In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Oh--but if you can meet with our teaching fellows over there, they're gonna ask the legal department to see you next so Alright, I think we're all set.

哦，但是如果你遇到我们的助教，他们将让法务部看下你,我想我们大家准备好了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And if you could just meet up with the teaching fellows for our little -- our legal department, that would be great.

如果你们可以和研究生助教碰面,在我们的小法律部，那将是非常好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But last October, Google reached a one hundred twenty-five million dollar legal settlement to also make parts of some copyrighted books available.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

There is a legal release form-- we'll talk about it in a minute--about the videoing.

里面有一张授权书,是关于视频采集的,我们一会再说这个

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Therefore,said the high court, the sugar trust was legal and did not violate the anti-trust law.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In Alexandria, the local Egyptian population resented the Jews because they were recognized as a legal ethnicity in Alexandria, and they weren't given complete privileges of the Greeks in-- Alexandria was a Greek city.

比如在亚历山大港，当地埃及人仇视犹太人,因为他们在当地是合法少数民族，而埃及人却没有任何希腊特权。。。,亚历山大港是希腊式城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

On September 15th, Lehman Brothers, a 158 year-old investment bank, sought legal protection from its creditors.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

We have to realize that people don't read all the fine print and don't understand -if you have a precisely written contract in legal language, maybe they don't get it.

大众不愿阅读也无法理解,那些晦涩的法律条文,一份由法律术语写成的合同,对大众来讲无异于一部天书

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They said this was likely a result of the legal drinking age being raised to twenty-one and other policy changes aimed at reducing underage drinking.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This time, when only legal votes were counted, many of the pro-slavery candidates were defeated.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

We have this one parting gift-- just a little legal waiver for the cameras if you would.

我这有份临别赠礼-,准许我们使用您肖像权的声明，希望您笑纳。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

These include the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Cesar E.Chavez Foundation.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

The reason the mafia thrives in countries where it's hard to write legal contracts-- let's say some new parts of the former Soviet Union or some parts of Africa the reason the mafia thrives in those environments, is that it substitutes for the law and enforces both legal and illegal contracts.

黑恶势力在那些,书面协议不受保护国家不断壮大,比如前苏联新成员国 或者非洲,为什么黑恶势力在这些地方发展壮大,因为这是法律强制力的补充,它维系所有合同,不管是不是合法的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Slavery was legal in the Confederate States of America -- the South.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The idea, of course, is that we have a legal entity--a corporation-- that issues shares that are either given to people or purchased by people and the idea is that shares represent contributions.

最初的做法是,一个法人实体即公司,发行股票,然后发放或卖给人们,理念就是,股票象征着贡献

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And same-sex marriage could soon become legal in the city of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Now, there are different kinds of hedge funds -there's a lot of legal complexity here but a 3c1 hedge fund is limited to ninety-nine investors.

如今有各种各样的对冲基金,...其中牵涉了许多复杂的法律条文,比如3C1对冲基金,投资人数上限为99人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She says Turkey has approved many legal reforms as part of its efforts to join the European Union -- but these have not necessarily been put into action.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The ruling is non-binding; it does not have legal force.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

The pro-slavery forces controlled the legal government.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

It's not the first time CSPI has threatened legal action against junk food makers -- and the strategy has worked before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Officials in Tokyo have expressed confidence they would win any legal confrontation, which threatens to destabilize relations between the Asia-Pacific partners.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

But his legal advisors in Belgrade say he will not attend Tuesday's hearings until he is granted his several-month extension.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Grant says the alliance will develop an easy-to-use, on-line risk management program to help companies sort through a minefield of legal and environmental regulations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of bombing Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,Scotland, posted the 353-pages of legal arguments on the Internet Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Two pro-Thaksin governments since then were sidelined by legal measures, allowing Mr.Abhisit to come to power.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Historian Marc Masurovsky is co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (SAYING) Masurovsky often turns to Spiegler to discuss thorny legal and ethical questions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26