He became a lawyer. He moved to another northeastern state -- Massachusetts -- where he became active in Republican Party politics.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

Sometimes subtle changes in the structure of a protein can convert it from an active state into an inactive state.

有时蛋白质结构上一些很小的变化,就能将其由激活态转变为非激活态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's also known for students who are very passionate and active in a lot of different activities.

布朗大学的学生也十分热情，他们会积极参与各种活动。

被学问的自由所迷住 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"People who were physically active on a regular basis had lower risk of cognitive impairments in late life.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

So that he knew a lot about music, but he never performed or never was active as a musician.

他对音乐很懂，但他从来没有,表演过或者成为一个积极的音乐人。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I keep my mind active and coming to school three times a week, and walking up and down the steps, that kept me physically able."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

So, the active part of the thermometer could be water. It could be alcohol, mercury, it could be a piece of metal.

那么温度计的工作部分,可以是水可以是酒精，水银，可以是一块金属。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But it would keep the Confederate armies active for a few more weeks or months.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

So every time you move your arm, that area of the brain with green line starts, become active in a particular way.

因此，每当你运动手臂的时候，大脑中绿线的部分开始工作，以特定的方式活跃起来。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Later,it became the active substance in a medicine that Bayer called aspirin.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Yet he continued to be active as a conductor and speaker.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

We also have active visualizations because there's a lot of research showing that if you're actively engaged in something that solidifies the learning objectives we're taking home.

我们同时也有主动性直观化,因为很多研究结果表明,如果你积极地参与,到一些使学习目标具体化,的活动中去的话,便能真正理解它。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The other half were given a gel without an active substance.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

So in those circumstances, I'm an advocate of active euthanasia. I think it is just as if you have a dog who was dying from some disease, you wouldn't say, well we just let nature take its call.

所以这种情况下，我通常会,支持安乐死，我认为,这就像是你的狗得了病,马上就要死了，你不会说，嗯，我们顺其自然吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She wanted a more active part in making photographs.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

If you want to know which part of your brain is responsible for language, you could put somebody into a scanner and have them exposed to language or do a linguistic task or talk or something and then see what parts of their brain are active.

如果你想知道大脑的哪个区域,负责语言功能,你可以对被试进行扫描,让他们暴露在语言环境中,或是进行语言学任务,或者聊天,然后观察他们的哪些脑区处于活跃状态

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She says youth movements have also become politically active, promising to vote after looking at a candidate's record on the environment.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

That's a very strange thing because the Greeks turn out to be an enormously active seafaring people with tremendous fear of the seas.

但奇怪的是,希腊人,虽然对海洋有着极度的恐惧,但同时,他们又是一个活跃于海上的民族

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Is it calmer now? Are people a little less active than they were a few months ago or about a year ago?

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Many doctors recognize that patients,like Daniel, with strong family support, a positive attitude and an active spiritual life have a greater chance to survive.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Recently,AMISOM has begun taking a more active role in the conflict, patrolling far beyond their bases, and at one point, fighting alongside government forces.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

It's a gene that allows you to deliver a drug that's not active but the gene causes that active - that inactive drug to be converted into an active form that kills the cell.

这一方法利用该基因激活,另一种已经导入细胞的非活性药物,来杀死肿瘤细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

and they did it,". He says reforms undertaken by communist dictatorships never lead to systemic change without an active opposition creating what he calls a "civil society movement."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

they are also very active in a lot of extracurricular activities.

他们也非常积极地参与课外活动。

图书馆经常人很多 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Meanwhile,police say at least eleven members of the Central Reserve Police Force died when their vehicle hit a landmine in an area of Chhattisgarh, where Maoists are active.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

It's a city that is so politically active

这座城市在政治上很活跃，

对政治很感兴趣 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选