A foundling to start with,he would flourish later on as his powers waxed and his worth was proved, In the end each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute.That was one good king.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

And what I was trying to persuade her in this meeting was to take me on as one of her students, to let--to be my adviser.

谈话中，我试图说服她,接受我这个学生，做我的指导老师。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

so being interested in the wider world and what's going on abroad as well as here in the UK.

以便于让孩子们对更广阔的世界，像国外和英国本土发生的事情感兴趣。

创造美丽的世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Funk says it's not the same as one-on-one counseling, but she points out that the personal approach may not always be possible or convenient.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

In an organization,as well as on the individual level, are we focusing most on overcoming deficiencies ? what we are good at-- and getting better at it?

无论是组织还是个人自身，我们最注重的是克服缺点,我们擅长什么，并是否取得了进步？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"The volunteer spirit is as high now as it was on the first day."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Just they're really think they're there and I think that hearing the noises, singing the sites, going on the bus ride, I have to tell you the girl saw the fish Maggie when the girl was "I love fish sticks". As on my, their cutting fish is not such a big thing.

他们很投入,不论是听见噪音，还是唱歌，去乘公交车，有一个女孩,看到Fish，Maggie时跟我说,“我爱冻鱼条“，对我来说，没有鱼吃没什么大不了。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Proctor and Gamble signed on as a U.S.Olympic Team sponsor last September, but it was only last month that the U.S.-based company announced it would sponsor a P&G Family Home at the Vancouver Olympics for TEAM USA.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

So I wrote my dissertation on Byron as a result of that-- nothing complicated, no deep reason for doing these things.

所以我论文写的就是关于拜伦的-,没有太多的考虑，就是因为我喜欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"We have been tasked by our respective presidents the foreign minister and I, to put meat on the bones, so to speak, to get to work to make sure that the expectations of both President Zuma and President Obama are met as we work more closely together on our bi-lateral relationship as well as on regional and global challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

And this something we really hope to work on as an initiative addressing human health in all these different forms.

这是我们衷心希望着手去做,来重视人类各种形式的健康。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Miz Park says it was very exciting to meet him and see fans dressed up as characters on the show.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

And realize too, as we say on this home page here, by default, we anonomize you when you log into this bulletin board, whereby, you're all logged in as quote unquote students.

并且认识到，像我们说的这个主页，默认情况下，当你登陆这个电子公告牌，我们禁止你们，都匿名学生登陆。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

So all that Bohr, for example, had to go on at this point was a more classical picture of the atom, as you can see on the left side of the screen there, which is the idea that the electrons orbiting the nucleus.

原子的经典图像，你们可以,看到屏幕左边，这是电子，绕着核子旋转，的概念,他已经知道。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Mining of coal and logging of the forests became major industries as transportation improved on the rivers and railroads were built.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

You just need to be as good as everyone else on the market.

只需做得跟其他供应商一样好即可。

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

In June,the Obama administration appointed lawyer Kenneth Feinberg as the "special master" on executive pay also known as the pay czar.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

We'll talk more about promoters as they go on, for now let's just assume that we have a promoter that works in this particular cell.

我们以后还会谈到更多有关启动子的知识,而现在就假设这个,特定的宿主细胞里有个启动子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

As time went on there were other kinds of complaints, these about accuracy. So, for instance, his mother in the book is represented as being uneducated. Well, in fact she was a schoolteacher.

随着时间的流逝不断显现，比如，书里写他的母亲没有受过教育,事实上他母亲是教师。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As it happens, the plan was announced on May sixth -- the same day as the "flash crash" on American stock markets.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

And you must know, as I looked on, I saw those men in a short time make the former democracy " look like a golden age."

而我一路看来，所见这些人在短期内的作为,似乎使旧民主,看起来像是进入了全盛时代“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It was filled with a huge crowd on November 4th as the nation's next president gave his victory speech on election night.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

It's the expected payoff to Player 1 if shooting to the left as it depends on the probability that the goal keeper dives to the right.

它表示参与人1,从左路射门的预期收益,与门将扑向右路的概率有关

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

They had a number of partnerships that they put on as off balance sheet.

安然有众多的关联方公司,营运着表外业务

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They just sang these songs as they rode on the saddles of their horses across the cattle lands.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

Because it came from optics, you know, rays of sunlight and so on And in fact, even when we first started pulling synthetic fiber, the first synthetic fiber cellulose was referred to as ray on, because it looked like a ray that was being pulled.

因为它源自光学，比如太阳光线等等,实际上，及时当我们首先开始抽出,人造纤维，第一根人造纤维的纤维素,叫做光线，因为那条在被抽出的纤维素,看起来像是一道光线。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选