A tragedy of unprecedented proportion is unfolding in Africa, Professor Coovadia said Mandel's words affected him personally.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Katrina was not only a tragedy, it was an envrionmental catastrophe as well.

卡特里娜飓风不仅带来了一场悲剧，同时它也是一场环境灾难。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

If you like comedy, don't watch a tragedy.

如果你喜欢喜剧，就不要去看悲情片。

It depends on 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The Gulf spill is a tragedy that never should have happened." In the battle to win hearts and minds, BP's newest ad, appears to be winning few converts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

That was supposed to be a tragedy that, in some manuscript drafts that we still have today -- in some manuscript drafts, he titled this prospective tragedy Paradise Lost and in other drafts Adam Unparadised.

他打算写一部悲剧，在一些目前还存留的草稿中,我们看到弥尔顿将这部要写的悲剧命名为,《失乐园》，在另外一些草稿中又叫做《亚当失乐园》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Unfortunately, it owes that fame to a tragedy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

When we look at the death of Socrates, do we think of it as a tragedy, as a moral tragedy, ? a just man sentenced to death by an unjust law?

当我们读到苏格拉底之死，我们是否会认为那是一场悲剧，道德悲剧，一名正义之士被不公的法律判处死刑？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"It seems to me that we should be able to take what has been a tragedy and turn it into an opportunity to create a situation where lives in Gaza are actually directly improved."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

And it's not occured to me society advancement is always a tragedy.

我不认为社会发展会,一直是个悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"And,when you get the sense of cooperation and common goals, common purposes among the people here today, you cannot help but see that this is something positive growing out of something that is such a tragedy."

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.

他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She and Arthur Herzog wrote it. Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He called it a "tragedy" and a "twenty billion dollar shakedown" of a private company.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

So, it's a real tragedy that the world had lost that.

所以，这个世界失去了那段影像真是一个悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Faulkner ties the three levels of individual psychology, social history and tragedy into a whole.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.

当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"With more stable infrastructure, once it's rebuilt, with a more robust health system, there's an opportunity to not only deal with the immediate tragedy of the earthquake, but hopefully, some of the longer-term crises that Haitians have experienced day in and day out."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The White House has promised a thorough investigation of the matter, and steps to guard against a repeat of the tragedy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

This is a terrible tragedy for the United Nations and the whole humanitarian community in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

People who lived through the events of that day say that nearly a decade later, they are worried that the tragedy is slowly being forgotten.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"It will be a great tragedy for humanity if research with chimpanzees were stopped."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Carolyn Maloney's own tragedy struck last September, when she learned that her husband of 31 years had died on a mountain trail, during an expedition to the Himalayas.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07