A few years ago, OhioHealth,a hospital chain, decided to help its overweight employees slim down and lead a healthier life style.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

That's right. Louisiana Slim he's sometimes called. Yes, Sir. I sure have met Big Slim. And he used to work in the east Texas oil fields?"

对，人们有时叫他路易斯安那的细杆，是的先生我肯定,遇见过，他过去是不是经常在得克萨斯州东部的油田工作？“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They've just heard a report from a reconnaissance team that scoped out the land, and that they think that the chances of conquering the Promised Land are very, very slim.

他们刚从侦探小组,那里收到一份侦查地形的报告，他们认为征服应许之地的,希望，非常，非常的渺茫。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Slim composed 12 songs for the album, and co-wrote two more with seasoned Nashville songwriter Gary Nicholson.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

In this scene Big Slim Hazard is an American type, just as Mississippi Gene is himself.

这一幕中细杆哈查德是个典型的美国人，就和密西西比的吉恩他自己一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Slim recorded his most recent albums in Nashville, where,according to Slim, co-writing is a common,everyday practice.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Initial results show Mr.Maliki's State of Law bloc with a slim overall lead over former prime minister Iyad Allawi and his secular Iraqiya faction.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

So, Sal is convinced--he wants to be convinced; he desperately wants to be convinced--that Mississippi Gene knows Big Slim Hazard. Let's look at another example on page 59.

所以萨尔信服了，他想要被说服;,他极其渴望被说服，很愿意相信吉恩,认识细杆哈查德，让我们来看59页上的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Slim enjoys being in the spotlight every once in awhile, but he says true happiness comes from making music day in and day out.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And he's talking with Mississippi Gene. This is at the bottom of 26: There is something so indubitably reminiscent of Big Slim Hazard in Mississippi Gene's demeanor that I said, "Do you happen to have met a fellow called Big Slim Hazard somewhere?"

他在和密西西比的吉恩讲话，在26页下面：,现在，密西西比的吉恩的行为举止有些地方真切地,让我想起关于细杆的哈查德的往事，我问：“你是否在那里碰巧遇到过一个叫细杆哈查德的人“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Slim is currently performing on his "No Paid Holidays" tour across the U.S.,Canada and Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

This is Sal's story about Big Slim Hazard, a hobo that he once knew.

这是Sal和大长哈泽的故事，哈泽是他认识的一个流浪汉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Slim,whose real name is Bill Homans, has come a long way from his job as a heavy equipment operator for the U.S.Army during the Vietnam War.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

His follow-up stint as a watermelon farmer in Oklahoma earned him the nickname Watermelon Slim, a name he also gives to his own special brand of music.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Country,blues and rock dominate Watermelon Slim's latest release,Ringers.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The Liberal Democrats can't form a majority government on their own either and the Conservative chances of doing that, which were slim when the campaign started, have receded - they're the main victim of the surge in support for the Liberal Democrats that occurred last week."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23