The first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and the current talks are aimed at setting in place new legally binding emissions targets for the decade to come.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

So for those people who took Intro Economics, which is most of you, this is a game, this a setting in which we have constant marginal costs.

大多数学过经济学导论的同学都知道,这里的边际成本是一个常数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But still is very professional and you can use it in any setting, business or casual.

但它也同样可以是很专业的表达，可以用在商务或是生活的各种语境。

Is it okay 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The dancers used their bodies to express the setting where the poem takes place, in a kingdom by the sea.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

If we make--If we solve the problem of boredom setting in with progressive memory loss and radical personality changes, maybe boredom won't set in, but it's not anything that I especially want for myself.

如果用持续失忆,和剧烈人格变化来解决无聊的问题，也许不会产生无聊，但那不是我特别想做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Miller examined this difficult period in American history by setting his play at another difficult time.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Researchers in Switzerland were able to recreate a Third Man experience in a laboratory setting.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So, this is some of the last music that Beethoven wrote in the setting that we're about to listen to.

因此,它也是,我们这套唱片里,贝多芬最后的那些乐曲

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Kuwaiti director Sulayman Al-Bassam recreated Shakespeare's famous play in a modern Arab setting.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

So that's the geographical setting for what we are about to read in the Book of Joshua.

这就是它的地理位置,我们将在《约书亚书》中读到的故事就发生在这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But,in answer to a question, he said the setting was "very troubling."

VOA: special.2010.03.12

We used iterative deletion in a relatively abstract setting, or not abstract, rather a play setting last time in which were choosing numbers.

我们在相对抽象的背景下探讨迭代剔除,其实也没那么抽象,比如上一讲,我们做的选数字的游戏

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In some cases,someone from Guinness may come to the record-setting attempt.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

I asked that as someone who's concerned with religious life in a university setting.

我问这个问题，因为有些学生,很关注大学中的宗教生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The Constitution,in setting limits on Congress, says in Article One: "The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended,unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The thing that really emerged just in the last week or so is that of course monetary policy is about setting of interest rates.

在上周左右出现的现象,当然，货币政策的目的,是为了调整好利率水平。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So in that case we would send you to a program in Geneva on international human rights that would give you the international markers that you need to press cases in your particular country setting, and so on.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

If these are the conditions for contact, to what extent are they met in the university setting between, say blacks and whites, people from the American South versus people from the American North, people from other countries versus people from the United States?

如果大学环境里有这些接触的条件，有多少是属于促成因素的？,例如在黑人和白人之间，来自美国南方的人,和来自美国北方的人之间，外国的学生,和美国的学生之间？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Health officials say that setting up command posts in the disease zones will allow more precise monitoring of the outbreaks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In another situation, you could be at a casual lunch setting with friends, eating pizza.

在另一种情况中，你可能正与朋友一起吃一顿便饭，你们吃的是披萨。

Is it okay 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The U.S.plan includes setting up public-private investments to soak up as much as one trillion dollars in troubled loans and securities.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

And I think it shocked me when I was in that room was that there were all kinds of adults setting there around the table talking about young people, the relationship to technology the relationship to culture the relationship to schooling and to each other.

在现场有一件事令我感到震惊,我们一群成年人来参加听证会,围桌讨论各种关于年轻人的问题，讨论年轻人与技术的关系,与文化的关系,与教育的关系以及年轻人之间的相互关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Melanie Walker brought home another gold for Jamaica, setting a championship record of 52.42 seconds in the women's 400-meters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

You can use this in social setting, business setting, casual or formal, whatever.

你可以在社交场合与商务场合使用这个句型，不管是随意或是正式的场合都适用。

I want to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Woods spoke for more than 13 minutes in a tightly controlled setting that was covered live by the major television networks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

How could you develop an argument in which a thought like that might actually seem to work? After all, Foucault--setting himself aside, he doesn't mention himself--Foucault very much admires certain writers.

你如何为这样一个看起来可能的想法,去辩护呢？毕竟，福柯--不谈他自己，他从不提到自己-福柯很钦佩一些作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"It is really setting a good example that it does not matter what office you hold in the country."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

So this cell, wherever it's setting, wherever it is positioned within the nervous system let's say in the cortex somewhere or the outside surface of the brain is able to communicate with a region of the brain that's in this direction, a region in this direction, a region in this direction, a region in this direction.

所以这个细胞 无论它在何处,无论它在神经系统中安身何处,就比方说它位于大脑皮层上吧,即位于大脑外表面上的某处,它可以同,这一方向上的脑域进行交流,也可以是这个方向,也可以是这个方向,也可以是这个方向

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Or in another social setting, say you're with a friend.

在另一种情况下，假如你跟一个朋友在一起。

I'd rather 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人