Canadian soldiers had crossed the Niagara River and burned a boat that was used to carry supplies to the rebels.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

And he started with a similar but different observation, and that was that cows get a disease that's very similar to smallpox.

他首先观察到一种类似但不同的情况,就是牛得了一种很像天花的病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Well, my family really liked that it was close and I really like that the community is really close.

嗯，学校离得很近，家里人都喜欢。而且我喜欢大家都很亲密。

公立学校和私立学校 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They were sure that Missus Trotter could be trusted and that it was safe to leave the money in her name.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

But they were fully formed adults and intellectuals, and that was a heady experience for a kid from Chicago.

但他们是很成熟的成人和知识分子，而这对一个来自芝加哥的小孩来说很不同。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"People made friends more. I noticed that people would sit with strangers and have conversations, so that was a great thing.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

He found finally some, even though Nala was so pure and so perfect-- he found one weakness and that was gambling.

他最终得逞,尽管那勒是那么地纯洁和完美,迦梨还是找到了一个弱点,那就是赌博

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That was evidence,Emperor Norton said, that John Brown was mentally sick and should have been put in a hospital for treatment.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

We hired people who we thought were really smart and for also last year we were just a few guys working around my kitchen and that was pretty fun.

雇用到了一些有天分的人,去年我们几个人,围在我餐桌旁工作，十分有趣。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

It said the Missouri Compromise was a violation of the United States Constitution, and that Dred Scott was not a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

He expressed his will that there be light, and there was light And that's very different from many Ancient Near Eastern cosmogonies in which there's always a sexual principal at work in creation.

他表达意愿希望有光，于是便有了光,这与古代近东的宇庙学解释有很大出入,在其中，创世过程中有性的因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The group made youthful and fun music that was very popular with both African-Americans and white listeners.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

So, for example, down here I wrote that it was n 2 and that it was h 2, but when I re-wrote the molecules up here, you saw that it's an h h single bond where it's a nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond.

比如，在这下面我写的是氮分子2,而这个是氢分子，但我在上面把这些分子的形式改写了，大家可以看到,这是一个氢与氢之间的单键，含一个氮与氮之间的三键。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

That sort of love and that obsession was made most tangible by maps.

这种爱和,和困惑因为地图变得的更加实际。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

She has said that her family was very poor and that she had cockroaches for pets.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And still through his mind ran a feeling that all was right that he should have her again as before,and everything would be explained.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And, this is all that was known at that time, seven metals, carbon, and sulfur.

这是当时所知道的了，7种金属，碳，和硫磺。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I lighted my lantern, and found that I was perched on a narrow ledge, almost at the end of my rope literally and figuratively.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

And that a burden was taken off the South by the loss of that Vietnam War.

越南战争惨败,卸下了南方的重负

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He wrote letters about killing himself and saying that he was the "most miserable man alive."

VOA: special.2009.02.09

I thought that was a just fabulous program and that generated very board bipartizan support.

我认为这个计划非常成功,而且得到了两党的广泛支持。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I did get to be on a submarine two summers ago and that was it.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

and that was the reason I wanted to mention that now.

让我想到这个问题,所以我现在就把这些说了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"When I was just a small kid I went to Corning Glass works and watched the glass blowers there and was really mesmerized by that.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

So people were dying of old age and that was really heart disease that was killing them they just didn't know, so it's multi-factorial and we'll talk about that.

老死的人实际是死于心脏病,只不过人们不知道这一点罢了,这是个多因素的问题,我们以后会进一步探讨

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"And that experience was life changing. And that's why I decided to start a charity."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

But that doesn't mean that every part of my body existed before I was born, and that every part of my body will continue to exist after I die.

但是这并不意味着,组成我身体的所有部件都是先于我的存在,并不是每一个部件,都会在我死后依然存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And decently reclothed, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where received by them lovingly, I feed on the food that alone is mine and that I was born for.

合宜更衣之后，我进入先贤的远古殿堂，他们都热情地接待我，我饱食专属我个人的丰美知识,那也是我生来应做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选