"The law" he said, "is silent on the subject of divorce as far as this Court is concerned.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The nativity of Christ, as you can imagine, was a popular subject for early seventeenth-century poets for pious early seventeenth-century poets.

基督诞生，你可以想象，对17世纪的诗人来说是很受欢迎的主题,特别是那些虔诚的17世纪的诗人。

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With this first poem treating the subject of the nativity of Christ, Milton is able implicitly to announce something like his own nativity as a poet.

因为它的主题是基督诞生，弥尔顿能够含蓄的宣告一些东西,比如他作为一个诗人从此诞生了。

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So math -- or,as the British call it,maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

That makes the subject matter that we'll be discussing this week, as I say, as much a part of the history of criticism as it is of literary theory.

这样一来，我们这周的内容就变得至关重要了，就像我说过的那样，我们将学习到文学理论方面,乃至评论史上重要的一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Obviously,I think both those issues will be subject for discussion as the secretary meets with the new Japanese Prime Minister, the foreign minister and his counterpart, the defense minister,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Now, as I said last time, the subject of free will--or free will, determinism, causation and responsibility, this cluster of problems-- is an extremely difficult and complicated physical problem.

正如我上次所说的,自由意志这个主题 或者说自由意志,决定论,因果论,责任,这一堆问题,是极端困难和复杂的物理问题

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Speaking as he headed into a meeting with U.S.envoy George Mitchell, the Israeli leader brought up the subject of Iran's nuclear activities which Israel believes are for military purposes.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

So, English is what's known as a subject-verb-object language.

英语是所谓的主谓宾结构的语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"The current financial crisis has clearly demonstrated that risk to the financial system can arise not only in the banking sector, but also from the activities of other financial firms, such as investment banks and insurance companies that traditionally have not been subject to the type of regulation and consolidated supervision applicable to bank holding companies,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

..That's just as good as the land that you took, so... That's true. Locke says there has to be this right to private property in the earth is subject to the provision that there be as much and as good left for others. What's your name?

而且是跟你占有的土地一样好的。,的确如此，洛克说过,土地私人所有必须遵守的是,还有足够多足够好的土地留给别人，你叫什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Now one of the entries in Milton's commonplace book that touches on the subject of chastity strikes me as a particularly charged one for its terrifying image of violence.

在弥尔顿那本书中有一个条目,涉及到贞洁的话题,深深震撼了我,它感情十分强烈，还有暴力成分。

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After all, this is an extremely pious Puritan. But as late as the 1640s, this was not at all the epic subject that Milton was intending to use.

不管怎么说，弥尔顿是个很虔诚的清教徒，但是到了17世纪，40年代的时候，弥尔顿都根本没想过要写这个主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, as I mentioned, the official purpose of the tract is the political subject of licensing.

现在，就像我提到的，宣传小册子最正式的目的就是支持出版许可这个政治主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Literary theory, as I say, is skeptical about the foundations of its subject matter and also, in many cases, about the foundations of what it itself is doing.

就像我说的，文学理论，是对创作题材的怀疑,在很多情况下，也是对自身所做之事的基础的怀疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

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More generally speaking, we might say, they're subject to deterministic laws... that, as physical objects, it's true of them that they must do what the laws of physics and laws of nature require that they do.

我们甚至可以这样说,它们受制于决定性的法则,即,作为物理实体,它们必须按照,物理定律和自然法则的要求去做

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The exact shape of the curve is subject to discussion, but the point of diminishing marginal utility is that, as you get more and more money, the increment in utility for each extra dollar diminishes.

这条曲线的确切形状还有待讨论,但是边际效用递减规律的重点在于,你得到的钱越多,每额外的一美元的增长效用会相对减小

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Very frequently, as is the case in Gadamer, this meaning is called "the subject matter": that is to say, what--in thinking about literature in terms of form and content, let's say--we'd call "content."

高达美，又把这一含义称为主题：,当我们研究文学的,形式和内容方面时，主题即内容“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Toward the bottom of the footnote, 731, left-hand column, ust as in conversation, we understand irony to the extent to which we are in agreement on the subject with the other person."

在731页左边一栏脚注的最下边，他说道，“正如在谈话中我们能理解讽刺，he，says，，“…,在我们赞同对方观点的程度上“

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