And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.

首先我们有这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人“,并且这个导航人在明喻中，体现为从诗句之外向内眺望。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I work part-time. When the girls were small, I worked from home.

我是做兼职工作。当女儿还小的时候，我在家里工作。

妈妈亲手做的味道 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They found the highest levels of solar activity cause small, but far-reaching effects on weather systems around the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

This is a baby elephant, so it's really, really big-- except it's a baby elephant, so it's really, really small."

这是只大象宝宝,所以它很大很大,但是它只是个大象宝宝,所以它其实又很小很小

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Dancing to the music would be the man's small monkey dressed in a tight-fitting, colorful jacket similar to a military uniform.

VOA: special.2011.03.13

If the land isn't taken up by large oligarchies life slaveholding class--then the small guy has a chance.

如果土地没有被大的垄断方占有,奴隶阶级,弱小的一方就仍会有希望

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You come from every corner of our country -- from privilege and from poverty, from cities and small towns.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

There are still some active smallpox virus specimens kept in the world, and there are two sources of small--two places where smallpox is stored now.

世界上仍有地方保存着,一些具有活性的天花病毒样本,有两个地方还储存着天花病毒样本

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The shoe is small -- a European size thirty-seven, or a women's size seven in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A USA Today-Gallup poll shows a small majority believe the new health care plan is a good thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

which school was this? -It was a small college.

这是哪所学校？-曾经是个很小的大学。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is so crowded that we are packed like sardines - just like small fish in a can.

VOA: special.2011.02.27

Or, if you take almost anywhere else-- the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it broke up, Vienna was now this over-sized capital that-- in a very, very small country, but it was balanced off by Budapest.

或者,想想其它任何地方,分崩离析前的奥匈帝国,维也纳在这个狭小的国家里,算是特大型的首都,但还有布达佩斯能够与其成对峙之势

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Light-emitting diodes are small glass lamps that use much less electricity than traditional bulbs and last much longer.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It's basically--if I am told that you're a genius and your genius is about to be in full-flower throughout this class and it's a small class as these classes were, I'll focus more on you, I'll give you more of my attention.

它其实…如果有人告诉我你是天才,你的才智能在这节课上完全体现出来,这个班的人不多，我就会把更多的注意力放在你身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Two years later, in seventeen fifty-seven, he produced a small clock that he could hold in his hand.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It looks a little something like that, and the screen doesn't quite do it justice here, Z but there's two alphabets; A through Z, and then A through Z, -- but the inner A through Z is on a small -- it has a smaller diameter; so it's a ring of letters.

它看起就像那样的东西，那个画面做的不是这么公正，这里有两个字母表，A到Z，然后A到，但是戒指内部的A到Z是在一个小直径的上面-,它有一个小的直径，所以它是一个有字母的戒指。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One cold January morning in nineteen eighty-eight, library workers found a small,almost frozen kitten in the book drop.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

For people interested in new technology, a New York based company,Makerbot, sells kits to people who want to build a small 3-D printer.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

The universal state will never allow for or does not allow for the kind of self-perfection that a small, self-governing polis will have.

万国之城将永不会允许,或说不会允许一种自我完善,那只有在小型，自治的城邦中才行得通。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Or,he said human DNA really was present in the bone, but the bone was too small or low-quality to repeat the first results.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

That's--that accounts for relatively small number of the overall cases of Type I Diabetes.

型糖尿病患者,占患者总人数的比率相对较小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

It may sound like a small improvement but he just had very highly-paid insurance salesmen and they were paid as long as people kept their policy.

这听起来似乎是一个小进步,他只是高薪聘用了一些推销人员,他们只要能保住客户就能获得高额回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

What he wanted to identify was why-- what distinguishes this small group from the rest of the pack: very successful, but not quite as successful as that small group.

他想弄明白其中的原因-,这一小部分人和其他人有何区别：,其他人也非常成功，但没有那一小组人那么成功。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

An answer from twentieth-century America,very small.

二十世纪在美国的研究表明,很小

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选