It also needed a canal across Central America so the Navy could sail quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Whereas, 27% of whites are reading at a low level, 22% of Asian-Pacific kids are reading at low level.

也处于低水平，然而，27%的白人孩子阅读能力很差，而22%亚太地区的孩子阅读能力很差。

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like Noe Valley or Castro, Pacific Heights, Laurel Hill, they're all like really prestigious neighborhoods.

诺伊谷、卡斯楚区、太平洋岗、劳勒希尔山区都是很有名的社区。

美国的不动产市场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

They already held Siberia and they reached the Pacific Ocean in the 1640s.

他们已经控制了西伯利亚,在15世纪40年代,其势力已经到达太平洋西岸

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

While he was still in Luxembourg, just before World War II broke out, he emigrated to the United States and finished his career in the Pacific Northwest where he helped make huge quantities of titanium.

他一直住在卢森堡，在二次世界大战爆发前，他移民到了美国,后半生在太平洋西北部,他制备了大量的钛结束了他的事业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

"South Pacific."

南太平洋“

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The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

And there's also the venue where, currently South Pacific is playing and that's a Broadway show.

还有一个地方最近有南太平洋音乐表演，那可是百老汇的表演哦。

纽约的音乐厅 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said the South would accept nothing less than extending the Missouri compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Also Lower Pacific Heights on Fillmore Street has a store called Crossroads that I like.

菲尔莫尔街上有一家店叫十字路口，我很喜欢。

旧金山的时尚达人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This wet air is then carried by trade winds to the normally rainy areas of the western Pacific, near the Equator.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

You may ask why Asian-Pacific children have better reading skills.

你也许会问为何亚太地区的孩子,会有更好的阅读技能。

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So are the coastal cities of Santa Monica and Malibu, where people like to ride surfboards on the Pacific Ocean waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Napoleon thought the natural frontier was the Pacific Ocean.

而拿破仑认为自然疆界是太平洋

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All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

For many years, people had dreamed of building a canal across Central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

About two years after a solar maximum, the Pacific experiences conditions similar to El Nino the opposite of La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president."

VOA: special.2009.11.21

The problem is especially common along the west coast of Africa and in some ports in Asia and the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The only detail is a small stream of water running through the middle of the square towards the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The representative from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu made an emotional appeal for a treaty with legal force.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Murray Strauss from the University of New Hampshire worked with Mallie Paschall from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

Real La Nina events have been linked with cooler than normal temperatures on the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2011.05.10