And she says it is important to her that her two daughters know about that part of their background.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The work of art arises from a background of other works and through association with them.

艺术作品源于对其背景下,其他作品的理解和联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If we talk about the background of the question,

如果我们讨论一下问题的背景，

Do you 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I knew some of it, but it has been interesting to do the background on it."

VOA: special.2010.06.28

But what if of certain abusive families and any religious background in location who really confine women to their home?

但是，如果在某些发生虐待现象的家庭里,有着某种宗教背景,而这种宗教背景又允许监禁妇女的情况发生呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"It kind of happens in the background, because I have an iPhone which I love.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

So, there we go. But somewhat here in war and peace of battle is slowly being relegated to the background.

所以战争与和平问题,就慢慢转移到这个背景上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Despite his Catholic background, Kennedy also became a strong advocate of abortion rights and later, a supporter of same-sex marriage.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

So generally and those of you coming from high school computer science background probably used An Integrated Development Environment which actually is a gooey with menus and icons and such.

对于你们这些,有着高中电脑知识背景的同学可能一般用,即“集成开发环境“,它有一些菜单，图标等等。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

(Speaking in French) One young man described being denied jobs at upscale French hotels, ostensibly because of his North African background.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.

这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Star players endure hours of interviews,talking about their football background and their preparation for the big game.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

So, that's the kind of stuff: a little bit of background about myself. So now, 1 let's talk about the perspective of 3.091 All of this will be posted. You can take notes.

就是这些事情，我自己的,一点背景介绍，现在，我们谈谈这门课程的远景1,这些都会放到网站上去，你们可以记笔记。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

All right. With that by the way of background, let's go on to two -what we might call rhythmic devices here--two rhythmic devices.

以此为背景知识,我们来继续学习,两种节奏类型

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We come from the same background, we have lived many of the same struggles and we have faced many of the same challenges that you have faced.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

But then there is this very explicit discussion of her Catholicism, a little further down: My background and my inclinations are both Catholic, and I think this is very apparent in the book.

然后这里有一段非常明确的,关于她的天主教义的讨论，在往下看一点：,“天主教是我的背景和取向，我想这在书中有很明显的体现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There is also a scene of a banner with an American flag in the background and the New York City skyline with the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

So I don't know your mathematical background, but the textbook has an appendix, which is a reasonable measure of how much math you should know.

我不太清楚你们的数学功底,但教材上有附录,它能清楚地告诉你,你应该掌握多少数学

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

I hope that makes sense as background, and I'm just going to basically illustrate that basic concept with a few examples throughout the rest of the lecture.

我希望将这些作为背景,在这堂课接下来的时间里,我会用一些例子来说明这些基本的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Okay, that's sort of a broad background about the content of the course.

那么,这些就是这门课程的基础背景

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A newspaper account of the time described the background.

当时的报纸是这么描述事件背景的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But not for the sake of hashing through the history of philosophy not for the sake of analyzing philosophical concepts the way analytical philosopher would, but rather,with that kind of background preparation, seeing things that others might not.

不是为了深入讨论,哲学的历史,不是为了像,一个分析哲学家那样,分析哲学概念，而是在有了那种背景知识的准备后，看到一些别人可能看不到的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I was at Princeton from 83 to 86, got my master in chemical engineering Now i serve as the administrator of the United States Envrionment Protection Agency My engineering background is extremely important to the job i do everyday.

3-86年我在普林斯顿大学学习，取得了化学工程的硕士学位,我现在的职务是,美国环境保护署署长,我的工程学背景,对我现在的日常工作十分重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

This is generally the general introduction of the brain that I wanted to provide, giving the framework for what I'll be talking about later on throughout the course so that I might later on make reference to neurons or neurotransmitters or the cortex or the left hemisphere and you'll sort of have the background to understand what I'm talking about.

以上这些就是我所要讲的,关于大脑的综述,为我以后要讲的课程,建立起框架,往后我可能会提到神经元,神经递质,大脑皮层,或是大脑左半球,而拥有了背景知识的你们,便能够理解我在讲些什么

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The chart you see here suggests that 72% of last year's students had zero prior computer science background.

这个图表显示的是%,去年修这门课的学生中,72％的人没有计算机方面的专业知识背景。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选