Although interest in the World Expo has declined recently, many countries have made an extra effort to participate this year because China is the host.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

Humility and power come from this religious engagement because from the best of our traditions to go out and engage in the world in a positive, constructive way.

谦卑和力量源于这一宗教融合,因为我们走出去，并以积极的,有建设性的方式融入世界的传统是好的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We hand you a bunch of programming code that we wrote because this is very much the norm in the real world.

我们给你们一些我们自己写的代码,因为在现实世界中这都是非常正常的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He says it is increasingly important to do this analysis in connection with urbanization because more than half of the world population lives in urban areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And,the country should not do that because if the country starts to do this, any terrorist in the world could start hijacking somebody and then our country would be forced to make concessions."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

In fact, just because the world is round, you can already see if this is the Earth, to somebody that's the natural direction.

实际上,正由于地球是圆的,你们可以看到如果这是地球,对于某些人来说这才是惯常的方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Nabokov cannot meet his reader on the misty mountain ; because somebody has to agree to publish this book first; it has to exist in the world before that reader can meet it.

然而纳博科夫却不能在这座巅峰上与他的读者相遇,因为在那之前必须有人先同意出版那本书;,在读者遇到那座山峰之前，它必须首先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

And that you can't do, because in the real world of course Shelly and Kagan pick out just two different names of this very same thing.

你不可能做到,因为在现实世界里,薛立和卡根指的是,同一个东西的两个不同名字

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There are things that we can all relate to, so just because it is set in that era or in this mythological world or even a million years into the future, any movie that is worth its salt in this kind of genre should reflect issues that we deal with today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

That's because there are people in this world who are not getting medical care.

这是因为在世界上有些人,无法接受到医疗救助

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

This proves to be really difficult in the real world because in the real world it's hard to pull apart genes and environments So, you and me will have different personalities ? Why?

这在现实中是很难区分的,因为现实中很难,把基因和环境分开来讲,你和我有不同的性格,为什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I have left out meat and fish, of course, neither of them very common in this part of the world, but meat was common enough, because there were sheep and there were goats, even when beef would have been very hard to get.

当然我没提到肉和鱼,它们在希腊都不是很常见,但相对来说肉类已经相当常见了,因为即使在牛肉都很难搞到的时候,这里还有着绵羊和山羊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, nobody starves in advanced countries of the world today because of this system.

所以，今天的发达国家里无人挨饿,就归功于这个制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the cases of specific language impairments suggest that all of that is wrong, because there are children in this world right now who are plenty smart, who really want to communicate, and who are entirely social creatures but they can't learn language.

但是特殊言语损伤的案例表明,以上的所有都是错的,因为现在在世界上,会有些足够聪明,想要交流,完全社会生物的儿童,他们无法学习语言

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选