In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Many commentators have observed that The change in name accompanies a change in character, a change of essence in Israel.

许多评论家发现,名字的改变也伴随着性格的改变，以色列本质的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or if someone makes a mess in a, in a common area, they are expected to clean up that mess.

如果有人把公用区域弄脏了，那他就要负责打扫干净。

有趣的室友们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So you feel like you are a guest in a home instead of a visitor in a huge, impersonal museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

And people give presentations and this is a photo of someone giving a presentation in a positive psychology summit.

被邀请进行讲座，这是一位学生,在积极心理学峰会上作讲座的照片。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The question is there a limit to the kind of calculator I don't care. You can bring a mainframe in on a truck.

问题是对计算器的种类有没有限制,我不在乎，你们可以用大卡车带个主机来。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He had been a teacher, a college president, and a general in the Union army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

In the case of a ligand-receptor, a chemical signal in the form of a concentration of ligand gets converted into a biochemical signal.

在配体-受体系统中,配体浓度这种化学信号,转化为生化信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You may win a lot of money in a lottery, then spend it all in a few days.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

The speech of Saint Peter seems, I think, in a lot of ways to be a lot more like a fire and brimstone sermon than it is a passage in a pastoral poem.

我认为圣彼得的演说，在很多方面似乎很像是一场关于炼狱磨难的布道,而不是田园诗中的一段。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

And if it is just one thing, you could tell a story in which it exists; you could tell a story in which it doesn't exist.

所以,如果它只是一个物体,你只能说它存在,或是不存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And, as we said before, music has a syntax so that these phrases have to be in a-- arranged in a particular way that makes sense.

就如我们曾经提到的,音乐具有语法,这些乐句必须,以特有方式排列,才有意义

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But a drop in oxygen levels can cause a health emergency in people with heart or lung problems.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Every sentence is a predication, and if every sentence is a predication, it also has the structure of a metaphor; and the metaphor in a sentence and the predication in a sentence are always going to be at odds.

每句话都是一句声明，而如果每句话都是一句声明得话，它同样也有隐喻的结构，而一个句子中的隐喻,和句子中的声明总会有分歧。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Right before you guys came to campus there was a tournament, a tennis tournament in town called The Pilot Pen, which is a lead in tournament to the U.S. Open.

在你们入学前的那段时候,有场巡回赛,这场网球赛事被称为"领航笔公开赛",是通往美网公开赛的一个巡回赛

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The family had to move from a costly apartment in Manhattan to a small house in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Now, the critical thing to understand about a corporation is that in order to value a share in a corporation you absolutely have to know the number of shares outstanding.

理解这类公司的关键在于,要衡量一家公司股票的价值,你必须清楚总共发行的股票数量

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we answer a question from a listener in Brazil.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The poems come to you abstracted from the contexts in which they were originally produced and read, from their place in a body of work, in a book, in a magazine, in a life that produced it.

一首首诗，从原始创作和阅读的形态,被分割的分离错杂，从它们在书，杂志，一系列的作品中，在最初的创作生命中，都是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It was held for eleven days earlier this summer in a park along a lake in Milwaukee,Wisconsin.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Second thing they're going to do is let us suppress detail. And in essence what that does is, the functions, and we're going to look at a bunch of examples in a second, these functions are going to give us a way to, in some or in one way of thinking about it is to create new primitives.

第二件要做的事,是忽略细节,函数的本质到底是什么,我们将在接下来的几分钟，举一些例子，这些函数将给我们提供,一种创建原语的思考方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选