Here is a good reason to be hopeful about the future: it might help you stay alive.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Bob Frydenlund says having a round barn means keeping alive part of the history of American farming.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"If you present it to them in a way that engages their imagination, that engages their playfulness, that engages their willingness, they come alive."

VOA: special.2010.06.03

He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is alive with flowers. In the center is a statue with water running from it.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

So I claim if you look carefully there's a little box in here that's still alive.

如果你们仔细观察,会发现还剩一个小方格

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The researchers say all ten patients remain alive two and a half years after the treatment, and the disease has disappeared in nine of them.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

We're always finding some woman alive who claims she was married to a Confederate soldier.

我们总能找到些仍然健在的老太太,号称自己曾与南部邦联士兵结过婚

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He says the dinosaur would be a beautiful creature if it were still alive.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

It was implanted into the first patient, a gentleman in Kentucky, and he stayed alive for a period of time with this device replacing his heart.

第一个植入这个人工心脏病人是,住在肯塔基州的一位先生,他在移植手术后,存活了一段时间

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

One recent visitor said the Ellis Island immigration hall feels alive with the stories of people who left their native lands long ago to start a new life in a new country.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.

718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single,enduring image.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But her baby,a boy,was alive.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"It will for a long time, at least while I am alive. And it is not just trucks and heavy machinery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

And I said, wait a minute, is that guy still alive?

我说,等等,难道他还活着

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He's also running Sophia's Heart, a charitable foundation for disadvantaged children, which Danny created to keep his late wife's legacy alive.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

You are not a psychopath, and you are alive.

说明你不是精神病人，也还没死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And several times a year, a generally quiet part of town with no big buildings or yachts comes alive with a flourish.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

What a time to be alive, huh? Yeah.

现场演奏,多好啊

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

American hospitals are doing a better job of keeping elderly patients alive while they're in intensive care.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Either I don't exist or I'm not alive or I'm not a person, whichever precise way we have to put it.

要么我不存在，要么我不是活着的或不再作为人，就在这三种方式里选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Messina Mayor Giuseppe Buzzanca says a desperate search continues under the collapsed buildings and rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

How good it is to be alive is a matter of adding up all of the-- call it the contents of life.

活着有多美好取决于-,生活内容的总和。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They're still alive. When there's a car accident, you ask, so-and-so died, so-and-so survived.

他们仍然活着,当发生车祸的时候,你说,谁死了,谁幸存了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选