The races which would suffer most under a literacy test would be those with which the English-speaking people have never united, and who are most different from the great majority of the people of the United States."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

We are not in a country that mandates theology in terms of its constitutional law or its governance, you never gonna have the institutionalization of 5 daily prayers and things like that, people would be penalized.

我们所在的国家并没有将宗教,写进宪法或者法律法规里，你永远不会将每天五次祷告之类的事情,形成制度规范，这对人们不公。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

However, their biological relatives in Mexico would presumably have that same risk, but it would never be manifested if they're not exposed to what some have called a toxic food and physical activity environment.

而且,他们远在墨西哥的血缘亲属,可能也面临同样风险,但他们面临着所谓的有毒食物和活动环境,这个说法就不会得到证实

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We're glad to be a part of it." It is a day Darlene Garner and Candy Holmes thought would never come.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It was really about these two people would ordinarily never come together who get thrown together and have to navigate how to be together.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

President Obama says he never had any doubts that closing Guantanamo would be difficult and complex.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21