But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Con Markievicz was the only surviving leader of the Easter Rising, condemned to death, but then her sentence was transmuted.

马克维其是复活节起义唯一,幸存的领袖，被判了死刑，但后来判决又改变了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's usually best to respond in a complete sentence rather than saying yes or no which can be ambiguous.

一般来说，回答最好是完整的句子，而不是简单的模棱两可的“是”或“不是”。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

People often add an apostrophe to "its" in a sentence like "The group made its decision."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

In the simplest possible terms, you could say that Milton's sentence, Milton's argument here in this paragraph, has gotten away from him.

用最简单最有可能的话说,你可能会说弥尔顿这段的句子和论点，不是他的本意。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Only once did he look up. He had just written the sentence: "The arms,artillery and public property will be given over to the Union army."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It asked filmmakers to create short videos that completed the sentence "Democracy is ."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Would anybody volunteer to say a sentence, non obscene, non derogatory, that has never been spoken before on earth, ever?

有没有人自愿说个句子,不能是下流的,不敬的,得是世上从未有人说过的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some southern lawmakers even proposed the death sentence for anyone who spoke against slavery.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So for those of you who are nerdy enough to understand the next sentence let me just say it.

对那些已经听烦了的同学,我想先说明这点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Thaksin Shinawatra went into exile in Cambodia to avoid a prison sentence for corruption.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

It's been encrypted pretty naively, pretty simplistically, but it's actually an English sentence that's been somehow scrambled; but scrambled in a reversible way.

它被天真地，相当简单地加密了，但是它实际上是一个被加密的英语句子,但是加密方式是可逆的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Notice in that sentence, he uses those Aristotelian terms, " "form" and "matter" that we spoke about in relation to the Aristotelian regime.

注意看这个句子，他使用那些亚里士多德式的词汇，“形式“和，“物质,那是在谈亚里士多德式政体时所见的词汇。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

In fact, the sentence, "They are one thing," is slightly misleading, right?

简而要之,它们是同一个东西,这有点歧义对吧

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

It's a wonderful sentence, isn't it?

这句话很棒，不是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

One received a prison sentence of six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

because when you write here, it seems like every sentence you write, you have to cite to something else anyway.

因为在这里写作的时候，似乎你写的每一个句子你都要引用其它的东西。

抄袭是很严重的问题 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

President Lincoln could approve or reject Vallandigham's sentence.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

This is a first person sentence that can be translated, "I am who I am," or perhaps, "I will be who I will be," or perhaps, "I cause to be what I cause to be."

这个第一人称句可以翻译为，“我是自有永有的“或者“我就是将来的我“,或者是“我就是我本该是的样子“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

I will try to finish every lecture on time, but sometimes if I'm in the middle of a sentence or the middle of a derivation, I may have to go over by a couple of minutes; there's no need to shuffle your feet and move stuff around.

我会尽量准时下课的,但是有时候如果我正在讲解一个概念,或者正在推导一个公式,我会稍微多讲几分钟,你们不用来回蹭脚,收拾东西什么的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The former prime minster is wanted in Thailand after fleeing a year ago to avoid a two-year jail sentence for corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

So usually, I don't have to do much more than google, and turn in the first sentence and sure enough,

所以，我经常谷歌，输进第一句话，然后非常确信，

对于抄袭的想法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And it's a sentence you wanna use when you wanna describe an activity that

当你想描述一项活动时，你可以使用这个句型。

I feel like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人