The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

For Hobbes, Aristotle taught the dangerous doctrine of republican government that was seen to be practiced particularly during the Cromwellian Period in England, during the civil war.

对贺伯斯而言，亚里士多德教授,共和政府的危险教义,而那被视为,是英国克伦威尔时期所盛行，当时仍在英国内战时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Why does there have to be any type of a civil marriage?

我们为什么要采取公证结婚这种形式呢？

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right of every American "is the right to be free from domestic violence."

VOA: special.2009.02.28

One answer might be to extend greater toleration to civil dissidents like Socrates.

其中一个答案可能是,提高对公民抗拒者的容忍度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Professional writers who plagiarize can be taken to civil court and ordered to pay damages.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For the most part Deuteronomy doesn't really contain much in the way of civil law. It tends to focus on the moral-religious prescriptions kind of the apodictic law in Israel--and the few civil laws that are there tend to be reworked in line with Deuteronomy's humanity.

在申命记中的大部分中并不饱含民法的内容,它倾向于关注宗教道德的规定,某种以色列人的绝对的律法，而民法的存在,倾向于和申命记中的人道主义保持一致。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The lawyers,the opposition, the civil society is going to be in the streets, although they [i.e.,authorities in Pakistan have started mass arrests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

We set up--this is not a new idea, this goes back to China thousands of years ago, but it started to be widely done-- So you had a Civil Service exam that established your competence.

我们建立了，这不是什么新主意，可以追溯到几千年前的中国，但这次开始广泛地实施开来-,你得参加公务员考试来考核你的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We really do have to be very careful about trying people in civil courts, in giving them a status beyond what is wanted,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

The other is that some places where the disease occurs the governments are not stable, or there might be civil unrest or civil wars and that makes it very difficult to orchestrate giving vaccines when there's other things happening in the country that are of more immediate concern.

另一个原因是,一些疾病发生地区,当地的政局不那么稳定,或者有动乱和内战,当在一个国家内发生许多,突发应急事件的时候,疫苗的分派发放会变得非常困难

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Critics and opposition parties say the government must draw lessons from the Bhopal disaster and modify the controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill to ensure that India will be able to hold private companies responsible for any mishap.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10