By the time John Henry was a young man, he was one of the best steel-drivers in the country.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Now, I wanted to compare it with another question that I--people have this simple idea that there's a best investment.

现在,让我们对比另一个问题,人们总是简单地认为存在一种最佳投资

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So I threw a party in New York, and her best friend, my co-worker came, and she brought her,

我在纽约开了个派对，而她最好的朋友，也就是我的同事，把她带到派对上去了。

第一次与妻子见面 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Visitors find it much easier to take a popular bus tour and see Barack Obama's best-liked places around Chicago.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

And millions of other people,"the average", benefit a great deal because of the study of the best, of the "growing-tip".

千千万万的“普罗大众，因对最优秀的个体的研究，而受惠。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In nineteen fifty-seven, he won a special award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best continuing performance.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Some other of his best-known plays include "All My Sons", "A View from the Bridge" and "After the Fall."

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Some of this--we tend to think,as modern people, that a written text is actually the best thing.

我们现代人通常会认为，文字资料是最可靠的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

At age thirty-eight he scored four goals as his team gave the best performance ever by a team from Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The National Osteoporosis Foundation says a test called Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry,or DXA, is the best test for osteoporosis.

VOA: special.2010.08.31

As far as I can see,the best option for the body theorist at this point is to add--no surprises here--a no branching rule.

据我所知，肉体理论者最好的选择就是,毫无意外地，是加上一条无分支规则。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Songwriter William Gilbert, in the musical "Princess Ida",wrote: "Darwinian man,though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved."

VOA: special.2011.03.13

Mr. Carl Icahn: Well, I mean, that--I don't consider that being--that's barely a strategy. I think that when you buy something, the best is--that sounds simple.

卡尔·伊坎先生：嗯，我的意思是--我觉得那不算是,-那不算是一个策略，我觉得每当,你要买什么东西时，最好就是--听起来其实挺简单。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the best-liked songs in Britain then was a song about the better life in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

You've got to think about what they mean, and that's one of the best things about physics because here's a person who is not looking for anti-particles.

你得去思考它们的意义,这是物理学最美妙的地方,因为有位仁兄本不是去找反粒子的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Later,he wrote a best-selling book, "Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Almost--the best analogy here is backing up a computer.

最形象地说，这就像给电脑备份。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The princess secretly loved a young man who was the best-looking and bravest in the land.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Aristotle, and his politics, made the point neatly, and I quote him, "As a man," - I'm sorry, "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst when separated from law and justice.

亚里士多德和他的政治学,很巧妙地说明了这点,我引用他的话来说,"作为一个",不好意思,"人类由于至趋完善而成为最优良的动物,但一旦脱离法律和正义,他就堕落为最恶劣的动物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Unfortunately, weight loss diets don't work very well, and that's one of the reasons why there is always a diet book on the best-seller list.

很不幸,食品减肥的作用不明显,正因为如此,最畅销书榜才总有减肥食品的书上榜

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In eighteen fifty-eight a design competition was held to find the best idea for planning this huge area in the center of New York City.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

But Patrick knows Steven pretty well; he knows those guys who run Coca-Cola are pretty smart guys, so Patrick knows that the guy who runs Coca-Cola is going to anticipate that the guy who runs Pepsi is gonna cheat on the guy who runs Coca-Cola, and hence the guy who runs Coca-Cola is going to play a best response to Patrick's cheat on quantity.

但是帕特里克也很了解史蒂文,他知道可口可乐的经理都很精明,帕特里克知道可口可乐的经理会预料到,帕特里克会违约,因此可口可乐的经理就会寻找最佳对策,因为帕特里克违约在先

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

His awards include a best writing Oscar for the nineteen sixty-eight movie "The Producers."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

You are saying that's one of the things that would've been better if... And making it permanent. -Right And that's the very good sort of bang for buck, permanent tax change So you both view this actually as a missed opportunity, at best really, right? -Yeah It's the best it can be said for. Alright.

你的意思是，有些事原本可以做得更好,这个是其中之一，对吗。,关键在于任何措施都必须是长期的，-没错,恒定的税率改制，绝对划算,这么说，你们两位都认为,这充其量只是错失良机而已，对吗，-没错,也只能这么说说了，是吧。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Combinations of drugs are able to suppress the deadly virus in the body -- if not a cure, in the traditional sense but the next best thing.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

I have connected to the course's central server from my own laptop and via dot slash chart am I about to run a little program that depicts as best we can with what with generally call ASCII art -- -- it's really all you can do in a terminal window like this -- our numbers from the past few years.

我已经通过我的电脑连接到了课程的中心服务器,在我的笔记本电脑上，通过键入“，/chart“,我将要运行一个被描写成,“ASCII码艺术“的小程序-,在一个这样的终端窗口中你们都可以做到-,过去几年中我们的人数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I call the second argument "The argument from recycling"-- not the best label I suppose, but I've never been able to come up with a better one.

我把第二个观点称为"循环观点",可能这不是最好的名称,但是我没有想到更好的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选