Another American study says obesity has become as great a threat to quality of life as smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

I know to be a judge, you can't just become a judge, you usually have to practice as a lawyer first.

就我所知，你不能一开始就成为法官，你必须先成为一名律师。

为了更美好的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Take me out to the park, etc... " It's amazing that that melody has become as popular as it has given the fact that it's really hard to sing.

带我出去逛公园,等等,奇怪的是,这段旋律,很流行,而事实上,它真的很难唱

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In recent years,however, asbestos has become feared as a threat to human health.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

In other words, an enormous variety of aspects of literature, understood as "literariness," can become the dominant.

也就是说，文学的很多方面，也就是我们所说的文学性，都可以占支配地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But rodeo clowning has become such a valued specialty that most clowns are as young and vigorous as the competitors.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children, by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.

所以，他用一种方式去怀念，渴望去这群人还是孩子时，生活过的地方，渴望经历那种时光，也渴望成为他们之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The survey released Monday indicates trade finance has since July improved in most APEC economies as more cash has become available.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The vacillation and debate become quickest here as one point of view gets one line and the other the rhyming next line.

踌躇和争论在这里吵得很激烈,一种观点占一行,另一观点在下一行。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

These cheap cars, for which India has become a production hub, are becoming popular as the world grapples with a recession.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Shortly after we decide to become a consumer brand, I realized that our technology was not as good.

公司转型后不久，我意识到我们的技术没有那么好。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

"It has become a diagnostic tool that informs and guides our efforts as we seek to build a global partnership to combat modern slavery,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

I don't feel I've got any sort of account going here as to how consciousness works, even if I become a dualist.

我觉得就算我是一个二元论者,我也还是不懂这番对于意识的解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The short movie,which began as an undergraduate project at Flinders University in Adelaide, has become an advertisement for cultural harmony following a series of assaults on Indian students in Australia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

It's as if he's become Apollo as he himself takes over the action of touching.

似乎他自己将要变成阿波罗,接过触动别人的重任那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"It creates a societal change, an economic growth, it creates jobs.As the world has become so interconnected, it's provided an opportunity for entrepreneurs no matter where they are to access any market that exists,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

But I was invited to come, and I would say as a trailing spouse to become, to work as a counselor on the campus of Earlham College, which is a small, really wonderful and far reaching, -Wonderful, wonderful college.

而我是应邀前往，或者说,是当了个跟班的，做了顾问,留在了厄勒姆学院，这是一所规模不大，但非常优秀,影响广泛，-很棒，很棒的学校。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says many don't even have the active ingredients in them. There is a tendency to treat all fevers as malaria in West Africa,and resistance to otherwise effective treatments, like cloroquine, has become a problem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

How many people here are either psych majors or expect to become psych majors or cognitive science as though you could raise your hand to?

有多少学生是主修心理学的,或者准备选心理学作为主修的？,或者准备选认知学作为主修的？,有的话请举起手？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the United States, a vote in Congress is expected in the coming weeks that could authorize up to $4,500 to individuals who trade in vehicles in what has become known as the "cash for clunkers" bill.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

As division happens and the developing organism acquires more and more cells, individual cells become differentiated, they become more and more like their final mature form.

分裂过程不断发生,以及发育中的有机体对更多细胞的需求,细胞个体便逐渐分化,它们越来越接近成熟细胞的样子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"There are several problems with this notion of a failed state," "One of them is that somehow in Mexico,all of a sudden, the government has become heavily corrupted by cartels as if there wasn't corruption in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

I want to talk about Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory, which is a very important and a little technical-- psychologists can become mathematical and technical as well.

我会谈到,卡尼曼和特维斯基的前景理论,这是很重要的理论,同时需要一定的数学计算,心理学家也可以精于计算,和擅用技巧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Vitamin D has become a very hot topic in medicine now as we are discovering very high levels of vitamin D deficiency in our population, not only in the U.S.,but worldwide" Vitamin D helps our bodies absorb calcium and helps form and maintain strong bones.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

At first there was doubt and controversy, which has completely gone away, as more and more examples of this writing have become available and scholars are now able, by and large, to be confident that they know what these things say.

开始的时候还充斥着质疑的声音,而现在已经无可争议,因为已经有,越来越多这样的文字出土,学者们现在,对辨认出这些东西的含义,相当有自信了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It is a fact,unfortunately, that the word democracy has become a code word in recent years for regime change and maybe for armed intervention regime change, but at the end of the day, there is a core value that Americans have stood for, that we have to continue stand for, and we can't allow that as well to become a fundamental impediment to improving the relations we are talking about."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

So just as the harlot tells Enkidu after his sexual awakening that he has become like a god, so Adam and Eve after eating the forbidden fruit are said to be like divine beings. Why?

所以，就像Enkidu的性觉醒以后，神妓告诉他,他将成为一个具有神性的人，亚当夏娃吃了,禁果以后，也会变成具有神性的物种，为什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Treat a man as he can and should be, " and he shall become as he can and should be."

一个人能够或应该怎样便怎样待他，他便会成为能够怎样或是应当怎样的人“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选