For three years, al-Shabab has led militants in battles -- mostly against the peacekeepers -- for control of Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

He says, "Poetry in our own time-- -- such is the complexity of the world we live in-- must be difficult."

他写道，“我们这一时代的诗-,正如我们生活着的世界-,让人费解“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In the next seven years, between nineteen-twenty-nine and nineteen-thirty-six, he seemed to re-invent the novel with every book he wrote.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

He urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol,spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

He gives an example--I like to-- he gives an example from a book that-- or it's a collection-- You know this?

他举了个例子...我想要...,他举了一本书上的例子,或者说是本作品集,有谁知道这本作品集吗

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

It turns out there's a new function strlen S-T-R-L-E-N that you probably have not used yet called strlen, S-T-R-L-E-N, programmers early on and still like to be succinct but communicates sufficiently what they mean.

结果这里有个新的函数,你可能没有使用过，叫做，早期的和现在的程序员喜欢简洁地,但是能充分的传达他们的意思。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"The goal of the dual-language program is to teach low-income Hispanic children English -- good English, social English and academic English.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

This was important to Milton, - and one of the big set-piece speeches in Paradise Lost -- - and you may remember it if you've read that poem -- is the hymn that begins "Hail, wedded Love."

这对弥尔顿来说是至关重要的，在《失乐园》中有一个让人印象深刻的片段-,如果你们读过那首诗也许还记得-,那是一首赞美诗，以“致敬，已婚的爱情“开头“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

I can use that to return values, which I can then use elsewhere, which I did-- and if I just come back and highlight this-- inside of that computation.

我可以用它来返回值，然后我可以在别的地方使用这些返回值，正是我做的--如果我回过头来,在高亮一下这个--在这部分计算内部。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

So they'd be going along in this fashion let's say it's duple- one-two, two-two, three-two, four-two.

于是他们便这样做,如果是二拍子的,那就是,一-二,二-二,三-二,四-二

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The delegations from the other six states of the Deep South -- Arkansas, Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi, and Texas -- did the same.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

And here's why. Because this is the No. 1-- equating to selfishness and immorality is the No. 1 cause-- subconsciously mostly, but not only-- No. 1 cause of unhappiness.

这就是为什么，因为这是头号-,将自私等同于不道德是头号原因-,多数是在潜意识里-,导致不快乐的头号原因。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

- But the computer-- but a lot of data about all the students on campus were-- -- was collected--were collected and people were then randomly paired up and sent to the dance.

但是通过计算机-,校园所有学生的数据-,收集起来,然后同学随机配对,按照这种配对一起跳舞。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They are left to grow naturally so the most desirable roots -- those most similar to wild ginseng -- are produced.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

And we turned to a discussion of the unpredictability of death, -- the fact that because we don't know-- we can't predict--how much more time we've got, we may, as it were, pace ourselves incorrectly.

我们转而讨论死亡的不可预测性，因为我们不知道-,我们不能预测--我们还有多少时间，我们可能，可以说是，为自己定错了前进的速度。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The dollar is plunging, -and the dollar is plunging perhaps maybe just around a little bit -- That's been sinking for some months now-- -because America has been living beyond her means borrowing 2 billion a day from foreign nations.

美元大幅走低，-我插一句，美元确实下跌了一点点,且几个月来持续疲软-,-原因在于美国长久以来一直入不敷出,财政赤字每天增长20亿。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He says -- speaking by Skype from his office in Ann Arbor,Michigan -- that he is hopeful the program will work.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

When I was working in a place called Tulle, which is down here--t-u-l-l-e, not Tours, but Tulle-- I knew vaguely that there had been a massacre there in June sixth, 1944, and a lot of people had been hung.

我在一个叫蒂勒的地方工作的时候,在这里t-u-l-l-e,不是图尔是蒂勒,我大概记得,在1944年六月六号那里有个大屠杀,很多人被吊死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Also,the study says the United States fell from thirty-fourth to forty-ninth in female mortality and from forty-first to forty-fifth for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.

这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

And so the guys in Office Space took that money and they-- -- their for loop-- way too fast is-- was the takeaway in that movie, when they freaked out because they had million dollars or something like that overnight.

所以在办公地点里的家伙才能够搞到钱-,然后利滚利--很快的方法-,这就是整个影片的亮点，当他们出于极度兴奋之中,因为他们已经一夜之间,变成百万富翁了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We could begin to put a certain amount of pressure on the text and possibly, as I say, - begin to do things with it which are kind of a five-finger exercise-- -- we'll be doing a lot more of that sort of thing--but which might work.

开始时我们应该对文本抱有一定的怀疑,就像我说的，用一种五指练习法来做-,以后我们会大量涉及到这种练习。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选