They said a slave-owner had as much right to his property as the owner of any other kind of property.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He's a page-turner, and his extraordinary brilliance as a critic is really just part of the experience of reading him.

他的书让人欲罢不能，读他的书不仅能,在文学批判方面有所收获。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Cleveland Clinic says the cause of cluster headaches is in a brain area known as a trigeminal-autonomic reflex pathway.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Now, if you look on your handout, there's a reconstruction of this tent-like sanctuary at the top as well as a schematization of its contents below.

你们可以看一下我发的材料，最上面有对这个像帐篷一样的圣所的重组,下面有对这个圣所里面内容的图示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Many students save money by starting their education at a two-year public college, also known as a community college.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Yeats spoke of the poem as a mad song, maybe not a kind of mad song we would--it's not what we would think of as a mad song, necessarily.

叶芝说这是首狂诗歌，也许不是我们所讲的狂诗歌,不一定是我们所认为的狂诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

People can't pay --they can't pay a high interest if they don't have it as a long-term loan.

如果银行不发放长期贷款,他们就不能够支付高额利息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The group Defenders of Wildlife describes black bears as between a half-meter and three fourths of a meter at the shoulders.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

"All politics grows out of the barrel of a gun," as a famous twentieth-century Machiavellian once put it.

所有的政治都是活在枪杆子下“,这是二十世纪一位著名,马奇亚维利派学者的解译。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

And so over the course of the century, you can see a gradual -- as if something like this could actually be charted.

因此在17世纪的进程中，你们可以看到-,看似这些事真的可以被规划。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A woman who graduated from a women's college in nineteen fifty-three remembers hearing her as a graduation speaker.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

If a photon, which has no mass, can behave as a particle --And we know this.

如果一个没有质量的光子，像粒子一样运动--，我们知道这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- or bought -- from somebody else.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And then she is gripped with--as she says, "overcome all at once"-- by a need to touch him, as if she could not believe in him or would not remember him.

然后，就像她说的，“突然克服了“一样，她被一种接触他的需要紧紧握住，就像是她不能够相信他，或者是记得他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The huge Saturn rocket, as tall as a thirty-six-floor building, was the heaviest thing ever to leave Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.

在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出，即使不是一天到晚，也只有外出是例外，而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mila Kunis co-stars as Lily, a dancer who is competing for the leading role in the ballet.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

Just as a 2-list, or a list of 2 elements.

来表示它们，就想一个二元数组。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

Of what? -Alienation. -Alienation as a theme in film? -Yeah.

什么的？，-异化，-异化,电影主题里的异化？-是的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

It was a low,dull,quick sound -- much a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

But please try and look at--somebody's not looking at it, because they're using it as a fan here-- So look at Game 1 and fill out that form for me, okay?

请大家看下游戏1 我知道有人没看,他们用那张纸扇风呢,快浏览下游戏1 然后填完 好吗

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Thirty of them had been identified as having mild autism, a form also known as high-functioning autism.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

Aristotle, and his politics, made the point neatly, and I quote him, "As a man," - I'm sorry, "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst when separated from law and justice.

亚里士多德和他的政治学,很巧妙地说明了这点,我引用他的话来说,"作为一个",不好意思,"人类由于至趋完善而成为最优良的动物,但一旦脱离法律和正义,他就堕落为最恶劣的动物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选