is stopping off,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Now, assuming that we trust the government-- I think the U.S. Government has never defaulted on its debt-- we'd take that as a riskless return.

假设我们信任政府-,假设美国政府从未拖欠债务-,可以把它当作无风险回报。

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"Now that gets mutated into a conspiracy theory where the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

But it wasn't --the point was, it was the same scandal that we saw in the U.S., U.K., Germany and now France; it was the same source.

要点是,这与发生在美国和英国的丑闻一样,现在又发生在法国,它们都是源自同一事件

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"The new treaty that the U.S.and Russia are now negotiating would drop these levels even lower to somewhere between 1,500 and 1,675 deployed strategic warheads and somewhere probably below 800 strategic nuclear delivery systems,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

People never thought of insurance as the same as a bank, but since this is relatively recently-- that was only nine years ago--at this time, it means that we are now seeing an expansion of our banking system in the U.S.

人们从来不认为保险和银行是一回事,但是从那法案之后它们就是差不多的了,这只不过是九年前的法案,但是现在,这意味着在美国,银行系统得到了扩张

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He expressed reluctance to comment on American domestic affairs, but suggested that a renewal of the now-expired U.S.ban on assault weapons would be helpful in curbing the flow of high-powered armaments to Mexican drug cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

Now, you know with constant volume, H now it's not going to be delta H that's U straightforward to measure, it's going to be dealt u, all right.

好，现在你们知道在体积恒定的条件下，我们得到的不是Δ,我们直接测量到的是Δ,好，但这基本上也是一样的。

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"David Miliband said a while back, having said 54 times that in answer to parliamentary questions that nobody had gone through Diego Garcia, he said on the 55th time that actually the U.S.had now told him that people had gone through Diego Garcia.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

People have long thought that these kinds of things happen only in Japan but that's not true at all; it's happening right now in the U.S.

人们一直认为,这种事情只会在日本发生,但这种想法一点儿也不对；,它现在正发生在美国。

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He also sees diplomacy as not succeeding and insufficient to persuade Iran or to stop Iran from going nuclear, And I think he will be showing his frustration to President Obama that what the U.S.administration is trying to do now is too late and not enough."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Now that the decision has been made to move forward with what the review called an "integral" part of U.S.defenses, the second ranking U.S.military officer, General James Cartwright, says the American military commands will spend some time figuring out how to use the various aspects of the system in their regions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26