"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It's not the same as it was when I was growing up and it was almost, for a child, it felt scary.

它现在的模样和我小时候的不一样了。那时候，对于一个孩子来说，这个地方很可怕。

过去的时代广场 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In "Mowing," the scythe makes a sound as it cuts, and that sound is delicate, it's quiet, it whispers.

在“割草“中镰刀割草时发出声响，这个声音很微弱，安静，像低声细语。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She felt her heart tremble every time he shot an unsuspecting bird as it was singing in the trees.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

As it was, He picked the best, the smartest, the most loving, the least sentimental, the most unimitative master He could have possibly picked.

事实上，他选中了最好的，最聪明的，他最忠诚的，最理智的，他能选择到的最独特的人选。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Taos Pueblo you see today looks almost as it did to the Spanish when they arrived almost five centuries ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The time was in the early 70s, so factory farming was not well-known, was not as dominated as it is today, but it still existed.

那时是70年代早期，工厂化养殖并不为很多人所知,也不如今天这样占主导地位，但当时已经出现了这种方式。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Earlier this month, Hollaback! released an application for the Apple iPhone that lets users report harassment as soon as it happens.

VOA: special.2010.11.29

The third area is what I might think of is an evaluation or assessment as it sometimes is called.

第三领域我认为是,评价或评估。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Cape May now is as popular a summer holiday place as it was at the turn of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

So, you can imagine what happens as it gets deposited into your bones, which is not the ideal situation after a long day in the lab.

所以你可以想象,当它碰到你的骨头时候会如何，当你在实验室,呆了一整天后这样可不太好。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

When he was earnest in discourse, these shone, as it were, a bright- as if a bright live coal within it.

当他认真地在谈话，两只眼睛便闪闪发光，就好像明亮的燃烧着的煤块。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The elephant needs to eat for about eighteen hours each day in order for it to grow as large as it does.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It provides water for drinking and cooking for the people who live in Taos Pueblo today, just as it has for centuries.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The road moves back and forth and around corners as it moves up the face of the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

So we're going to be doing political science or political science as it meets Game Theory for the rest of the day.

我们将在今天接下来的时间学习政治科学,亦即是政治和博弈论的结合

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The road is narrow and the traffic is often slow as it travels through each of the small towns of the Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

It's not so much what's in the proposal as it is that this is the time for reconsideration.

这个计划的内容并不复杂,而如今正是一个反思的好时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Each is meant to represent the light of freedom as it shines on the seven seas and seven continents of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

So perhaps as it stands, the system of dietary laws does in fact emphasize reverence for life.

也许照此来说，饮食教规的确强调了对生命的崇敬。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Leaders of the European Union say they will help Greece as it struggles under a mountain of debt.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

So, if you go and read Phil Mag 669-1911, you'll see Rutherford's model as it's presented.

如果你去读读1911年哲学杂志的的669页，你将看到卢瑟福的模型就和这展示的一样。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would on the ground.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

In fact, it took the same number of steps as it did in the other case, because each time I'm cutting it down by a half.

因为每次我都把问题的规模,缩小一半，这很棒，好，接下来让我们这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I fully understand the value of what you are driving at, but frankly, the narrative as it now stands simply will not support a more general or hopeful conclusion.

但你的提议太含糊不清，说实话，你说的,无助于更好的结局。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选