The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

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

it's a two-and-a-half-year-long program that mixes biology, chemistry, physics and computer science together.

这门课是一个两年半的项目，涵盖了生物学、化学、物理学，还有计算机科学。

与教授的面谈 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says the group used a million-and-a-half-dollar donation from the Nike Foundation to expand the program to cricket players in India.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

You take a nine-month-old and for Piaget a nine-month-old is just starting to make sense of objects and their permanence.

你找到一个九个月大的婴儿,在皮亚杰看来,九个月大的婴儿才刚刚发展出,客体以及客体永存性的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He noted in a V-O-A broadcast in Nineteen-Ninety that blacks are singing in opera houses all over America.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

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

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

But at the same time, this is slightly earlier, this is a painting--thanks, Dan--this is a painting of bruegel the Elder.

这是同时期稍早时候的一幅画,出自老布勒哲尔之手

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A good example--we used it a moment ago-- of a disjunct melody is-- Can we all sing that?

我们之前听过的一段曲调,是一个跳进旋律的典型例子,我们大家一起唱好吗

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The difference is that the printer builds a three-dimensional scaffolding out of a sugar-based material called a hydrogel.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

And so ease of implementation is actually a very compelling -- metric against which to measure-- -- do you mind toning my voice down a bit-- is a very reasonable measure against which to measure the quality of an algorithm, right.

如此简单的实现实际上是一个很牵强的,度量，与之相对的衡量是-,如果你们不介意，我降低点音量-,是一种用来度量算法质量的,合理的方法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

We see this in the fact that the gods are very often ; associated with natural powerful forces, right? The sky is a god; the fire is a god; fertility--a natural process--is a god.

这一点可以在很多例子中得到证明，就比如说,神灵通常是和自然力量联系在一起的，对吧？有天空之神;,有火焰之神，有丰收之神，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Getting a grade like a B-plus or a C-minus adds or subtracts a few tenths of a point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

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

I could see that the word w-a-t-e-r meant something wonderful and cool that flowed over her hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

So, if you have a sixty-one you're from the Ain, and if you have a sixty-two you're from the Pas-de-Calais, or if you have a sixty-three you're from the Puy-de-Dome.

如果是61的话,就来自安省,如果是62,就来自加莱海峡省,如果是63的话,就来自多姆山省

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

He was writing to a foreign--a French--correspondent.

在写给一名外国,一名法国记者的信中

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

These included a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet and a Mediterranean diet, which is made up of fruits,vegetables, lean proteins,olive oil and nuts.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

And so we've got a--we could imagine then a-- Descartes-like argument saying, "If I can imagine the Evening Star without the Morning Star, that shows the Evening Star and the Morning Star must be two different heavenly bodies."

所以我们得到一个,我们可以想象一个,笛卡尔式的论证,如果我能想象昏星存在而晨星不存在,这就证明了昏星,和晨星肯定是两个不同的天体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She looked up at the shop girl. "Do you think there are any size eights-and-a-half among these?"

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Power is something - and this is what we learn from a reading of John Milton - power is something that is created by a human process of deification, a process of king-worship or a process of God-worship or book-worship or a process, for that matter, of poet-worship.

力量是,-通过阅读弥尔顿我们就会知道,力量就是人们崇拜外物，不断将其神化的产物，这可能是对国王，上帝，或书本的崇拜,或者，就此而言，对诗人的崇拜。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A list of American colleges and universities that offer financial aid to foreign students can be found at edupass.org -- e-d-u-p-a-s-s dot o-r-g.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Imagine I have a little lamp, a little goose- one of those little gooseneck lamps, I'd put it on the table here, I'd put the height about a f-- about a foot off the table. And if I was really good, - I could hit, or time it so that when I hurt- yeah, try again. When I turn this on switch on in the lamp, at exactly the same time, I'm going to hit a key on my computer and start it running.

想象下我有一个那种小雁颈台灯-,我把它放在桌子上，大概离桌子，有一英尺那么高吧,这样挺好的，我可以打开-,或者关闭这灯,并在这同时，我可以让我电脑,开始运行。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The "six" in the expression comes from the six feet that make up a fathom -- which is a little less than two meters.

VOA: special.2011.03.06

And then other people are really excited because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

而另外一些人真的很兴奋，因为这是一个一生只有一次的机会，

正准备奥运会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You can't call--we know Odysseus himself is a basileus-- him a merchant. Pirate, sure, but merchant, no.

我们都知道奥德修斯是君主,我们不能,叫他商人,海盗没问题,但商人绝对不行

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选