Economists say imparting quality education is critical for a country where one third of the billion-plus people are under 15 and where, despite a booming economy, many people are still poor.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

A commercial bank, like a goldsmith banker, accepts deposits--that's critical -and that means you can put money in the bank.

商业银行,就像是一个金匠银行家,接受存款,这一点非常关键,就是说你可以把你的钱放到银行里

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's a very hard-hitting critical article.

这是篇很尖刻的批评性文章

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

What is inescapable is farmers are a sociological category of people, different from non-farmers in all kinds of critical ways, and it is just an example of how this whole business has disappeared.

不可否认的是,农业人口是一种社会学对人口的分类,和非农业人口是完全不同的,这只不过是,整个产业走向消亡的一个例子罢了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Everyone agrees that the epic similes in Paradise Lost are different from the epic similes in any other epic poem, and everyone agrees - I'm just going to be presenting to you a sense of critical consensus here - everyone agrees that the similes are in some way absolutely essential to an understanding of this remarkable poem.

大家都同意中的诗意明喻,是和其他诗中的有所不同的，这是共识,-我将要向大家说明这一点,关于这点大家有决定性的共识,-大家都同意这些明喻某种程度上对于,理解这种异常卓越的诗是必然很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.

大家应该发现，当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时，他们完全理解了文学评论体系，这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌，还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选