Precious suffers horrible sexual and physical abuse from both her parents.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I tried simple glass, crystal and even precious stones.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

This is the pulsating vehicle for his precious theology of free will and for his politics of liberty.

这是他宝贵的自由意志神学观点和,推崇自由的政治主张的充满活力的载体。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

And we're ordering them into war, without looking at all the other ways we could achieve our objectives, and without recgnising the precious values of those lifes.

我们命令他们奔赴战场，却都没有考虑过些许有其它办法,能达到目的，我们意识不到,他们生命价值的可贵。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He spits in the pan and swirls again, gathering the precious dust in a small depression in the pan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

And isn't that clear already from their colors, the material that they're made of Gold and silver, these colors marked them as fashioned, precious objects, inorganic, and in all these ways beyond time and nature, growth or decay.

从它们的颜色上很容易知道，制作它们的材料,金银说明它们是,特制的珍贵的物件，非自然生长的，这些都是超越时间自然,不会生长或衰亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Gold ornaments are a traditional wedding present to brides and a gift of the precious metal during Hindu religious festivals augurs good fortune.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

It makes our life fragile, ephemeral, and as a result of that, more precious.

它让我们的生命脆弱，短暂，因此而更珍贵。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

India has snapped up nearly half the precious metal the IMF is selling to shore up its finances and increase lending to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

They think their children are precious and wonderful.

他们认为自己的孩子,是珍贵的，是好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We have strengthened our investment in our most precious resources - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the parks and public spaces we enjoy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

"All of you are jewels. You are precious and you touch my heart,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Family members rush to take advantage of every precious drop before the afternoon, filling plastic jugs,oil drums, and pails with water for use by the 15 people who live in this home.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Today it is a museum. Inside are precious artifacts from the family's daily life, including scraps of hand-written poetry and the manuscript of a polonaise written by young Frederic when he was eight-years-old.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04