This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

That has to count as the toughest day, not only in my career, but also in the history of that particular presidency.

那可以算得上是最艰难的一天，不仅在我的职业生涯里，在总统任期的历史中,也是最艰难的一天吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I think almost 20,000 on that day died, and in the Battle of the Somme, as it unfolded, there were a million casualties.

在那一天我想大概有两万名士兵死去，并且在索姆河战役中，据显示，有一百万死者。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is being called "the festival of freedom" as the city commemorates the day 20 years ago that the Wall fell.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

While at the same time as I say congratulations, I want to remind you that I think it comes as no surprise given the lateness of Labor Day this year that this first test came rather early and for many of you much of this material you had seen in high school.

当我对你们表示祝贺的同时，我也想提醒你，今年晚来的劳动节,并非是什么惊喜,第一个测试来的比较早,你们中的绝大多数在高中已经见过了。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

(Recording) Keita says opponents of the military government are calling on and hoping that all the Guinean people, men and women,consider October 28 as a day of mourning.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Well at the end of the day we learned that in the Cournot Equilibrium, things were, as we perhaps might have anticipated-- things sat naturally between the extreme cases.

在上次课结束时,我们学到了,在古诺均衡下,多少如我们所预料的,事情很自然地处于极端情况之间

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The skies above large parts of Europe were empty for a second day Friday, as air safety authorities warned that the cloud of ash from Iceland's volcano is spreading.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.

在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

(Talking) "There were virtually a day and a half worth of flights that were canceled as a result of this storm, so that's a lot of people who have to be re-accomodated."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Like if you're one of the people who hasn't been writing down things as you go along, and then you enter things at the end of the day, and I suspect that's the majority of you, you may have entered things into your record and then later gone and said, oh I forgot, I had this thing!

比如你是这些人之一,没有及时记下自己做的事情,在一天结束时你要提交信息了,我猜你们中的大部分,输入自己的信息,之后可能会发现,我忘了,还有这个

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Mr.Obama's June 4 speech in the Egyptian capital will take place as part of a trip that will include visits to Germany and France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

He has much the same function and to some degree much of the same personality as what we would call a modern day CEO, that is to say there is a kind of anonymity and impersonality about the sovereign.

在一定程度上讲,他有着我们今天所谓的CEO的,一些义务和特性，也就是说,君主兼有一种非人格化的特性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well one reason I want to go back is you'll notice I've been putting up these lines on the board and when we visited elections on the second day, we said that you could think of that line on the board, as being not just left wing, right wing politics but also some dimension of products.

原因之一是我想你们将注意到,我在黑板上画了一条线,当我学习第二天学习的选举时,我们讲过你们可以想象黑板上有条线,不仅是左派和右派的政治家,还可以是某种产品特性

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选