BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

He began and ended his career as a decadent, I suppose a reader of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.

他以颓废者的形象开始和结束其事业，我想作为佩特和王尔德的读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You could use a "who" question to find out where the problem began.

你可以用“who”问句来找出问题从哪里开始。

Who 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Early in the nineteen hundreds, a woman named Anna Jarvis began a campaign to honor mothers in America.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

He didn't believe it and in order to disprove the Oracle's statement he says he began a lifelong quest to find someone wiser than himself.

他不相信,且为了加以反驳神谕论述,他说自己开始了一趟终身的找寻,要找出一位比自己聪明的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In nineteen forty-four, Borlaug left his job with DuPont, and began a project to increase Mexico's wheat production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

After that, I began a series of readings of novels that emphasized more what you might call the history of literature, the history of literature's forms and ambitions.

在那之后，我讲了一系列的,强调文学史，关于文学形式和理想的，历史的小说阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He began as a juggler, someone who can keep several objects in the air at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Christianity began as a persecuted religion that ultimately captured the Roman empire only after centuries of hostility towards the Empire, towards Rome, towards the secular state in general.

基督教最初作为被迫害的宗教,最终征服了整个罗马帝国,而在此之前,它经过了数世纪,对帝王对罗马以及,对整个世俗世界的反抗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Pat Bodnar has more. "And the Pursuit of Happiness" began as a monthly column in the Opinion section of the New York Times.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

So medieval commentators for example began to speak a little bit more openly about some of these features.

所以，中世纪的注释者渐渐开始,提及这些特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

After he'd published all of his major poems, he began publishing a spate of works that attempted to re-create British culture from the ground up.

在发表了他的所有主要诗作后，他开始大量发表其他著作,试图以这些作品完全重建英国文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In two thousand five, Ball State University in Muncie,Indiana, began a program called "Degree in Three."

VOA: special.2009.07.23

So central banks around the world began to manage became managers of inflation rather than defenders of a gold standard.

所以，世界各地的中央银行,开始管理，成为了通货膨胀的管理者,而不是金本位制度的守卫者。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

I began this class with a demonstration of -that illustrates two very important facts about language.

我用一段演示来开始今天的课,这段演示阐述了语言非常重要的两个事实

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In nineteen thirty-seven, Bob Hope began a series of radio programs called the "Woodbury Soap Show."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

And I don't know, I used to love to quote from it but then I began to realize I'm only quoting that because it's about a guy's eye being gouged out.

我以前讲课很喜欢从中引用,后来我意识到我引用它只是因为,它写的是一个人的眼珠被刨出来而已

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

With a sixty-five dollar loan, she began a sewing business and began to earn money.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

And the other direction is instead of creating all this uncertainty, which all the intervention does, quite a size of Americans are particular interventionists, it gave a tremendous certainty because it began the practice of cause plus contract military equipment suppliers.

另一个方向是,除了制造这些不确定，就像所有干预政策带来的一样，许多美国人,很赞同干预政策，因为他能给人们确定感,因为他开启了,合同行为,与军事武器供应商的合同。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

But Todd Duncan began a major change in classical musical performance in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But the holiday began as a way to remember soldiers killed in the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

- I mean that-- what began as, ah we'll do this this weekend turned out to be like a 100-hour project to revamp this whole thing.

我是说，这周末我们要做的是,改进整个工程，但这可能需要花100个小时。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Mia Farrow began a hunger strike to protest the situation of refugees in Darfur.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

But it began a Critical Study of the poems for the first time and Critical Methods were applied to history for the first time ever, really, in the early nineteenth century and thereafter.

这开启了诗歌批判研究的先河,十九世纪初期,人们首次将批判理论应用于,历史文献的研究中

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He began a program of observing not only Mars, but also Venus and Mercury.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions, and that began a new phase in the story. And, again, to repeat what I said last time, there were certain stunning physical resemblances between what Homer said and what we could see.

所以,神话传说并不只是人们的空想,这样事情就有所不同了,同时,我重复下我上次所说的,《荷马史诗》所描述的世界,在当今确有令人吃惊的实物证据

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When God began to create heaven and earth," And there's a parenthetical clause: "God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light."

起初，上帝创造天地“,这里有一个插入语句：,“上帝说，要有光，就有了光“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选