They finally agreed to send federal troops to Chicago -- where the strike had started -- to enforce federal postal laws.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

The '70s were a terrible time to invest in stocks, a bull market had started in 1982.

0年代股票投资一直萎靡不振,牛市在1982年才露端倪

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Just had, you know, the local driving range and then started doing a bit more on the national level, playing,

一开始，你知道，就是在当地的练习场打，然后开始打很多国家级的，

高尔夫俱乐部的回忆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In the late nineteenth century, Cesario Chavez, Cesar's grandfather, had started the Chavez family farm after escaping slavery on a Mexican farm.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

For example, we had a recession that started here -I believe that was '48--and then it ended in '49.

比如我们来看这一次衰退,大概从48年开始,于49年结束

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King,Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Also,the South had started the Civil War which had caused so much death and destruction.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

They pay you money, we had a lot of very famous, very prominent customers, but all of a sudden, we started to compete with every one of them. It's quite risky.

他们付你钱，那时我们有许多有名的，重量级的客户，但突然间，客户变成了对手，这么做风险很大。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

When her health improved, she decided to leave Buckland, the school she had started.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

And unsurprisingly-- since I announced this was going to be the result before the class had barely gotten started-- I don't think any of these arguments work.

我在课程还没正式开始的时候,就已经说过了,我认为这些论证都站不住脚

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She soon began writing music and by age five had started playing the violin.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Pavlov, when he started this research, had no interest at all in learning.

在研究的最初，巴甫洛夫，对学习行为毫无兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A few days later, President Polk asked Congress to recognize that war had started.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

When I first started teaching this course and had six students, I remember one day sitting in Leverett House, having lunch by myself and one of the students comes in and says, "can I join you?" "Sure." we have lunch.

当我开始教授这门课时,有六名学生，我记得有一天坐在学生宿舍里，独自用餐，一名学生走进来说，“能一起吃吗？““当然“，我们共进午餐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He wanted to continue the work Percival had started.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Okay. So what happened next was he then started to run that faster, twice as fast as it had been before, changing rate of harmonic pattern. Okay?

好的，比以前的快两倍，比以前的快两倍，改变了泛音的方式，改变了泛音的方式，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Cuban rebels had started a fight for independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Now, so there's probably a number of people in this room, so when I first started teaching this class 20 years ago, everybody in the room had had chickenpox.

现在,这间教室中的很多人也许,在二十年前,我第一次教这门课的时候,当时教室里的每个人都得过水痘

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"These are people who are already receiving WFP food,actually they were receiving assistance through a voucher program that we had started earlier this year in support of these people and also of the market there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

.. And I begin by remembering... this is the way I begin most of my economic thoughts ...a conversation I had with Milton Friedman And Milton started with the position, first of all, what he wanted to do was decrease government spending.

我记得。,我习惯这么思考经济问题了,我记得曾和米尔顿·弗里德曼谈过一次话,刚开始，米尔顿的立场是，有一点先说明，他其实是希望,政府削减财政支出的。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

A UNHCR official based in South Sudan confirmed to VOA that it had started receiving a steady flow of refugees from the Central African Republic, adding to the large number of Congolese refugees who were displaced by the group.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The press started writing a lot about Trans fats and then the government required Trans fats to be shown on labels, and then the food industry really had to pay attention and a lot of them started taking out Trans fats.

新闻开始大量报道反式脂肪,政府则要求内含则必须在标签上注明,这才真正引起了食品业的重视,许多厂商开始剔除反式脂肪

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains. She started clenching her jaw and grinding her teeth at night.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

I just started this year. I had to audition to be a tour guide

我今年才刚刚开始。要想成为导游，首先要面试。

丰富多彩的社团活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild terror, and covered her face with her hands?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

I had made a few bucks playing poker and that's how I started with about eight, ten thousand dollars and I made all this money by borrowing at 90%.

我打扑克牌赚了一些钱,那就是我怎么用八九千美元开始,我的事业的,我用来赚钱的资本都是用以高达90%利率借来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Here is a cartoon which actually illustrates a classic experiment by some physiologists who for some reason had a dog's brain opened up and started shocking different parts of the brain.

这是张卡通图画,实际上描绘了一个由生理学家,所做过的经典实验,出于某种原因,他们切开一只狗的大脑,对不同的大脑区域进行电击

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选