The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

When you call something "scripture," what you simply mean is it's some kind of writing that is taken by somebody as holy and authoritative,somehow sacred.

当你称某样东西为圣典“,那你指的是某一述著,对某人来说是神圣，权威，不可侵犯的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It was not until the nineteen seventies that Henrietta Lacks' family learned that her cells had been taken and used by scientists.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

What makes something scripture,though,is that it's taken to be authoritative and holy by some particular community.

圣典之所以为圣典是由于,它被某一特定团体当作是权威而神圣的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Is there any question that, by the laws of war, property -- both of enemies and friends may be taken when needed.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

And that a burden was taken off the South by the loss of that Vietnam War.

越南战争惨败,卸下了南方的重负

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

They basically all failed and were taken over by foreign banks after the Mexican Crisis, so that's a sign of how things can go amiss.

他们已然全数破产并于,墨西哥银行业危机,之后被外国银行接管,这正是事态发展恶劣程度的标志

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

India's environment minister praised the united position taken by India, China,Brazil and South Africa.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

And those things taken together have pushed the growth rate by couple of percentage points beyond what India's trade growth rate has been in the last 25 years.

所有因素综合起来,大大促进了印度经济的发展,使印度的贸易增长额,较过去的25年,有了显著增长。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

By June, fighting had already taken place between colonial forces and Britain.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Because a lot of these ships go blub on the way back, or are taken by pirates and stuff like that, they say, "We want to insure this ship.

因为有很多船只在回程的时候会损坏,或是被海盗之类的匪徒抢劫,他们说,"我们想为这船提供保险

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Political opponents and the press criticized actions taken by President Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And it was taken the lab of Donald Olding Hebb at McGill University by a couple of graduate students, post-doc of that time, James Olds and Peter Milner And what they've done?

地点是麦吉尔大学的唐纳德·赫布试验室,由当时的两名博士后研究生，詹姆斯·奥尔兹和皮特·米尔纳拍摄,他们做什么了？

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

But I knew he would need my aid. I found my weapons, placed a saddle on my horse and started as fast as possible down the trail taken by Powell.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

On the one hand, he says, his reference to a divine mission, he explicitly says there, will be taken by his audience as being just another instance of Socratic irony and insincerity.

一方面，他表示自己所指的神授任务，他很明白地表示，将会被听众误以为只是另一轮的,苏格拉底式讽刺及伪善。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Later,he said: "If it were not for the high office I held, I would have taken him by the seat of the pants and the nape of the neck and thrown him out the window."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And after the war that policeman directed traffic at the market every Saturday, and the widow walked by and saw this man, knowing he had denounced her husband who had been taken away and killed.

战后那个警察,每周六在市场指挥交通,那个寡妇每次走过都能看见这人,知道是他揭发了他丈夫,然后被抓走遇害

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

OSSIE DAVIS: "Baseball should be taken seriously by the colored player -- and in this effort of his great ability will open the avenue in the near future wherein he may walk hand in hand with the opposite race in the greatest of all American games -- baseball."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Now, there are Greek traditions that are taken seriously by the Greeks that suggest that kings ruled these cities from the beginning and they have lists of kings with their names, and sometimes with stories attached to them.

古希腊人有他们一些严格执行的传统,这些传统暗示这些城邦一开始就由国王统治的,他们甚至有国王的名字的列表,有时还有关于国王的传说

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But many investors worry that austerity measures taken by Greece,Portugal and Spain will stifle growth in Europe and lead to recession.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

So, these two facts taken together, thin slices and the power of first impressions, means that just by a brief exposure to somebody it shapes so much of how you're going to think about them in the future.

综合考虑这两方面，薄片效应和第一印象的影响，意味着只需要短暂地接触对方,就能决定,你以后对他们有什么看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says local people are good-hearted but gullible, and have been taken advantage of by the Red Shirts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Instead,one of them gets kidnapped or has to go off to war or captured by pirates, and she's taken off by pirates and sold into slavery, and she goes all the way around the Mediterranean, and the young man follows her around the Mediterranean in chapter after chapter after chapter.

相反，其中一人会被绑架,或者参军打仗，或者被海盗俘虏，女方被海盗掳走，卖作奴隶，她会一路在地中海四处转辗，男方会追随她走遍地中海,就这样一章又一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Mr.Zelaya announced his return to Tegucigalpa on Monday, three months after he was seized by security forces and taken out of the country by airplane.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

The existence of that play shows to all of us just how seriously Socrates was taken by the greatest of his contemporaries and Aristophanes was along with Sophocles and Euripides and others among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.

这剧本的存在让我们所有人了解到,当代大师有多看重苏格拉底,包括亚里斯多芬尼斯,还有索夫克里斯,尤里庇狄思等大家,及其它伟大的希腊剧作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Those and related issues will be taken up by President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders next week at their summit in France and Germany.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

You can see their strengths and weaknesses." Similar photos taken by Francis Gary Powers constituted espionage for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07