But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The writers on the syllabus consistently try to imagine a way to make those claims, make those claims for the primacy and the importance of what they do.

大纲里的作家一直在尝试,设想出一种方法来提出要求，把他们写的书放在首要地位,使他们的要求得到重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By her example, she taught all Americans about the importance of one's beliefs and the power of truth.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the fifty-two pages also talk about the importance of diplomacy, development and coalition-building to reach policy goals.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

The importance of this painting is who is being painted and, more than that, who is getting Rembrandt to paint this.

这幅画作的重点在于谁被画了进来,更重要的是,是谁让伦勃朗画这幅画的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Government,community and business leaders have pushed for teaching young people about the importance of saving, budgets and the true cost of credit.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Now in music as you probably know-- we've already talked a little bit about this-- we have the importance of the beat.

你们也许知道在音乐中节拍很重要,我们已经讨论过一些,节拍的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The F.C.C.says the court "in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet."

VOA: special.2010.04.09

So I talked about some of "the greatest hits": the importance of gratitude, the importance of physical exercise.

于是我谈到了一些热门话题：,感恩的重要性，体育锻炼的重要性。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

President Obama talked this week about the importance of building exports as a way to create jobs and economic growth at home.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Well, well and good, but at the same time, if that's the case, and if there is this extraordinary emphasis on the importance of the expression of genius, you can see what's beginning to happen.

很好，但与此同时，如果过于重视那些,天才作家的表达，你可以看到它所引起的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

On Tuesday the president gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Now next time, in my lecture on introducing you to Judaism, I'll talk about the importance of at least two of these empires, because they're very important for the history of Palestine and Israel at this time.

下次课讲犹太教时，我会讲到至少其中两个帝国的重要性，因为他们对当时,巴勒斯坦及以色列影响非常大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In a striking closing scene, the ocean expert Sylvia Earle talks about the importance of protecting the beautiful world that lives under the sea.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

There was a severe crisis and so that again highlights the importance of having good bank regulation.

但这确实是一场严重的危机,也再一次强调了良好银行监管体系的重要性

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Rod Curtis says that shows the importance of the new vaccine targeting both viruses at once.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Now here--here is the importance of assessing dietary behavior, and you guys are doing it on yourselves.

评估饮食行为的重点在于,你们要针对自己进行评估

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The goal was to bring the economic power of girls and women, and the importance of women's issues, to the attention of G-20 leaders.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

I think we all understand the importance of children growing up together and having the opportunity to work together to become friends, to learn the results of conflicts and to basically interact in a social environment.

我们都明白,孩子共同成长,有机会合作是很重要的,他们要成为朋友，要知道发生冲突的后果,要在社会环境里互动。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

His painting and the Louvre Museum show the importance of celebrating art's past and its present.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

One more extremely important announcement, it's on your syllabus, but I want to underline it even more than it is already underlined and boldfaced.I want to underline the importance of the section discussions in this course.

还有一个特别重要的通知，这在你们的课程纲要上但我想请你们在那下面划线,这比那些已经被划出或加粗的字还重要,我想请你们划下讨论课的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

She helped the family understand the importance of the HeLa cells and accept that the scientific community has gained so much from their use.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Now,I don't in any way want to belittle the importance of the pain and suffering that happen for the rest of us when somebody that we care about dies.

我不想对我们在乎的人过世时,我们所经历的伤痛进行贬低。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

No,a newspaper reporter -- a reminder, in this age of new media and social media, not to forget the importance of the old media.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And this is typical enough but, despite all of the, sort of, sour things I just said about Freud, the big idea, the importance of the dynamic unconscious, remains intact.

这就是通常的情况了,尽管我刚才说的都是些，关于弗洛伊德的负面的东西，但总体来看，动力无意识的重要性仍然不可撼动。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Still others performed community outreach services to help educate people on the importance of going green.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

That chapter goes on to talk about ; the importance of engaging diversity; and God telling Adam that we live in a world ; with different beings, different parts, and different pieces; and Adam having the unique gift to be able to name those differences.

那章接着谈论了,融合差异的重要性;,上帝告诉亚当我们居住在一个,由不同的人，不同的部分组成的世界;,亚当拥有独特的天赋能够,为那些不同命名。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yet despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the importance of property the aim of the city he tells us is not wealth is not the production of wealth.

他虽然注意到,商业与财产的重要性,但城市存在的主要目的,如他说到,并非财富,并非创造财富。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选