In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The Magi here are, again, an image, a kind of visionary symbol, an image available "in the mind's eye" at all times.

这儿，三圣贤又是个意象，一个幻想出的标志，时时存在于大脑中的一个意象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I see this as a course that's an introduction to the literature of a period, to modern poetry.

我觉得，这只是一门引导性课程,引导大家关注某一时期的文学创作和现代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in "phys ed" class.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

We have a full text of the epic that was located in the library of Assurbanipal an Assyrian king. It's a seventh century copy of the story.

现在，在阿淑尔巴尼帕图书馆,保存着公元七世纪,这部书完整的原本。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.

这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里，谁会被淹死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Van Buren had been president for just a few days when an economic crisis and a political storm struck the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

If you get some of these in the upper atmosphere, a photon, an ultraviolet photon, has the energy capable of breaking this bond.

如果你把它放到大气层上，一个光子，一个紫外光光子，有能量可以破坏它的化学键。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So a couple of commands and then an interesting code and then the teaser, that's a teaser.

总结起来，就是几个命令，一个有意思的代码,然后是那个小技巧，那是一个小技巧。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The mystery is linked to the Freemasons, a secret men's group with an estimated five million members around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

It's this sense of injustice that keeps pushing this elegy in the direction of a theodicy: an attempt to justify the ways of God.

正是这种愤愤不平使这首悼亡诗,越来越像斯奥迪斯：试图证明上帝之所为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So Winslow's father found him a job as an assistant in the trade of making and preparing pictures for printed media.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

British ships,with the help of planes launched from an aircraft carrier, destroyed a powerful German battleship, the Bismarck on May 27,1941.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

It's a critique of the idea of anything that has a center, one which is at the same time an enabling causal principle.

它是在评论任何事物都有一个中心的想法，与此同时存在一个任意的原理。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The experiment showed that was not a safe way to protect people the bite of an infected mosquito from yellow fever.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

So, the father gets a Nobel Prize for showing that an electron is a particle, and the son says, well, what can I do to top that?

他的父亲因为发现电子是粒子,而拿到了诺贝尔奖，那么儿子说，好，我能做些什么超越父亲的发现呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The exact cause is unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed signs of halting the disorder in laboratory mice.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Typical characterization, not all the time, but typical characterization, is an algorithm that reduces the size of a problem by one, or by some constant amount each time, is typically an example of a linear algorithm.

我们学习过了线性算法，它的典型特征，不是通用的,但是比较典型的特征是，它是逐一减小问题的大小的，或者说是每次减小常数的大小。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A green card is an official document identifying a person as a permanent resident of the United States.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Just use a piece, an antigenic piece of the virus.

只用一部分病毒,就是其具有抗原性的部分

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But the government also faces an armed rebellion in the north and a separatist movement in the south.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

It's like we have laws of thermodynamics that underlie the use of engines, but you can't just go from the laws of thermodynamics to an automobile; there are a million steps along the way.

这就好比热力学定律,为引擎的使用打下了理论基础,但你不能从热力学定律一步跨越到发明汽车,这中间还要经历成千上万的步骤

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the showerheads was cleaned with a bleach solution in an effort to destroy the bacteria.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

So, it is from the beginning a society in which the community is a critical element, maybe the critical element, an individual who didn't live in a society could not achieve the kinds of glory and fame,and recognition that you expect from a hero.

所以,它最初是这样一个社会,在这个社会中,集体是一个关键性元素,也许是唯一的关键性元素,一个没有社会生活的个人是得不到,荣誉,名望,赏识,这些英雄们才能拥有的东西的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选