"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility Ca recognition on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

VOA: special.2009.01.24

We can think about these things; our mind can grasp them, but they're not to be found in this world.

我们可以思考这些东西,我们的心灵可以感受它们,但是在现实世界中我们找不到

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Whatever the number two is, it's something that our mind can grasp but isn't actually in the physical world.

不管数字2是什么,它是心灵可以掌握的东西,而在物质世界中却不存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And that we need to be leading on not only for the betterment of our nations,but the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

There is in Frost no God, no transcendental source of guidance or consolation, nothing out there in the world but the material conditions of our circumstances.

在弗罗斯特的诗里，没有上帝，没有卓越的指引和安慰，这个世界里什么都没有,除了我们生活环境的物质条件。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Somebody said world peacewas in our hands, but all I did was play Ping-Pong.

VOA: standard.other

This is how this logic goes -- we are all familiar with this: our body remains to molder in the earth or welter in the ocean , but our incorporeal spirit rises to heaven where it can enjoy an ethereal, a bodiless, world of eternity.

就是这种逻辑--我们都熟悉这个：,我们的肉体在地下或是海底归于腐朽,但灵魂却会升入天堂,在那里享受无形的永生。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Today,as an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

We don't have to make up our minds in advance whether it was a real world or a completely fantastic one, but at least let's see if we can describe what world it looks like.

我们不必事先考虑这是一个,真实的抑或虚幻的世界,但至少要知道我们能否描述这个世界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It is absolutely imperative that America takes leadership, working with not just our Russian counterparts but countries all around the world, to reduce and ultimately eliminate the dangers that are posed by nuclear weapons,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

But we don't have that, so we're going to use something on our CDs by the world famous sitarist, Ravi Shankar.

但是我们没有请到,那么,我们就使用,世界著名锡塔尔琴演奏家的CD吧,拉维·香卡

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It is because of the heroism, the calm under pressure,the grace with which these three gentlemen operated, but also the entire NASA family that was able to, at great risk oftentimes and with great danger, was somehow able to lift our sights not just here in the United States, but around the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

So, here's just one more case where Yale helped to straighten out the but you notice it wasn't done by a Yale faculty member, we engage in confusing the world, but our alumni do a much better job and that's what happened here.

因此 这只是耶鲁帮助人们,正确看待世界的又一个实例罢了,但要注意,这并不是耶鲁的教员做的,我们仍然在一个困扰的世界奔波,但我们的毕业生们做得更好,就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"We have a moral imperative to do this. We are the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world, the great economic leader of the developed world, but the only one that does have access to quality, affordable health care for our people, and we intend to do so,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04