The rescue operation to free him, approved at the highest levels of the British government, is being criticized in both Kabul and London amid reports that the captives were close to being freed through negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

So within a couple of generations people could move up from being the lowest slaves to two generations of being free Roman citizens.

所以几代以内,奴隶能从最低社会等级,上升两位，成为自由的罗马公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The feeling of just being free to wake up whenever you want after waking up early all week,

那种能睡到自然醒的感觉，在一整周不得不早起以后，

I like实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The thought is that, there's a kind of incompatibility with being free and being determined.

以上的观点是,自由和被决定,这两者是不相容的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Earlier this month Syria and Turkey signed what is being described as an historic agreement, which allows visa-free travel between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

And in fact in one with the girl describing her side, she several times emphasizes this need for protection, need to be free from being torn down from people around them.

事实上像一个女孩子表达的那样，她好几次强调了需要保护的愿望，需要逃离那些打倒她的东西,逃离身边的人们。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"And we're seeing very strong growth in subscriptions and subscription revenues." FT's online readers can currently access up to 10 free stories per month before being prompted to subscribe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

God learned immediately after creating this unique being, that he will exercise his free will against God.

上帝在创造了这种独特的生命后马上意识到，他们将会以自由意志违抗上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We are trying to encourage Burma to conduct the kind of internal dialogue with all of the stakeholders including Aung San Suu Kyi that could lead to there being fair,free and credible elections next year,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

In my free time, I so look forward to not being on the computer.

空闲的时候，我太希望不要对着电脑了。

如何利用空闲时间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I mean, they live in the house, they get fed,probably with everybody else, they work with the master; the difference being that they are slaves rather than free men.

他们住在奴隶主家,他们和大家一起吃饭,他们和主人一起耕作,唯一不同之处在于,他们是奴隶而不是自由人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If we all have a desire to know, ? doesn't this connote something universal, that all should be free, that all should participate in ruling and being ruled as citizens of a city?

如果我们都有求知欲，这不就意味着一种普遍性吗，即所有的人都应是自由人，所有的公民应参与城市中的统治,与被统治的活动？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We have, we get free admission there, so, being FIT students.

所以，作为FIT的学生，我们可以免费进去。

学生们的艺术热情 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But again, if you think of the possibility of doing that for all eternity and never getting away from it, never being free from it, the positive dream of immortality, I think, becomes a nightmare.

但是想想如果永远,那样下去，永远不法逃离，永远无法解脱，永生的美妙梦想，就会变成恶梦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But we've got free will, so there's got to be something more to us than just being a physical object.

而人有自由意志,所以在我们身上有着,超越物理实体的特质

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