The new health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, said the virus does not seem to be as severe as once thought.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.

直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们，自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, yeah, I thought that would really be a good opportunity to get to know different cultures' literature.

所以我觉得这是了解不同文化的文学的一个很好的机会。

最喜欢的一门课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He thought their ideas about nonviolence and disobedience could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

The other great critic of the Miltonic simile for my money takes a completely different tack, and that's Geoffrey Hartman who makes an argument that might even be thought to contradict Fish's argument, although actually Geoffrey Hartman wrote his piece first.

在我看来，另一个对弥尔顿的比喻研究深远的评论家,采取了截然不同的方针，他就是杰弗里哈特曼,他做出了一个被认为是在反驳费什的观点，尽管实际上是哈特曼首先写出了他的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Scientists thought George would be more closely related to the females from Isabela than to other Galapagos tortoises.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

That is to say, theory has certain ambitions to a totalization of what can be thought that resembles or rivals philosophy.

也就是说，理论探讨的问题,与哲学相似或相媲美,而且倾向于把它完整化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Lena Horne later said that she first became involved with Lennie Hayton because she thought he could be useful to her career.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

And we might be attracted to the thought that the value of life is increased by its very preciousness.

我们可能会被这种想法所吸引,那就是生命的价值是因为它的珍贵而增长的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The young policeman thought anyone who claimed to be the emperor of the United State might be a danger to the public.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In this sunken city, the researchers found a stone carving that is thought to be an Atlantean soldier.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Because it was thought to be virgin, they weren't resistors, they weren't collaborators--it was there, it was martyred.

因为他本是一片净土,他们不是抵抗者,也不是法奸--只是因为存在所以殉难了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There were some who thought the earlier Missouri Compromise could be used to settle the issue of slavery in California,Oregon,and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

While they're technically private companies now, they are still thought to be related to the U.S. Government.

技术上讲,如今他们已经是私企了,但他们仍被认为与美国政府有关联

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Engineers thought the new nuclear submarine would be able to stay under water for two weeks or more.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For the first time she seemed to be taking a rest from the tiring act of thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

One of the inputs to the problems we're gonna be working on this semester and if you continue on in this world how much thought it takes to implement something, how much time it takes to run something, how much space it takes to run something?

我们将在本学期集中探讨这些问题,或者在课程之后你们也可以继续研究,为实现一些功能要有多少想法，在运行过程中又将花费多长时间，需要多大的空间？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In addition, more than ten million immigrants are thought to be in the United States illegally.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

And I thought it would be useful And I thought it would be useful to have to have opportunities to work with students opportunities to work with students about the issues about the issues outside the classroom outside the classroom that might either inform or impede that might either inform or impede their development their development as scholars.

我觉得，如果有机会与学生交流,我觉得一个有用的办法,会很有益,是创造机会和学生们一起处理,与他们讨论课外的问题,课外一些可能会影响或阻碍,这些问题可能促进或者阻碍,他们作为学者的发展的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They were very cruel. I thought,perhaps this beast can be taught to be my friend...

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Mister Webster said further that he thought Mister Clay's plan was one that should be satisfactory to the North and to the reasonable men of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

This was thought by many to be a positive change but in game rich environments where there was a lot of meat available, people could actually get many more calories per hour-- that is secure more food that would help fend off starvation compared to what they could get for people cultivating food.

很多人都认为这是一个积极的改变,然而 在那些富饶地区,获取肉类轻而易举,同样时间内,人类可以获取更多能量,相对那些靠种植获取食物的人类来说,这些地区有足够多的食物来抵御饥荒

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Republicans thought this meant that Blaine wanted to be nominated for president again.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

I think film mostly through the entertaining value and I know there is more to its essence I've never taking film class, so I hope the films might be interesting for us to discuss some philosophical concepts Never thought about like that.

我主要看到的是电影的娱乐价值,我也知道电影还有很多其他价值,我从没上过电影课,我希望这门课会很有趣,可以讨论一些哲学概念,我从没思考过这类问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Mating by individuals with similar genes was thought to be a problem.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

But when we thought about the second case, the intuition seems to be, body is the key to personal identity.

但当思考案例二时，得到的直觉似乎是，肉体是个人认同感的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because when we've thought about the first case, the intuition seemed to be, ah,personality's the key to personal identity.

因为当我们思考案例一，得到的直觉似乎是，人格是个人认同感的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选