The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

To be in a state of purity simply means that one is qualified to contact the sacred: to enter the sacred precincts, to handle sacred objects, and so on.

处于纯洁的状态仅仅意味着有资格,去接触神圣，比如说进入圣地的周边地区，打理神圣的物件，等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

To be in a state of impurity simply means that one is not qualified to contact the sacred.

处于不纯洁的状态仅仅意味着,没有资格去接触神圣的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

If you are known or believed to be willing to fight, you are in a state of war.

如果别人认为你很想去打斗，你就陷入了战争状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"The law as it stands now in the State of Israel is to be commended because elected office is not a shelter for misdeeds,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.

这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Unidentified Obama administration officials on Wednesday were quoted as anticipating that negotiations on a final bill would not be complete until after the president's State of the Union Address in January, and could slip into February.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

All right. Now this is a wonderful example of the tension between having expectations, the expectation that someone will help Tony, and being in a state of suspense, not knowing who it will be.

好的，这是个很好的例子，来说明二者之间的张力,一个是有期望，期望有人会帮助托尼，另一个是处于一种悬念状态，不知道会是谁来帮托尼。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Obama administration officials have been quoted as saying they anticipate negotiations on a final bill would not be complete until after the president's State of the Union Address in January, and could slip even later into the new year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

For a lot of Protestants in the early seventeenth century, the word chastitycould also be used to refer to the state of what could be called married chastity: - married chastity was a type of bodily purity that could be extended -- -- or a spiritual purity as well -- that could be extended even into marriage.

对早期17世纪的新教徒来说，贞节这个词也可以用来,表示婚姻贞节：,婚姻贞节是一种可以延伸的身体上的纯洁-,同样也是一种精神的纯洁-,那种纯洁甚至可以延伸至结婚以后。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I think that is somewhat premature. We have said previously if you go back to what the European Union has said that we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state, but the conditions are not there as of yet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Just like u, we'd like to be able to express it in a way that allows us to calculate what happens only from equation of state data.

就像内能u一样，我们希望能够利用状态方程的数据,计算出其表达式,这些表达式能方便我们说出即将发生的过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Hobbes' members of a state of nature seem to be in a classic prisoner's dilemma problem.

霍布斯自然状态的命题,看起来像一个经典的囚徒困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is the philosopher's reliance on his own reason that frees him from the dangerous authority of the state and safeguards the individual from complicity in the injustice and evils that seem to be a necessary part of political life.

哲学家信赖自己的理智,因为那使他远离,危险的国家权威,并守护个体,不与不义及邪恶合流,那似乎已成政治生活的必备部份。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选