Most people at that time thought it was not important for young women to learn anything more than to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

I think that deposit insurance is very important but we didn't have anything for corresponding accounts at brokerage services until 1970.

所以存款保险是至关重要的,在1970年前,在经纪服务业务中,对于对应账户还未有保护举措

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Some writers have pointed out that it's interesting that these humans are not being punished for religious sins, for idolatry, for worshipping the wrong god or anything of that nature, and this is important.

有些学者指出，有趣的是,人类并非因为罪孽，崇拜其他的神,或者因其本性而受到惩罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Our mandate is to collect anything that relates to Africa, and this is an important event.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

It might be very important and insightful, but you're not saying anything especially interesting about death when you say everyone dies alone, if it's also true that everyone eats their lunch alone.

很重要，很有见地，但这样提出每个人都孤独而死时,并未对死亡本身提出什么有趣特别的见地，因为说每个人都孤独地吃中饭也是对的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The prom is an important rite of passage.I didn't want you to miss anything.

VOA: standard.other

If Milton as a poet who had never really published anything significant thinks of himself as a virginal writer, then there's an important way in which Milton loses his virginity with his published version of Comus in 1637.

如果弥尔顿作为一个诗人,或者作为一个童贞情节的作家,从来没有出版过任何自我思考的重要作品，那么就有很重要的一点,弥尔顿在1637年出版的《Comus》中失去了童贞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选