"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."

VOA: special.2009.09.12

In the second poem here, "I Looked Up From My Writing," the poet, the first person, is being interrupted at his desk at night.

在第二首诗中“从我的写作中来看“,诗人也是第一人称，夜晚在书桌前被打扰。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The first one was kind of, just like a meet up and like we grab lunch and then walked.

我和第一个相亲对象只是见了一次面，我们一起吃午餐，然后一起散步。

体验男女初次会面 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said they would rise up at the first sign of a leader who wished to break their chains.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

All right. So, let's pick up where we left off, first of all we're still on the hydrogen atom from Monday.

好，让我们从上次停下的地方讲起，我们还要讲周一讲的氢原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

So he said, I guess maybe it is my idea I was the first person to write it up.

我斗胆以为这也许是我的想法,有可能真是我第一个将其记录

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

And if I'm already in this habit, let my software, let my computer do that thinking for me and bubble up to the top of my attention what I should address first.

如果我已经有这样的习惯，让我的软件，或者电脑为我考虑这些事情，自动的把这,些邮件放到的最醒目的地方---最上面。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They do not know why da Vinci painted it, or how it ended up in the collection of French ruler Francis the First.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Because that for the first time, I kind of looked up and just like, wow, you know I have a team of engineers here and like a lot of smart people who can start building a lot of stuff in a different way that is currently being done.

因为我第一次经历这些，当我抬起头，看到一群聪明人在为我工作,他们正用独特的方式,创造新的事物，我顿时感到十分自豪。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

He became the first known American suicide bomber last October when he blew himself up in Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

Levels of happiness are essentially static; and anxiety levels and depression levels, as we talked about in the first class have gone up significantly.

幸福水平几乎是静止的;,焦虑水平和抑郁水平，正如第一堂课讲到的，有明显的加深。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He did not have much luck,though, the first time he went up to dunk the ball.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

So Ale, can we get this guy? Stand up first, the guy in red.

艾尔给穿红上衣的小伙子,让他回答

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They worked quickly to catch up. Less than a year later, on October first,nineteen fifty-eight, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration,or NASA, began operations.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

OK? And in fact, if you look at the code up here, and it's on your handout, the very first one, x 1, right here- if I could ask you to look at it-- is a piece of code to do it. And I'm less interested in the code than how we're going to analyze it, but let's look at it for a second.

实际上，如果你看看,你们课堂发的材料上面的代码，第一页上的，就是那-,大家请看看实现的这一部分代码,我不太关心,我们会怎么解释这个代码,首先让我们先看看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In nineteen forty-seven, eight theater groups showed up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

And that's why all those reactions, first of all, in some sense what I put up was kind of a trivial statement in actual fact saying they all happen spontaneously because I didn't specify what we were starting with exactly, what concentrations we were starting with.

首先这就是为什么所有的这些方程，在某种程度上,我举得这些例子说它们自发产生,这是一个琐碎的陈述,因为我没有说明，我们从什么地方开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The city's urban transportation system recently launched the first of up to five hydrogen buses.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

In fact, when I first started attending law school, a friend of mine came up to me after the second day of class,

事实上，当我第一次进入法律学校时，第二天下课后一个朋友过来找我，

在上西区 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The seven musicians produce a big sound, like in "Wake Up" from their first album,"Funeral."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

An automobile approaching with a souped-up audio system in it, and what sound do you hear at the very first?

一辆大声开着音响的汽车开来,最初,你会听到什么声音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Iser We may or may not have the lecture on Iser, but on Tuesday we'll be getting into the varieties of formalism and first we'll take up the American New Criticism.

我们将来可能有一讲会详细介绍，但下周二我们讲各种形式主义,首先是美国新批评。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

On February first, two thousand three, Columbia broke up as it reentered the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is the part of the Republic most likely to call up our own first amendment instincts.

理想国》的这一部份,是最像唤起,我国宪法第一修正案的天性的章节。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选