In the United States, holiday gift giving is important not only for the usual reasons, like showing friendship and love.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The whisper is not, Frost specifies, a "dream of the gift of idle hours.

弗罗斯特指出这些低语不是“闲散时间的白日梦“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But this does not stop him from working. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Excellent does not mean you are God's gift to philosophy .

出色也不是说你是上帝给哲学界的礼物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Not every campaign gift requires a judge's recusal, the court said, "but this is an exceptional case."

VOA: special.2009.06.12

That's not to say he wasn't a brilliant thinker, but here the gift of a good minds and good hands, like the two parts of the MIT logo: two parts rolled into one.

这并不是说他不是一个很好的思考家，但是好的大脑，好的动手能力，就像MIT的标志一样：,两者相结合。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

They can order online. Gift registries help the bride and groom get things they want and avoid things they do not want -- like three of the same gift.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Knowing what iambic pentameter is, is not a gift of birth, but rather something that comes through a little bit of practice, which means we have to work at it a little bit.

没有谁是生来就知道抑扬五音步格诗，是需要努力才能知道的，这说明我们必须在这个上面花点功夫。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

my grandmother gave me as a gift, "When I was ten, not a bicycle, not a baseball mitt or a bat, she gave me a framed engraving of the derringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate the president.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"It's going to affect the marine life. It's not only the fishing industry, the tourism industry, the hotel industry, the restaurants,the gift shops, transportation,taxis and so on All of that is being affected right now.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18