And NASA is also being called on to develop new technologies to solve problems involved in long-term space flight for humans and robots.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They could keep for themselves the prestigious title of "chaste" even though they were obviously performing an act that almost anyone in an earlier period would assume disqualified them from being called chaste.

他们可以为自己享有这有声望的“贞节“称号“,尽管很显然他们所表现的行为,几乎早期的任何人都会认为,那是没有资格被称为贞节的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The modern tools and his Wild Well Control techniques earned Red Adair and his crews the honor of being called the "best in the business."

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Being unimaginative boys, they called themselves "The Eagles" and "The Rattlers" but as--what happened was, being separated they developed distinctive cultures.

这些没什么想象力的小男孩就把队伍取名为,“老鹰”和“响尾蛇”,接着，分组以后,他们就形成了各自的文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The situation along the southern border is being called a national security threat.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

This particular lecture course was being given by Georges Poulet, a so-called phenomenological critic.

这门特殊的演讲类课程由乔治斯，波利特，一个现象学批评家授课。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He was just twenty-two, but he was already being called a musical genius.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

This issue received a kind of classic formulation in Aristotle's distinction of what he called the good human being and the good citizen.

这个议题接纳了一种经典的公式,即亚里士多德界定,何谓好人与好公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Within ten years, Detroit was being called The Motor City.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

We just did some basic breathing techniques and what's called guided imagery where you picture yourself being your true self, from what works in your past, what feels right in your past.

我们只是进行了基本的呼吸技巧训练,和所谓的意向引导,你从过去生效的例子中，从过去感觉对的例子中，描绘出真正的自我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So it is being called "The People's Car."

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Low-income people were being given adjustable rate mortgages with very low starter rates, called "teaser rates," " that would be raised in the future.

低收入人群贷款时会享受到刚开始利率巨低的可调利率,但是随着时间的推移利率会慢慢增长“,这就是所谓的“引逗利率。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is being called "the festival of freedom" as the city commemorates the day 20 years ago that the Wall fell.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Yesterday, on M.L. King Day, I had the privilege of being on at least four radio programs about this new book I have out called A Slave No More, some of them quite terrific.

昨天是马丁·路德·金的纪念日,我有幸被超过四家电台的问答节目邀请去,介绍我最新出版的一本书《无奴之国》,有些问题很有深度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Also,the effectiveness of such watch lists is being called into question, as the man charged with trying to bring down flight 253 on Christmas Day was not on the U.S.'no fly' list.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The writers of the study have called for stronger rules requiring cattle to be treated before being sold at market.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

He was beginning to join ranks with those early seventeenth-century English Protestants who imposed upon themselves rigorous and strict codes of behavior and self-denial, and who were increasingly being called by their enemies Puritans.

他要开始加入,17世纪早期英国新教徒的行列,那些人把严格的行为准则和自我否认,强加到自己身上，还不断被敌人称为清教徒。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

But they called for investigation of a large number of reports of voter registration cards being sold.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

One of the popular plays of the time, called "Our American Cousin, " was being performed at Ford's Theater, not far from the White House.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

While he says the deadly incident is being thoroughly investigated, Mr.Brown said the so-called partnering program of training Afghan police and soldiers will go on.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

She says the IPU prides itself on being what she called a 'talking shop', and does not impose penalties on countries accused of violating parliamentarians' rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

The issue is far from being settled. The United States has called for Israel to freeze settlement construction, but in response Israel insisted the freeze would be time-limited and exclude settlements currently under construction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The New York demonstrators, who included activists from Latino,Caribbean, and Asian communities in New York as well as local clergy members, called on President Obama to act immediately to stop Arizona's law from being implemented.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28