A hospital was not supposed to require more than eighty hours of duty in a week.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.

的确，一个人必须要有这种聪悟的被动,才能在那一瞬间理解到每一个艺术作品,背后都有这个的意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But at the same time like real people, they can turn around and act in a way that is loyal and true above and beyond the call of duty.

但同时也与真人一样，他们也有完全不同的一面,在使命面前显示出忠诚和真实。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Mr. Zorn says he believes he has a duty as an American citizen and as a citizen of the world to take action against genocide.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

because you read the Bill of Rights, for example, The Declaration of Independence, citizens have a duty to put a new government if it is not serving well the people.

举个例子，如果你读《人权法案》,或者《独立宣言》,如果政府不够尽责,公民有权支持一个新的政府。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In another famous illustration, "The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty."

VOA: special.2010.07.25

It's a worldview often obsessed, as we said last time, with notions of honor and duty.

如我们上次所说,这是个,经常执着于荣誉和责任观念的世界观

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Secretary of State Clinton, in Seoul earlier this week at the end of a trip to Asia, said the world has a duty to act over the sinking.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Milton actually wrote that it was the duty, not just the right but the duty, of a nation to rise up and dethrone through execution an unjust, though legitimate, king.

弥尔顿实际上写道，站起来通过处决而废黜，一个尽管合法却不公正的国王是一个国家的义务,不仅仅是权利，而且还是义务。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He is believed to have had serious reservations about the upcoming tour of duty in a Muslim nation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Would it be just to torture the suspect to get the information or do you say no, there is a categorical moral duty of respect for individual rights?

为了拿到情报而对他严刑拷打，是否合理,抑或你不赞同，你认为有尊重个人权利的绝对道德责任？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

U.S.Army Sergeant Jeremy Tormala, on his second tour of duty in Iraq, thought the elections gave a good indication that Iraqi forces will be up to the task.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In his request to be relieved of duty, General Fonseka asked the president to allow him to keep a security detail, including trained combat soldiers, and a bullet proof vehicle, saying the defeated rebels are yet capable of trying to kill him.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14