The theory explains that as the sea floor spreads, the tectonic plates are pushed and pulled in different directions.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

And you just think that's just gone, if that sea decide to take that house, it's gone, you cannot do it.

这时你会想说，这房子肯定会被毁掉的，如果大海要毁掉它，它就会毁掉，做什么都没有用的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

University of Tasmania scientist Scott Ling says there is evidence that they have been eating the sea urchins.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Volcanic activity broke the large island into pieces that came to the surface of the sea over time.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

As the head of the true church, Peter's voicing here his disgust that the virtuous Edward King, soon to become a minister, had been lost at sea.

作为真我教会的首领，彼得声明了他对一度贞洁的爱德华金，即将成为一名牧师，失去自我的唾弃。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They are home to millions of species of sea life that depend on coral reefs for their survival.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

A sadder story of disaster at sea was never told than that of the survivors of the yacht, Mignonette.

最惨绝人寰的海难,“木犀草号“幸存者的骇人经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Sometimes the birds sat down on the sea in groups, near brown seaweed that rolled on the waves.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

And that is the highest point in Israel, it rises about 10,000 feet above sea level. The central mountain area, those are between 4000 and 10,000 feet above sea level.

那是以色列的最高点，它大约在海平面以上10000英尺，中央的山区，大约在海平面以上4000到10000英尺之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

And that was only possible because, besides using the sea, the shipping lanes for travel, which was much faster than overland travel, the Romans maintained roads.

之所以能达到这个数字，原因之一是走海路，用海洋航路运输，比陆路快得多，另一个原因就是修路。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

America's Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about one hundred thousand sea animals die each year as a result of the plastic waste.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

As of then, I calculated the value of their oil in the North Sea and that's what I got-- it's worth about 3.5 billion Norwegian Kroner.

我计算了当时他们拥有的北海石油的价值,这是我的计算结果-,它价值35亿挪威克朗。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the strong man, still holding the small child, drifted away on the shadowy river that flows forever to the unknown sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The lists of reasons to kill himself were "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," "a sea of troubles," and "the heartache in the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to."

一张是要自杀的原因,“命运的种种捉弄和折磨”,“无穷尽的烦恼“,”血肉之躯必定要承受无数的,锥心之痛“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In "Gift from the Sea", Missus Lindbergh wrote about the many different kinds of pressures that women face.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

But after that it'll be writing about whatever you want and sometimes people feel a little out to sea not knowing exactly what we're expecting, so those instructions that we send out will be helpful.

之后就不用了,只需要写想法就可以,有时候人们会有点不知所措,不清楚我们要的是什么,所以我们给出的说明是有帮助的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Champ is like an American Nessie, the sea monster that supposedly lives in Loch Ness in Scotland.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

What's interesting about the Song of the Sea, this poetic fragment in Exodus 15, is that here the Hebrews adopt the language of Canaanite myth and apply it to Yahweh.

关于海之歌那首出现在《出埃及记》15中的残诗,有趣的是，犹太人改编了迦南人的神话,套用在耶和华的身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There,Darwin noted that levels of rock extending high above the sea contained the fossil remains of shells.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Anyway, the Black Sea is not a Greek lake, but there are Greek cities that are spotted along the coast.

不管怎样,黑海不是古希腊的湖泊,除了东海岸

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There,he discovered that the illegal practice of long-line fishing was taking place in a protected sea area.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

They emerge from this indifferent primal realm, This mixture of salt and sea waters, that is the source of all being and the source of ultimate power, But they age and they mature and they fight and they die.

他们都来自没有差别的原始王国，那盐和水的混合体就是一切生物的本源,也是极权的来源，但是他们会成长，成熟，战争，又死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some say that is still only a small percentage of all the creatures living in the sea.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Well, Homer has his heroes using chariots and we know that chariots were used in warfare in the Bronze Age around the Mediterranean Sea.

荷马史诗》的主角们所使用的战车,我们知道在青铜时代的地中海地区,二轮战车被广泛运用于战争

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is evident that these different Mycenaean towns, all throughout the Greek world, on both sides of the Aegean Sea, were in touch with each other.

很明显,这些位于爱琴海两岸的,希腊世界里的不同迈锡尼城市,都是互相联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选