Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION -- an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?

我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Warren Buffett, he's a well-known business person and an investor. He attended here.

沃伦•巴菲特，他是个很有名的商人和投资家。他也在这里上过学。

哥伦比亚的名人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Now I will also say that a five-page paper written well can trump an eight-page paper written poorly any day of the week.

我还要说的是,写得好的五页报告永远胜过写得差的八页报告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And since it was eighteen eighty-eight -- a presidential election year -- the tariff became an important election issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Her argument sounds -- and some of you may recognize this argument -- it sounds so distinctly like a political argument, an argument from political economy.

她的论点听上去--你们可能也发现这一论点-,听上去就像一个政治论点一样清晰，像是政治理财的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

This is a formula that applies to-- what if an asset pays a fixed amount every period and then stops?

这个公式应用于...,如果一份资产在每段时期都给与支付,然后突然停止了怎么办

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Here's a candidate--here's an outcome with two entrants in it, an extreme right-wing guy and an extreme left-wing guy.

这是个候选人,有两个加入者,一个极端左派的人和一个极端右派的人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Mississippi Masala" was a nineteen ninety-one film about an ethnic Indian family exiled from Uganda when Idi Amin comes to power.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

I want to show you how easy it is to change the code. But, notice, once I've added this I actually have a problem. This is now an under-constrained problem. I have more unknowns than I have equations.

我加上这个条件后,我马上面临一个问题了,这就是现在是一个非约束性问题了,我的未知数比方程数多,你从代数中可以知道。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In September of nineteen sixty-nine Senator Nelson announced his aim to create a national version of an environmental teach-in.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

If you are playing a downbeat with an up-bow are you in good shape? No, no, no, no.

如果你用上弓去拉重音,你的形状会好吗,不会,绝对不会

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

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

Its president,Anne Neal, says these areas of knowledge are needed to succeed in a twenty-first century society and an increasingly connected world.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The governing of a distress call is actually an extremely delicate high-wire act for any young organism from an evolutionary point of view.

事实上，发出求救信号,是极其危险的行为,从进化的角度看,对任何一个年轻的生物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A person with less than twenty-eight grams will now be charged with an infraction instead of a misdemeanor.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

There are certain-- you can take a rat and put an electrode in his brain.

有某种…,可以在老鼠脑子里装一个电极。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate cease-fire.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

In other words, an illusion is created; a never-never land is created.

换言之，幻觉形成的时候，幻境就形成了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Professor Prusinkiewicz is on sabbatical leave in Australia, but he sent us an e-mail suggesting a simple way to understand the process.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

We're going to look to some extent today and mostly next Tuesday at the roots and origins of an anti-slavery ideology, a growing anti-slavery ideology in its many layered forms.

今天讲一部分内容,下周二我们重点会讲到,反奴隶意识形态的根基,那是一个蔓延在许多阶层中的,反奴隶制意识形态

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed a bill with an estimated trillion-dollar price over ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

when I talked on the first day of class about my own boyhood experience when a Coca-Cola was an eight ounce glass or a Pepsi was an eight ounce bottle rather, that was a serving.

上课第一天,我讲了我少年时代的经历,那时可口可乐装在八盎司的玻璃瓶里,百事可乐也一样,那是一餐份量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You can take a high-speed boat trip for about an hour to the Dry Tortugas National Park.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Controlling quality because cloned animals are all genetically identical and so you wouldn't have variability that way, and so potentially you could have - pick an individual that has a really good quality meat and always reproduce that same thing.

克隆动物食品的品质具有可控性,是因为它们有相同的基因,所以动物个体的品质没有差异,所以假设你能够挑选出一个这样的个体,它的肉质非常好,就能利用该技术反复制造,完全相同的肉类产品

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选