Many people think these classical works are not as great as some of his musical plays for Broadway such as "On the Town,"
VOA: special.2009.08.02
It is the center of his life and it explains the Greeks devotion to the independence, to the autonomy of the polis, and their desire to beautify and make it as great as it could possibly be.
这理论是伯里克利的一生所求,并且它解释了希腊人民,为何对独立,对城邦的自治权,如此忠护,以及他们为何如此渴望,去竭尽全力地美化和建设城邦
And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,
在这门课上,我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品,比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图,
He had great energy. And his love for people was as great as his energy.
VOA: special.2010.08.01
The epic also explains and mirrors the rise of Babel as one of the great cities in the Ancient Near East.
史诗也解释并且映射了巴比伦王国的兴起,它是古代近东繁盛的城市之一。
He showed that simple American English could be as fine an instrument for great writing as more complex language.
VOA: special.2010.03.21
Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.
弥尔顿死于1674年,死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。
"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.
我走出去推了一辆推车到我的公寓,卡洛马克思的纸型山随着,东边太阳升起变成了红色。
We continue the story of Marian Anderson and how she went on to gain great success as a singer.
VOA: special.2009.01.18
Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.
有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说,在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。
It would show that we are not ready as a nation to enter into great questions of foreign policy.
VOA: special.2010.07.22
In the first place, he judges the people to be more reliable, as he tells us, than the great.
首先,他断定人们更为可靠,正如他告诉我们的,比起大人物们来说。
They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.
VOA: special.2010.02.11
But we quickly see that the people referred to as Basileus in Homer are not like the great King of Persia.
但回溯一下那些在《荷马史诗》中被称为,巴赛勒斯的人,却并不像波斯王那样强大
All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
VOA: special.2009.09.22
As you know, Stephen Schwarzman is a graduate of Yale College and he's one of the great stories of our century.
你们知道,史蒂芬·施瓦茨曼是耶鲁大学的毕业生,同时也是这个时代的一个传奇
Lake Champlain also has the same kinds of environmental problems, including pollution and nonnative sea life, as the Great Lakes.
VOA: special.2009.01.05
But the attitude here, as in "Easter, 1916" and Yeats's other great poems, is complicated.
但此处和1916年的复活节“,和其他诗里,他的态度很复杂。
As one of the great nations, Lodge said,the United States must not fall out of this line of march.
VOA: special.2010.07.08
But it's not, you're right, it's not as full and powerful device as comedy and humor're in Hitchcock It's a great deal of humor.
喜剧因素,但是,没错,和希区柯克影片的喜剧和幽默比,这些不够饱满和有力度。
He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.
VOA: special.2009.05.02
Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.
这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》
Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.
VOA: special.2011.01.12
One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"
Then,as the boat was carried to the top of a great wave, the captain looked across the water.
VOA: special.2010.03.06
.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."
如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节,它并不像你所想的,“好的,结局一定是在最后一页“
The Great Recession gave some mothers no choice but to work, as job cuts hit hard at men.
VOA: special.2010.04.23
You want Indian food, there're a lot of great Indian spots on Ambrose as well. What did you want?
如果你想吃印度菜的话,在阿姆布罗斯有很多印度餐馆。你想吃点啥?
But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.
但是出身很好,于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。
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