The president's radio and Internet address follows his Thursday speech near Wall Street in New York, in which he argued for new laws to protect consumers and hold financial firms accountable.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

So even social security would still be at odds with the minimal state that Milton Friedman argued for.

因此即使是社会保障,也是弗里德曼主张的“小政府“所反对的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He argued for the notions of operant conditioning to be extended to everyday life and argued that people's lives would become fuller and more satisfying if they were controlled in a properly behaviorist way.

他认为我们应当,将众多操作性条件作用的概念,应用于日常生活之中,他还认为，如果能够以行为主义者眼中,恰当的方式来控制人们的行为,那么人们便会拥有更加充实美满的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some Republicans have argued that Sonia Sotomayor is too liberal for the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

That, of course, I argued in those lectures, opened it up for the threat of mortality.

当然，我在那几堂课中对此观点提出了反对意见，以必有一死的威胁反驳了它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

For Aristotle however politics has a priority to all the others because as he has argued man is the political animal.

对亚里士多德而言,政治优先于其它学科,因为如他所主张人类,是政治的动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They argued that more than $12 billion was spent on Pakistan during the previous Bush administration with little to show for it - a point underscored by Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in this exchange with Ambassador Holbrooke.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

And I've argued-- I've shared with you my reasons for thinking that those arguments are not compelling.

而我也辩驳过了,我给你们讲过为什么我认为,这些论证并不具有说服力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

China has acknowledged the need to limit its carbon emissions, but argued that greater responsibility falls on advanced industrialized nations like the United States, which produced large quantities of greenhouse gases for decades before China's rise as a global economic power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

I ended up in the newspaper the next day for having argued that they are way off on their investment opportunities because oil is such a volatile thing.

结果第二天的报纸就报导,我提出,他们在投资的选择上错得离谱,因为石油是易变的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So historians can and in fact have many times taken issue with a lot of Weber's historical claims. But he's invaluable, as the critic John Guillory has argued, for our purposes in the understanding of Milton and of a lot of the cultural business of the seventeenth century in general.

所以历史学家可以，事实上已经对韦伯的历史学断言,持反对意见，但就像评论家约翰古月里说的，对我们来说，在对弥尔顿以及很多,17世纪文化方面的事的了解上,他的意见是非常宝贵的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But who began to divide them up into early and late elements, which I thought drove the field of classics insane for about 100 years, while folks argued about the unity of Homer, the unity or not the unity of one of the poems and so on.

他的成就在于第一个将其分成早期和晚期,此举颠覆了古典主义长达一个世纪,那时的人们对于荷马史诗中诗歌,是否具有同一性有过激烈的争论

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some people have argued there's a module for sociology, for dealing with human groups, races and classes and so on.

有些人认为大脑中存在一个社会学模块,用以面对各种人类团体,种族以及阶级等

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now eating can perhaps be a metaphor for sex, some have argued.

有人说，“吃“也许是对性的隐喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.

勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But other people have argued that there is a special module in your brain for dealing with artifacts, that is, things like tables and chairs and cars and forks.

但也有其他人认为,在大脑中存在一个特殊的,专门应用各种人工制品的模块,这些人工制品包括了桌椅,汽车,以及刀叉等

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Putting aside,for the most part,the soul view, because I've argued that there are no souls-- although occasionally I bring it out just for the sake of comparison and contrast-- the main question we want to ask ourselves is how to choose between the body view and the personality view.

基本上可以把灵魂理论放到一边，因为我已经说过不认为有灵魂存在-,尽管有时候我会提到这个词,但那只是为了便于对比和比照-,我们要探讨的一个主要问题是,如何在两者之间取舍。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Individuals of heterodox belief but whose own views may stimulate others to question and think for themselves, all to the good, Milton, John Locke, people like Voltaire argued something like this.

如苏格拉底持非正统信念的个体,他们的观点,可能激励其它人反省,及内思，所有的好人，米尔顿，洛克及像伏尔泰等人,都做过类似的申辩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So for an example, he argued that the prison system needs to be reformed because instead of focusing on notions of justice and retribution what we should do is focus instead on questions of reinforcing good behaviors and punishing bad ones.

举个例子，他认为监狱体系需要改革,因为人们不应关注公正与赎罪,而应当去关注对良好行为的强化,以及对不良行为的惩罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选