The capture of the strategically important district raised fears militants may threaten a critical highway between the capital and Peshawar.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

And not be too critical or expect that you should be at a very high level when you're just beginning.

不要太挑剔，也不要奢望自己刚开始的时候就可以达到很高的水平。

学外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A critical point was a book written by Louis Brandeis, that's the guy that Brandeis University is named after.

这就不得不提路易斯·布兰代斯的一部著作,布兰代斯大学正是以他命名的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"As a critical part of this program, we are making it clear that we are willing to provide capital to the system,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

As we increase the voltage, we get to a critical value at which it is possible to actually draw electrons across the gap.

当我们增加气压时，我们得到了一个临界值，在这个临界值上,将电子吸引过来是完全有可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"It'll be a critical summit, from the point of keeping the EU together,keeping consensus that the EU should maintain leadership on this issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

That's a critical moment in any scale, determining how we're going to feel about it.

这在任何音阶中都很重要,决定着我们对音阶有何感受

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

We'll think about it in section, how you don't need to vaccinate everybody, but you just need to vaccinate a critical number in order to stop the disease from progressing through a community.

我们在讨论会上讲这个,为什么不需要给每个人都接种,但你只需要让接种人数达到一个临界值,就能阻止这个疾病在社会中传播

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Ray LaHood, Secretary of the U.S.Department of Transportation, says distracted driving is a critical problem.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

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

The president spoke of Turkey as a critical ally and an important part of Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Cash was a great journalist, intellectual historian in his own right, deeply critical of his beloved South.

卡什是个杰出的记者,同时也是个卓越的历史学家,他对自己挚爱的南方进行了深度批判

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

This year he played a critical role in condemning the government after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a subsequent crackdown on opposition supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

So in a sense the fact that there's a more critical screen, there's more of a careful thought process, the fact that customers are pickier with their money today, all of that really is a chance to make people better.

所以实际上，如果环境更为挑剔，人们的构思过程就会更为严谨细致，现在的消费者花每一分钱都精打细算，这其中产生的是让人们生活的更好的商机。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

"Rotor craft specifically play a critical role for both commercial and military applications."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

And there's a huge critical industry around Flannery O'Connor, and at the core of it is a body of criticism that finds and articulates and explains the religious meanings of her texts.

奥康纳的周围是个庞大的评论圈，其核心是对她文中的,宗教意义的,发现、表达和阐释。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

a critical meeting with Iran's nuclear negotiator on October 1 to determine if Iran is prepared to discuss an end to a uranium enrichment program believed to be weapons-related.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They play a critical role on some of our refueling efforts.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

But then I also talk about tolerance, which was a critical value for us becoming a nation with all the different religious groups learning how to live together.

但是我还想谈谈宽容，这一点对我们至关重要,有助于各个不同宗教信仰团体紧密团结,学会共同生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I see that we are at a critical moment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

You can see that when Wimsatt and Beardsley talk about the "success" of the poem, they understand the whole critical enterprise, - including its theoretical underpinnings-- the question of what is a poem, - the question of how should we best read it-- to be still geared toward literary evaluation.

大家应该发现，当文萨特与比尔兹利谈到,诗歌创作的“成功“一词时，他们完全理解了文学评论体系，这包括适用于文学评估的理论根基-,就是那些关于什么是诗歌，还有我们如何解读的问题-,这些都对文学评估很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So providing that information is a critical element ".

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"So,I see we are at a critical moment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

And, when zinc sulfide is hit by particles or by anything, by radiation or by particles of greater than a certain critical energy, there is a glow.

当粒子或其他东西,通过辐射或粒子的方式，并且能量高于临界值,撞击到硫化锌的表面上的时候，就会发光。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

His trip comes at a critical time with the results of the country's presidential election still uncertain and worries a disputed outcome, due to allegations of widespread ballot box stuffing, could spark further civil violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

A commercial bank, like a goldsmith banker, accepts deposits--that's critical -and that means you can put money in the bank.

商业银行,就像是一个金匠银行家,接受存款,这一点非常关键,就是说你可以把你的钱放到银行里

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The critical thing about a discount bond is it pays no interest.

要记住贴现债券不支付利息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选