His first years in the United States were difficult, like those of most immigrants at that time.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Next time to the Enlightenment and some people whom you might not think of at first glance would seem terribly enlightened.

下一次课是关于启蒙运动的,有些你们乍看之下绝对想不到的人物,却引领了那个时代

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And we hope that at the end of the class, every time you're confronted with some technical problem, one of your first instincts is going to be, "How do I write the piece of code that's going to help me solve that?"

并且我们希望到了期末，每当你要面对一些,技术问题的时候，你们的本能之一将会是：,“我怎么才能编写一个代码,来帮我解决这问题？“

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some polling stations stayed open late Friday on the first day of the balloting because voters were still in line at closing time.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.

这不一定是按时间顺序排列的，但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是，一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力，起源，思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

President Obama's first State of the Union address came at a time when his Democratic Party is still reeling from a stinging defeat last week for a U.S.Senate seat in the heavily Democratic state, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.

今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"You will not be forgotten as long as I am in this White House," (Applause) The gathering at the Interior Department in Washington is the first time in 15 years that a president has met with leaders of the American Indian tribes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

After crossing, the Israelites then celebrate the Passover, and that makes a strong link then to the Exodus led by Moses, also at the time of the first Passover. Moses had a vision of God at the burning bush. He was told to remove his shoes, his sandals, because he was on holy ground.

过河后，以色列人庆祝逾越节，这与,在出埃及记中的摩西有鲜明的联系，也是在第一次,逾越节摩西在燃烧的树丛中看见了上帝他被要求,脱掉鞋子，他的草鞋，因为他站在圣土上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24