The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Maybe somehow we misunderstood how the argument goes and it doesn't exactly-- although these two arguments seem parallel, they're not, in fact, parallel.

也许我们误解了这个论证到底怎么进行的,其实不是的,虽然这两个理论看上去是类似的,但其实它们并不是类似的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There were two well coordinated nash Equilibria although one was better than the other.

那个博弈有两个纳什均衡,尽管一个比另一个更好些

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The two generals are expected to take up their posts in the coming weeks, although they have not yet been confirmed by the U.S.Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

Impiety need not be the same thing as atheism although Meletus confuses the two but it does suggest irreverence even blasphemy toward the things that a society ? cares most deeply about. Yes?

亵渎神明不必然等同于无神论,但Meletus将两者搞混了,但那的确意谓着不敬,甚至是亵渎那些,社会最深刻关切旳事务，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

House-Senate negotiations aimed at reconciling the two versions of the bill are not expected to begin until the new year, although informal contacts are likely already under way.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Although Democrats are assured their 60 votes, through various compromises and support from two Independent senators, Republicans used the remaining hours of floor time Wednesday to re-state their objections.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The target pledges by the world's top-two carbon emitters are seen as hopeful signs for progress at Copenhagen, although a final package for global greenhouse gas reduction remains in doubt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26