And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

随着选民登记的进行，和在1964年通过的投票权法案,这样的事愈演愈烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm going to just give you two examples of the way Moses and God act as a check upon each other.

我会给大家举两个例子,就上帝和摩西克制对方脾气的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So,I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

These people knew more than anybody else about these things, and so consulting that oracle was a very rational act indeed.

这里的人比别地的人知道得多,所以请示神谕,实际上是有一定道理的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Earlier this week, he used a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to target three Mexican drug organizations.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

I got about a one-minute warm-up here, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got Lynda Paul who's like a Vegas show act. Okay?

这个热场活动很短,大概只有一分钟,由琳达·保罗进行拉斯维加斯那样的演出

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The right thing to do individually or collectively is to maximize, act in a way that maximizes the overall level of happiness.

于公于私，最正确的选择都该是,即为全方位地最大化地提升幸福。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Why should I act in such a way if I have no expectation or reasonable expectation that those around me will reciprocate?

如果我对别人的报答,没有期望或合理的期望,我为什么要这样做？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

But here I have the opportunities to someone something, and then you see them act upon it in a month's later, a year's later.

但我能有机会去帮助别人，并看到他们能因此在一个月后,甚至一年后，收到效果，作出改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She said she did not have to act like a white woman that Hollywood hoped she would become.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

up employing something called programming, the act of constructing, telling a computer to do your bidding.

你们会使用一种叫做程序设计的方法，或称之为构建，即让计算机去执行你的命令。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

With orders from President Obama to act in such a situation, they opened fire, killing three Somalis.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

However, the question is, how do I choose to behave, to act as a result of it?

问题在于，我要选择怎样的行为，去表达情感？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For the first time she seemed to be taking a rest from the tiring act of thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

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

But the force that was guiding her would not permit her to act on such a thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Sometimes you can design drugs that act like a natural ligand without being the natural ligand.

有时你能设计具有天然配体功能的药物,但它不一定和天然配体相同

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A measure known as the Dream Act would put these children of undocumented immigrants on a path toward citizenship instead of possible expulsion.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

There's a peculiar story that refers particularly and that is the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

有一个奇怪的故事,1993年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

And,it was not just a random act, he wanted to extinguish this royal line.

这并不是一次无计划的行动,刺杀者想要灭绝这支皇室成员

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

To do any other kind of manual labor is to act like a slave."

从事其他任何体力劳动便是自贬为奴隶"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选