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

They got this name because they wore on their coats a copper penny with the head of an Indian.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Given the abstraction, the notion of a point as an instance with some values, I can now start building segments.

真的很有帮助，基于这个抽象,点的概念也就是一个，有一些值的实例。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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 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

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

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

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

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.08.13

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 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

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

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

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION - an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

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

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 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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.10.31

So these are just some pictures to show you what the smallpox lesions look like on the face of a child, and then distributed over the whole body of an adult, to give you some better idea of what kind of a disease this was.

所以这里给你们展示一些图片,这就是小孩脸上的天花伤痕,这是天花遍布成人全身的样子,它能让你们更好的理解,天花是一种什么样的疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A TSV file, tab-separated values uses the same thing but a tab character, if you wanna output an actual tab character, the result of hitting the tab key, \t you do use backslash T. That's so those kinds of files are made.

而TSV文件，“制表符分隔“文件,顾名思义，就是用制表符来分隔每一列，如果你想输出一个真正的制表符，点击tab键，你也可以用,这就是那些文件的形成方式。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选