"Furniture sales have been down at least 20 percent and the reason for that is people are holding onto their furniture items due to tough economic times for them,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

You say, oh oh, this is bad news, if this is the only--if only one rating agency does that, okay, but--and it's only AMBAC that's been down-rated, but you starting wondering.

你会说,这是个坏消息,如果只是一家评级机构下降了评级,而且只有安巴克一家被降级,那还好,不过你开始担忧了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And so... just moved down here to start that, I've been writing my own songs and

然后，所以……我就搬到这儿开始玩摇滚，我一直以来都在写歌，

我是摇滚音乐家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It had been almost ten years since the last major soccer league in the United States had closed down.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

That ratio may have been higher in the nineteenth century; it's gradually trending down, but it's a slow-moving thing.

在19世纪这个比率要高一些,然后逐渐下降,但这是个缓慢变化的过程

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down, "Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Second thing we've been doing, I want to highlight for you is, we've along the way, mostly just verbally rather than writing it down, but we've been talking about good style.

我们一直在学的第二件事情是,我想给大家强调下，我们一直在口头上说，而没有把它写下来，但是我们一直在说优秀的风格。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

So already, just from Firm 2's production the price has been driven all the way down to costs.

这样公司2的产量会,导致价格下降直到成本价格

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Come on down. Your role has just been changed because you're not wearing any socks today.

过来吧，你的角色刚刚已经改变了,因为你今天没有穿袜子。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Now, let's imagine I've been very lucky and gotten to you-- just get down on your knee.

现在,假设我非常幸运地伤到你了,请蹲下

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The people spoke a difficult language that had never been written down.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I reckon I been mean and low down,"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.

有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

That election ended in violence, when CUD demonstrators were gunned down while protesting that the election had been stolen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

What these people have to work with are the tools that have been passed down to them, The poverty of the people Frost writes about is important.

这些人需要用一代代传下来,的工具或者自己制造的工具，弗罗斯特所写的这些人的贫穷非常重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

British airspace has been closed down for the first time since the September 11,2001 attacks on New York.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

I should've been counting down--35, 30, 25 and so forth.

我应该在倒计时--35年，30年，25年等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Meanwhile,the Iranian regime has been cracking down on anti-government protests that erupted after June's disputed presidential election and flared anew last month.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And lately, the targets have been political. A deputy state prosecutor was gunned down in Ciudad Juarez, along the border with Texas.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Like if you're one of the people who hasn't been writing down things as you go along, and then you enter things at the end of the day, and I suspect that's the majority of you, you may have entered things into your record and then later gone and said, oh I forgot, I had this thing!

比如你是这些人之一,没有及时记下自己做的事情,在一天结束时你要提交信息了,我猜你们中的大部分,输入自己的信息,之后可能会发现,我忘了,还有这个

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Paramilitary troops have been activated to bolster the city's police force and new roadblocks are in place to shut down major roads.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

What he does is he takes this archaic state structure in which literally nothing had been written down.

他激进而彻底的变革改变了俄国陈旧的国家结构,这种陈旧的国家结构没有任何文献资料

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"It is very difficult to really pin down and there have been these sorts of accusations from the Revolutionary Guards in the past."

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

So, that's not exactly the case and we're going to start in at the point where right around this time of great confidence of feeling all has been conquered, there are some observations and discoveries that are made that completely break down these theories.

把测量弄的更精确一点,但事实并不如他说的这样,我们就要从这时候谈起,当时人们十分有信心的,觉得已经征服了一切问题,但有一些实验和观察,彻底粉碎了这种看法。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ben Bernanke has been very creative in doing maybe I ought to write some of these things down.

本。伯南克一直很有创造性的做,也许我应该将一些东西记录下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选