Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says the cancellation was not a snub, but was caused by the prime minister's obligation to parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

As we've been talking about, I think we have a strong obligation to save life where we can do so.

就像我们一直所讲的，我想我们,有责任尽我们所能来拯救生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I conclude that we do have an obligation, to give significantly to help the world's poor.

我认为，我们的确有责任，慷慨地捐赠，来帮助世界上的贫困人口。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The president told the audience at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville that the United States has an obligation to its latest war dead.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Why should I obey the law ? and what are the limits if any to my obligation?

为何要遵守法律,我的义务界限在哪？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

White House officials say the president has a clear obligation to assess the effectiveness of U.S.strategy before placing more American troops in harm's way.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

This is one of the reasons that he writes The Reason of Church Government, this intense sense of obligation that he feels.

他所感受到的那种强烈的责任感，是他写的原因之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He also noted that Islamic authorities say a face veil is not a religious obligation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

So you don't think the idea of implied consent is strong enough to generate any obligation at all to obey the government?

就是说你认为默认同意的观点,并没有强到，足以让人有服从政府的义务？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I say it is criminal and we each have an obligation to stop it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

And even today, at Passover ceremonies everywhere, Jews are reminded to see themselves, they're reminded of the obligation to see themselves as if they personally came out of Egypt, and personally covenanted with God.

即使在今天，逾越节的时候,犹太人都要提醒他们自己,认为他们自己似乎亲自,出了埃及，亲自和上帝立约。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We are determined to ensure that our NATO allies have the protection they need, when they need it because that is our solemn obligation under Article 5.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Yet there's an enhanced sense of obligation to the czar of all the Russian people.

但每个俄国人对沙皇效忠的意愿,却被加强了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"Israel has an obligation under the roadmap to stop settlement activities,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Because I don't think it carries a sense of obligation.

因为这个判断里没有一种强制的意味。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

President Obama and I consider this to be a solemn obligation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The other thing is moral hazard -this is that companies, once they borrow money from anybody, a bank or anyone else, they have an obligation, which is fixed in dollar terms.

另一个问题是道德风险,意思是说,一旦公司借了钱,无论是从银行还是其他渠道,他们就背负了一种义务,金钱的义务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"President Obama and I consider this to be a solemn obligation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

And that's our obligation to send them to war only when we have to, and only when we know they can actually achieve their mission is a key difference between what I advocate and what the neo-cons advocate.

我们有义务,在必须的时候，送他们上战场，我们必须确保,他们一旦奔赴战场就能完成使命,这是重大的不同,我和新型保守派主张的不同之处主要在此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

that is an Israeli obligation emanating from the roadmap,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"The way I see it,having recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

These are completely optional, not required for the course, so there's no obligation for you guys to get involved in these things, but I'll mention these things as we go along in case anybody would like to get involved in working with professors or graduate students.

这些都是自愿选择的,而不是课程要求,所以并不强制你们都参加,但随着课程的进行,我还会不断提及,便于任何感兴趣的同学,能够与教授或研究生一同参与研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We've seen Milton's account there of how he had attempted to reconcile, on the one hand, his obligation to become a minister and his desire, on the other hand, to become a poet.

我们读到过弥尔顿关于他如此试图妥协和解的描写，一方面，他想要成为牧师，另一方面，他又渴望着成为一名诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's limited by the obligation on the part of the majority to respect and to enforce the fundamental natural rights of the citizens.

它受限于多数人有义务尊重,并维护公民的基本自然权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

As readers, it's our duty, it's our obligation, to sort out and to reassemble.

作为读者，我们的任务和责任，就是鉴别挑选和重组。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Is that speech for the law, with the laws, really intended for the benefit of Crito, rather than an expression ? of Socrates' deepest opinions about the questions of obligation and obedience?

那场为法律所讲，有关法律的对话，真的是要为克里托排解，而不是苏格拉底,最深层意见的表述,尤其是那些问题攸关义务与服从？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So every generation of Israel is to view itself as standing at the sacred mountain to conclude a covenant with God, and that decisive moment has to be made ever-present. That's a process that's facilitated by the obligation to study, to study the laws, to recite them daily, to teach them to your children: these are instructions that are contained in Deuteronomy.

那么每一代以色列人都将自己看做站在圣山上,与上帝立约的人，于是那个决定性的时刻,被变为了恒久的场景这是通过学习，学习律法,而达成的过程，每天背诵它们，把它们交给你的孩子们：这是申命记中,包含的指示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For Comus, nature has given us all of her riches and it's our duty, it's our obligation, to spend them, to consume them, and to luxuriate in nature's generosity.

科玛斯认为，自然赋予我们她所有的财富，我们有职责有义务去使用消费它们，自然如此慷慨大方，我们有义务去享用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's our obligation now to look at the poem's conclusion.

现在我们应该看一下这首诗的结尾。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选