"This is because such failure, if it were allowed to occur, would have serious negative consequences for generations to come."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But he said it is still providing training and guidance to extremist elements in various countries and remains a serious threat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

It is a comic novel and as such very serious.

这虽然是部关于一个,却不失严肃。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He said it is a serious international problem that should be addressed broadly and can not be solved entirely by military means.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

It is an understanding that cannot be achieved without a serious examination of the western experience.

如果不仔细研究西方历史的发展经历,是不可能有这种认知的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It is been a tough journey, first,just to convince people that we should be regarded as serious candidates.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The Fed is taking on a serious risk in doing this because these assets that it takes on in exchange for Treasury securities could fail.

美联储这样做很有风险,因为这些他们作为国库证券交换来的,资产可能是个烂摊子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said it is now in the best interest of Israelis to make a serious attempt to make peace with the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

In many ways for Aristotle as it is for every student of politics the most serious the most difficult issue one confronts is the problem of faction.

从很多方面看来，无论是对亚里士多德,还是每位政治系的同学而言,最令人最感严肃,与严重的问题,是派系的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But another entity, the U.N.-supervised Election Complaints Commission, is ordering a partial recount and says it is investigating hundreds of serious fraud allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

So a serious thing, a lot of people get put off by notation, it looks scarier than it is, there's nothing going on here except for notation at this point.

很多人面对符号往往都望而却步,看起来它比这个更可怕,而在这里,其实仅仅是符号而已

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It is why they dismissed the results from 83 polling stations so of course we have concerns about very serious allegations of fraud."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

It's thought that that is a serious error because it destroys trust in the currency.

这被认为是一个严重的错误,因为它会摧毁人们对货币的信任程度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Tuesday marks the eighth day of climate talks and with world leaders arriving, analysts say it is time to make serious progress with the major issues.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"Iran is trying to gain nuclear weapons. And if nothing serious, nothing dramatic will be done by the West,it will get there in a year or two,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Some argue it is diverting discussion from more serious problems, like the economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

The survey,conducted with ActionAid Ghana, found what it said were serious threats to livelihood and food security Kingsley Ofei Nkansah is general secretary of Ghana's Agricultural Workers' Union.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"It is a very serious crime, it is also a moral outrage.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"What was told in Tbilisi,I think, that as far as it is not connected to any real moves made by the Obama administration it is nothing serious or the Kremlin."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Mr.Major says it is imperative for the inquiry to determine whether Blair's cabinet knew that there were serious doubts about whether there actually were any weapons of mass destruction in the weeks and months ahead of the invasion.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to talk directly to the Israeli public and make it clear that they are serious and this old game that we've been playing for many years of this so-called peace process that does not lead to anything is over,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

But no matter where the conflict is or what it's about, if you're serious about peace, you can't take as final the first 'no,' the second 'no' or even the hundredth 'no.'" In her statement, Secretary Clinton promised an "unwavering" U.S.commitment to a two-state solution, based on 1967 lines with agreed land swaps, that will create an independent and viable Palestinian state and an Israel with secure and recognized borders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25