Here in the United States, stand-alone record stores have given way to such alternatives as digital downloading which now accounts for about 20 percent of all recorded music sales.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

and tries to marshal in the process of working his will in the world, to make his way in it, to earn his living, to stand on his own two feet.

在完成这世上他的意志的时候他也试图整理，用这种方式生活，自食其力。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

To begin to answer this question you might say even begin to think about it in the right way requires that we stand back from Aristotle's text for a while and ask some fundamental questions about it.

若要开始回答这个问题,你也甚至可以说,开始以正确的方式思考这个问题,需要我们,暂时放下亚里士多德的大作,回头提问一些基本的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Both sons look back with pride at their fathers. Both are also working to overcome suspicions that stand in the way of renewed U.S.-Russian cooperation to meet challenges that could confront their children.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07