The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We can never just have it there before us or, as I say, if we can--if we can--it's a very, very difficult act of concentration.

我们永远不能只面对着它，或者，要我来说，如果我们可以的话，那将需要高度集中注意力，这是很难的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Many steroid hormones act because they bind to cellulars - to receptors that are deep within the cell, often inside the nucleus.

许多类固醇激素能够起效是因为,其与存在于细胞内部的受体相结合,这类受体通常在细胞核内

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

During the early weeks of eighteen ninety-eight, President McKinley waited for Spain to act on its promises to Cuba.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

only to affect our local neighborhoods But what we do locally, act locally, think globally. -Right.

但这力量只能影响到当地社区,我们在本地所做的，着眼于本地行动，着眼于全球思考，-对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

The governing of a distress call is actually an extremely delicate high-wire act for any young organism from an evolutionary point of view.

事实上，发出求救信号,是极其危险的行为,从进化的角度看,对任何一个年轻的生物体。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is also unpopular because of its cost.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The National Industrial Recovery Act of nineteen thirty-three gave labor leaders the right to organize and represent workers.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

There's a peculiar story that refers particularly and that is the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

有一个奇怪的故事,1993年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But another law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act of Nineteen Thirty-Five, helped labor unions to increase their power.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

It's in response to what was deemed to be the chaotic condition of English religious culture that the Presbyterian-led Parliament issued in 1643 the Licensing Act.

这是对被视为英国宗教文化的混乱状况的回应,由长老派领导的议会1643年,颁布的《权法案》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Early in his career, he continued President Kennedy's desire for social change by helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of Nineteen Sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

They are un-individuated, if that makes any sense, in the act of sexual union. There is the unutterable sexual rush that can only come about through total corporeal enjambment.

这时候他们，如果可以这么说，被非个体化了，这里有种只有通过完全的,肉体交合才能得到的难以言喻的性高潮。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But e-books can act more like computer software licensed only to the user who buys them.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Reagan was a big believer in free markets; we had a law that actually passed, it's called the Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980--that's actually before Reagan.

里根是自由市场的崇信者,那时其实通过了一项法律,称为,1980年存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,该方案是在里根执政之前通过的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So in nineteen thirty-five, the Congress passed a new law called the National Labor Relations Act.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Wal-Mart, after the 1960 Act of Congress, would say, hey we're a real estate investment trust, we own real estate--all these stores -but that's not what the intent of this bill was.

国会通过这部法案后,沃尔玛说我也是房地产投资信托基金,我也持有房地产,所有店铺都是房地产,但这并不是这部法案的本意

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The National Arboretum was established by an act of Congress in nineteen twenty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

You could think of this as the poem's first -- by no means its last - its first act of poetic disobedience.

我们可以把这当做这首诗第一次--绝不可能是最后一次,-这首诗第一次违背诗歌规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the protests helped pass the Civil Rights Act of Nineteen Sixty-Four.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

In the controversies that are leading up to the Licensing Act, one of the authors most frequently mentioned as posing a special threat to the well-being of the English nation is our very own Milton.

这些论战导致了《权利法》的出台，最常提到的对英国的繁荣富强有着特殊威胁的,作者之一就是弥尔顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The cells that take an electrical signal, which is coming down your nerve and convert it into a muscle contraction work this way, so 'neuro' nerve, muscle junctions act based on ligand-gated ion channels.

依靠相同的工作原理,细胞将来自于神经的,电信号传递到细胞收缩肌中,所以神经和肌肉关节运动,都基于配体门控离子通道

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选