Some men were afraid of him because he was so rich and powerful.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

I'm using the word "stuck," of course, because the Lady had been stuck so famously and so prominently in Comus.

我用“束缚“这个词当然是因为在中，当然是因为在中那个显而易见被束缚着的妇人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because your store might not do so good, if you just first open and no one has ever heard of you,

因为你的商店也许会没那么好。如果你是第一次开店，没有人听说过你的话，

想开精品店 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Lennon and McCartney, because I listened to so much of it growing up.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think it's an incredibly exciting time because we can now draw on so many different sources that we are influenced by, and I sort of feel like anything goes."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Built bridges and roads and automobiles, so we can get from one place to another relatively quickly because of that.

桥梁和道路的修建以及汽车的出现,使我们能够快速地,从一个地方到另一个地方

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We are so happy for this qualification because it is so important for we Ghanaians and the whole of Africa."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Why? Because there's more to life than just pleasure and the absence of pain, or so it seems to me.

为什么？因为生命不仅仅是,享受快乐，避免痛苦，我是这样认为。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We like them and they like us also, so that is why we love this area here, because of the people,nothing more,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

I am making light of it and I think it's somewhat justified, because the evidence is just so scanty.

我很鄙视这个观点,我认为我是有道理的,因为证据实在太有限

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And everybody is being kind of downhearted to hear such shocking news because people didn't expect that Michael would have died so soon,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Because usually it doesn't work. And so one of the things that I think is very important is to always begin by testing each unit.

因此我认为非常重要的一件事情,就是开始测试的时候先对,每个独立单元进行测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And here my favorite program book so far has been the Iliad, because I think you get the full spectrum of human experience."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Because so much of what we do in chemistry does take place with constant temperature and pressure.

因为化学中我们所做的很多东西,都是在恒定的温度和压强下进行的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"This will wedge itself in so tightly and completely block the airway that within minutes, because of lack of oxygen, a child will die."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And, one of the reasons why the role of the dominance of Paris is so great is precisely because of the centralization of the French state.

巴黎能够取得支配地位的一个原因,恰恰就是法国政府的中央集权化

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"It's part of the problem of the entertainment and tourist industry that you are so dependent upon a buoyant economy, because one of the first things that people cut is their discretionary leisure spending."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

And he had a miserable life until then because he always had illnesses, some of which might be even psychosomatic. So he was the optimist and the one who lived well with the pessimist.

那之前他生活得很悲惨，因为,他总是病魔缠身，有些是精神方面的疾病,因此他属于乐观主义者,而且能够和悲观主义者相处的很好。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

A happy marriage for Milton was founded on a couple of like-minded opinions and values, - their ability to converse with one another -- and so this is why the notion of divorce for reasons of incompatibility is so important to Milton, because compatibility in marriage is the very essence of marriage.

对弥尔顿来说，一段幸福的婚姻是建立在,有着相似观点和价值基础的情侣间的，他们与彼此交谈的能力-,因此这就是为什么对弥尔顿来说离婚这一概念,无论如何都十分重要，因为和谐共处,是婚姻的精髓。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was really difficult for me to shoot the old-style 'gunslinger' guns because I have tiny little baby hands and they are really large and heavy, so just the physicality of actually having to pull that off was really difficult.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns, and it's remarkable how they all look so much alike, because they're all inspired by this originally Greek model of the city.

如果你现在去土耳其,叙利亚，以色列，约旦或埃及旅游，就会发现当地考古挖掘出的古城镇，都惊人的相似，因为都是根据古希腊模型建的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

It's because they're changing enforcement of the taxes and changing amounts of loopholes, so most countries have a tax rate of about a third, but corporations are paying less than a third of their profits to taxes.

是因为政府改变了征税的强制措施,并改进了征税中存在的漏洞,因此大多数国家的税率都在三分之一左右,但是公司实际支付的税额都少于,他们利润的三分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"But I think the committee made a mistake in giving the prize so soon,frankly, because it somewhat discredits and cheapens the whole notion of the Peace Prize because we haven't yet seen if this Obama approach really is going to make a difference in solving problems.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

There are nine keys for my left thumb alone so I'm kind of switching between these on the back here and many others, and because of that I can go very high and I'll just demonstrate that.

我的左手拇指就要控制九个音键,通过按动后部,和其他地方的音键,我就能吹出很高的音,我现在就来演示

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If there is one message to the Somali people, and especially to the students in medicine and nurses, we are going to help you,and were going to continue to help you, because it is so important that in times of crisis we have the right humanitarian assistance, (No Transcripts) I think it is important that the Somali people still have hope that the next batch of students are going to be able to achieve their graduation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But fortunately,again,this is why positive psychology as a network of scholars applying themselves to these ideas and ideals. It's so important because today you'll see throughout the semester that there are so many more tools that we can apply to our lives, to go beyond the zero.

但幸运的是，这就是为什么要学习积极心理学,大量的学者致力于,研究这些观点，它意义非凡,因为今天你们会看到整个学期的概览,有很多方法可以让我们的生活质量，达到正值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So you could have--be consuming fat that is in itself good for heart health let's say, or maybe protective against cancer in some ways, but it's also adding calories to the diet, so you want to have the optimal amount of fat and not over-consume it because of the calories.

所以你可能是在食用,有益于你心脏健康的脂肪,打个比方,又或是在某种程度上可以抗癌,但它也给你的饮食增加了热量,因此为了减少热量应该食用适量,而非过量的脂肪

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选