Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

This is a poet who, with his wife, practiced automatic writing, who believed that the dead spoke through the living.

他是这样的诗人，和他妻子一起，尝试着，自动写作，他们相信死人通过活人说话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is generally believed that in order for that to work you need the round ship delays in milliseconds, in 100 milliseconds, in 200 milliseconds, not 8s.

人们一般相信，为了运行正常,总延迟需要控制在毫秒的单位，在100毫秒，200毫秒以内，而不是8秒。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Could Milton actually have believed that poetic success was in some way contingent on what it is that you do, or what it is you don't do, with your body?

他真的信,诗的成功是某种程度上取决于你对你的身体，做了什么或没做什么吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The Romans actually were very pious in the sense that they believed that whatever land they were in, they should provide sacrifices and honors for the local gods, especially the important ones.

而且非常虔诚,他们认为无论身处何处，都应该祭拜当地神明，尤其是重要的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Some people find that a psychologically difficult thing to accept, but I've believed that pretty much all my life, so I'm quite comfortable with it.

有些人会觉得心理上,很难接受这一点，但在我的人生中，我一直相信这一点，我也坦然接受这一点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He also believed that showing love to babies by hugging and kissing them would make them happier and more secure.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

He believed that dreams had a manifest content, meaning; "manifest" meaning what you experience in your dream.

他认为梦是具有显性梦境的;,“显性“是指醒后所能记忆的梦境。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He believed that Americans -- North and South -- would accept the decision as the final word in the dispute.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And he believed that it was insidious, in order to have these sort of regional cultures.

他认为各地拥有不同的文化,是具有潜在的威胁的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Mister Boas believed that the environment people grow up in -- not family genes caused most cultural differences among people.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

okay I chose Middle because I believed that the other guy was going to choose Right and Middle was the best thing for me to do against Right."

我选中是因为,我认为另一个人会选右,并且选中是右的最佳策略

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But one of the men defending the town believed that the battle against the forces of slavery must continue.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She believed that training women to serve as support pilots at home could free up men to fly combat operations overseas.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

So during those years, from 3 to 46, We believed that that part of his brain did not develop in the natural way, because it was deprived of the kind of stimuli to develop in the normal way.

因此，从他3岁到46岁的这些年里，我们认为这部分大脑,没有正常发育，因为没有正常情况下的那些刺激。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Researcher Stephen Brusatte says scientists have believed that the physical qualities of Tyrannosaurus developed because of its large body.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

As a matter of fact, it's so widely believed that asset allocation is the most important tool that I think some people have come to the conclusion that it's some sort of law of finance that asset allocation is the most important tool.

事实上,我们普遍相信,资产配置是最重要的工具,以至有人得出结论,资产配置是最重要的工具,已经算是一条金融学定理了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Whig Party members and Abolitionists in the North believed that slave-owners and southerners in Polk's administration had planned the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He said he believed that he could support all of it and would work for its approval in the Senate."

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He believed strongly that archaeological findings were important external evidence for the basic historicity and authenticity of, for example, the patriarchal stories.

他坚信，考古发现对基本的历史真实性和,比方说族长故事的可信性来说,都是重要的外部证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Sidney believed this so much in fact that when he knew himself to be dying, having been mortally wounded in a battle, he ordered that all of his own poems be burned.

西德尼深信他的这一观点,甚至当他快死的时候，也就是在战场上受了致命伤以后，他要求别人焚烧他写的全部诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

At the time, scientists believed that a person at the top of the mountain would only have enough oxygen to sleep.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Because they believed-- they were made to believe that the teacher was better that supposedly he/she were.

因为他们相信-,他们被欺骗相信,这位老师的水平比实际情况高。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I know that there had been religious traditions that had been taught and believed in this possibility.

我知道有些宗教理念,会去教人们,相信这种可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选