The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

You have a wind that blasts from God's nostrils, the waters stand straight like a wall, and at a second blast, the sea then covers the Egyptians, and they sink like a stone in the majestic waters.

从上帝的鼻孔里吹出来一阵狂风,水墙骤起，第二阵狂风吹起,海水淹没了埃及士兵，他们就像石头一样沉入水底。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Isn't it difficult being a mother and a professor at the same time and keeping a balance between the two?

同时做母亲和教授是不是很困难呢？两者之间取得平衡不容易吧？

教授的梦想 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She said the company should give a prize to the best student in a high school near the factory.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

So first time through the loop, the answer is a. Second time it-sorry, as it enters the loop, at the time it enter exits a the answer is a.

当第一次完成循环的时候，答案是a，第二次，对不起，在第一次进入循环的时候,答案就是。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

It's all stage-driven, the stage being a billboard and the stage being a keynote or the stage being a product launch.

用舞台来发展自己，舞台就是个宣传板，舞台就是基调,或者舞台就是产品发布会。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in sand.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So they--a typical advanced country takes a third of the profits, the government takes a third of the profits.

典型发达国家一般征收走三分之一的利润,政府拿走公司利润的三分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And there is a more personal connection to the entertainment than going to a movie or the theater.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

I was curious; I was even a user assistant at the time, I was certainly a geek at the time and yet I had no sense really of what actually went on in a classroom like this.

我很好奇，在当时我是一名助教，那时我肯定是一个怪胎,我真的不知道,这样的课上讲的是什么东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The reader projects before himself a meaning for the text as a whole as soon as some initial meaning emerges in the text.

一旦文本开始构成意义读者,就会对整个文本,做出自己的解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A person attaches a tube to the goat and, after a little pumping, the milk begins to flow.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

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

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

Most importantly you might say what distinguishes the gentleman as a class from the philosophers is a certain kind of knowledge or practical intelligence.

你可能会说，最重要,能区别出,绅士阶级与哲学家的地方,是一种特定的知识,或实际智能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They said a thin valley in the Atlantic Ocean was a place where the ocean floor splits.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

But if the South was a slave society the North was a market society.

如果南方是一个奴隶社会,那么北方就是一个市场社会

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head in sports.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

And the reason why there is a final paper because the best way which is like a presentation, because the best way to learn is to teach.

为什么写期末论文，是因为像演示那样的最好的方式，因为最好的学习方式是教。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If a person donated the token to a group project, the token was worth half of that amount to each person in the group.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

She is former President of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Board of the Council of Foreign Relations and a member of the American Society of Arts and Sciences.

她是美国国际法学学会的前任会长,她同时还是美国国务院政策规划司成员,美国艺术与科学学会成员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A report in the Journal of Biogeography describes how a team from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg searched the South Orkney Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

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

Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

When I was a boy the eight ounce Coke was the default serving, and when I was a child when it was time to have a Coke or a Pepsi you had eight ounces and the event was over.

当我还是个小男孩的时候,可口可乐,或是百事可乐都是八盎司装的,而且最多就只能喝一瓶

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And the nucleus name was used as an analogy to the nucleus of a cell so in some ways that makes it easier to see the connection but I think it can also be a little bit confusing for maybe 7th graders that are learning both at the same time, that this nucleus acts very different from a nucleus in a cell, although, of course, there many of them in the nucleus of a cell.

原子核这个名字的命名,是类似于细胞核,这样会让人们更容易看到两者之间的联系,但我觉得这样可能,会给正在学这两个课程的,7年级学生带来困惑，原子核的行为,和细胞核完全不同，虽然在细胞核。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选