But Americans were hopeful. If the plan succeeded, it would be the greatest space act since manned flights began.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

It had come to a kind of crescendo with voter registration drives and the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

随着选民登记的进行，和在1964年通过的投票权法案,这样的事愈演愈烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So,I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

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

It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

She'd think he did it! It would be better to be the boyfriend, and act outraged, and tear the funhouse apart. Not act; be.

她还会以为就是他干的呢，当那个男朋友就更好了，可以做出受了侮辱的样子，把开心馆闹个天翻地覆。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But they also made it clear that they are willing to act alone, if necessary, to pass a health care bill.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Oh,well,we're in Laodicea. Let's say 'To the Laodiceans,' and we can act like Paul sent it just to us."

比如在老底嘉的人填上“致老底嘉教会“,它就成了保罗寄给老底嘉都会的信“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Israel was chosen by Yahweh in an act of spontaneous love it does not imply her perfection an act of spontaneous love for the patriarchs.

以色列被上帝选择是出于一种无意识的爱,这并不暗示着她是完美的,只是对族长无意识的喜欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

And, it follows from him that political liberty means the freedom to act where the law is silent, as he says.

而他的政治自由意味着,我们可以在法律所认可的范畴内,享有充分的行动自由。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She says the main value of the new credit card act is that it "provides an opportunity for consumers to have more information."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

But then having found one answer, you can add to it anything that gets killed by the act of taking derivatives.

一旦你算出了一个答案,你就可以往式子里加入任何,在求完导后消失的项

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Others believe it began with psychologists and psychiatrists who deal with how people think, feel and act.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

None. When you walk through that door it's an act of free will, and I will not have anything other than complete silence.

走过那道门,是你的自由，我不会做其他事,除非保持安静。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It was thought that a civilian ship could get into Charleston Harbor before state forces could act.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

as we can think about something and then we can act on it.

与我们所做之间的联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says Congress can only act intelligently and boldly on the issue of climate change if the American public gives it no other choice.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

It enables them to think and act critically.

他还可以批判性地思考和行动。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

If,the commander said, the governor had approved the shelling, it would be an act of war.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And the act of working your way to it is known as shaping.

这种引导的行为被称为行为塑造。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Others believe it began with psychologists and psychiatrists who deal with how people think,feel and act.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

We noticed that sometimes we were tempted to locate the morality of an act in the consequences, in the results, in the state of the world that it brought about.

我们发现有时，我们倾向于,依据行为所产生的后果，以及对外界的影响，判断其是否道德。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Stress results when something causes your body to act as if it were being attacked.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

So, you cross link all the proteins in the virus, and you make a particle that looks like a virus but it can't act like a virus any longer because it can't replicate.

当病毒中所有的蛋白质交联后,就得到了一种看上去像病毒,却无法致病的病毒,因为这种病毒不能进行复制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It describes when someone else accepts responsibility to act in the interests of a child.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

In my experience, decisions moved with the process of risks, mitigation like malaises When the Taliban arrived in the village, it takes 96 hours for an army commander to obtain necessary approvals to act.

以我的经验来看，决定的执行是有一定的风险的,当塔利班分子进入到村子后，一个军队指挥官要花去96个小时来获得必要的批准才能行动。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选