"This is a rhino, a wonderful rhino from South Africa, a very important animal."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

You got seven guys behind you; that's not even an option and that's a very important aspect of the phalanx.

你后面有七个战友,这甚至没有选择,而这也是方阵非常重要的一个方面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some people believe that spending money on an advertisement is more important than making a quality product.

有的人相信多花钱做广告比生产质量好的产品更重要。

广告和价格的关系 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

That's probably as important a decision as placing it, as deciding which direction to hit, and it turns out to matter.

踢球的力度与射门的方向,这两者是同样重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"But then it became so affecting and really important as far as recognizing a wounded veteran like Bill Campbell and the dog that really has saved him and the inmate that trained the dog.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Oil is a very important asset, ... so we want to compute what that-- so now we have lots of inputs.

石油是一种重要的资产，我们想计算-,现在我们有许多参数。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The service operates much like a savings bank which is important, because plenty of Kenyans do not have bank accounts.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Cities like Gdansk, which we tend to forget about, unfortunately, which is a very important port then and still now.

像格达斯克这样的城市,也就渐渐淡出了人们的视野,而其实,它在当时和现在都仍是,非常重要的港口

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Mrs.Shriver said that the Special Olympics proved a very important fact: that exceptional children with mental retardation can be exceptional athletes.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

And the reason for this, and this is a very important point about the photoelectric effect, and the point here is that the electrons here are acting as particles, you can't just add those energies together.

这个现象的原因是，这是光电效应非常重要的一个论点,这个论点就是电子,在这里是粒子行为，你不能仅仅把这些能量加在一起。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Brown moved his men and the most important of his hostages into a small brick building at the armory.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And then we're going to turn to the question of efficiency. How do we measure efficiency of algorithms? Which is going to be a really important thing that we want to deal with, and we'll start it today, it's undoubtedly going to take us a couple more lectures to finish it off.

然后我们会回头继续讨论效率问题,我们如何计算算法的效率？,我们处理这些问题的时候,最重要的事情是什么？,我们今天要去讨论这个问题，毫无疑问我们要用,挺多节课来学习这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now that we know about grapes and geography, we have some important tools for understanding the label on a bottle of wine.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Clemente's work helping poor people, especially those in Puerto Rico, became a very important part of his life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A recent report shows that the small organ has a much more important job in the body's defense system than once believed.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The art of dream interpretation places a very important role in this story, And dream interpretation was a developed science, Particularly in Egypt, and the other parts of Mesopotamia, but the Egyptians were known in the ancient world as dream interpreters.

解梦术在这个故事中有非常重要的作用，解梦术当时是发达的科学，尤其在埃及和美索不达米亚其它地区，但是在埃及人在古代就是以解梦人而被人所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is cut with a list of important events marking the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

But there is a second sense for him and, in some ways, a more important sense in which he says the polis is by nature.

但他还有另一种说法,且就某种程度看来是更重要的说法,他说城邦就是自然演变。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

His research suggests that trust between people is more important in countries with a weak legal system.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Our bodies have mechanisms like that, that mainly use the principle of negative feedback in order to control the parameters that are important for life within a certain range.

我们的身体有着与之类似的机制,主要依靠负反馈原理来,将与生命息息相关的指标控制在一定范围

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Now, here is a very important message, which is the following.

接下来将有一个非常重要的信息

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

She says another important effort is a bill proposed this year in Congress: the Community Choice Act.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The scientists on Antarctica know better than anyone about the effects of pollution and human behavior on this important treasure of a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

In Spain, obviously Madrid, Madrid is the capital but Barcelona is terribly, terribly important, and was always a much more economically important city than the kind of command economy that was Madrid.

在西班牙,显然是马德里了,尽管马德里是首都,但巴塞罗那也,相当重要,巴塞罗那的经济地位要比,马德里这个所谓的经济中心更为重要

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选