They were fun to read. Yet his books sometimes dealt with serious subjects including equality, responsibility and protecting the environment.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

It's the sage and serious doctrine of virginity that concludes the speech. It's clear that something's happened between 1634 and 1637.

它是总结演说,有关童贞的智慧而严肃的教义,很明显，在1634年到1637年间发生过什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She lived in New York for a short time, but she was afflicted with lupus, a very serious illness, and she died at the age of 39 in 1964.

她在纽约度过一段短暂的时光，但她饱受狼疮，一种严重疾病的折磨，最终逝世于1964年。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Most scientists agree that climate change is a serious problem that requires the attention of people and governments around the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

In these parts of the Politics Aristotle offers a serious challenge to existing Greek traditions and patterns of political education.

在这部份的《政治学》,亚里士多德对,当时的希腊政治教育传统与模式,提出严肃的挑战。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he was a serious newsman, and in nineteen fifty-two he led CBS' coverage of the national political conventions.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The report says malaria could be eliminated if countries are serious about using proven control measures like insecticides and bed nets.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Let's assume that you've won the lottery, and have serious money that you foolishly wish to invest in the stock market There are two basic strategies to choose from in investing.

让我们假设你赢了彩票，然后又一大笔钱,而你很傻的想要投资到股票中去,有两个投资策略,可以选择。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real, they are serious and they are many.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

And off he goes, and he sulks in his tent for the next nine books, and this turns out to be a serious problem for them.

然后他真就走了,他回到自己的帐篷收拾东西,他这一走 问题就大了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Studies have shown it can reduce the body's ability to fight disease and lead to serious health problems.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

And then measuring outcomes was as serious as the program itself.

调查结果非常重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Playing! The Lady in Black looked at them with serious eyes, and her mouth hardened at the corners.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Interestingly, she refuses to unfold for her audience the sage and serious doctrine of virginity, but she does anticipate what that doctrine of virginity would look like if she were to unfold it.

有趣的是，她拒绝向观众们,揭开智慧而严肃的童贞教义，但是她预想了如果她揭开,那么童贞的教义将会变成哪样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some of the most serious government attacks on personal rights took place in nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty.

VOA: special.2010.12.09

And this is again an extraordinary example of how the brain can give rise to the mind, and how things that go wrong with the brain can affect you in a serious way.

这又是一个说明大脑如何引起心理的,非常典型的例子,并且说明了大脑的损伤,将会严重影响我们的日常行为

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And,unlike seasonal flu, younger people have suffered many of the serious cases and deaths from the virus.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

And that's a serious concern but the fact that the government itself took the lead in bringing that point to public attention suggests in part government's electorate interest So one should not take this all in their mighty actions.

这是个重大问题,但政府自身把这个事实,揭示给大众,说明政府在考虑如何划分选区,才符合自身利益,所以人们不应该将,这种观点带入可能的行为中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The country had suffered a serious economic depression the year before, and jobs were difficult to find.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The patriarchal stories are clearly not the work of the Deuteronomist, and these stories must have had very longstanding traditional authority if they were adopted without serious modification by the Deuteronomist redactor some modification, but not serious.

那些宗法故事显然不是预言师的作品，这些故事必然经过了传统权威的检验,如果他们是未经更改直接引用的话,由那些预言编写者,这里有一些改动，但不是太多。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The new guidelines recognize that most cases are not serious and go away within a few days.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Plato seems to believe that each of us must choose somehow, must choose between one or the other of these two contenders for the most serious and worthwhile way of life.

柏拉图似乎相信,我们每个人都应选择，必需在这两种竞争概念中,做出选择,以求得严谨及值得过的人生。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And,unlike seasonal flu, younger people have suffered many of the serious cases and deaths from H1N1.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

That's the really important, serious line--certainly politically and in other ways as well.

这是非常重要的一条主线,政治和其他方面亦是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And again, Americans all around the country took note of this quiet,serious man who did such effective work in so many different kinds of situations.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

That is to say,the reward of good behavior the admiration and the honor that a hero gets, and the most serious punishment he can suffer is to be shamed in front of that community.

也就是说,对正面行为的犒赏,就是得到如英雄般的尊敬和仰慕,而最严厉的惩罚,就是在集体面前当众蒙羞

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Still,he says he worries that more people will avoid cooperating with the police, and that officers will have less time to fight more serious crimes.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

Ira,the writer,was quiet and serious.George,the musician, was outgoing -- the life of any party.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

And the side effects of the treatment can be serious, sometimes even causing death.

VOA: special.2010.04.07