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

In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And going into a different school, where all of the dynamics changed was probably one of the best and most exciting,

去一个不同的学校，所有的动力都改变了，这或许是最好和最令人兴奋的事情之一。

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Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

I would go so far to say that something like a satanic sensibility may be one of our best guides in our reading of Milton.

我大可以这样说，这种撒旦式的艺术感受力,可能是我们阅读弥尔顿时的最好引导之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Nobel Prize committee said the book provides one of the best descriptions of small town life ever written.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The best city would necessarily be one that seeks to produce the best or highest type of individual.

最优的城邦必然是,寻求孕育,最优或最高等级个体的所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The famous former basketball player Michael Jordan is considered to be one of the best "slam dunkers" of all time.

VOA: special.2011.03.25

I think the best answer to that is a quote from one of my contemporaries, who I think is one of the best investment managers out there.

我可以用我同行的一句话,来回答这个问题,他在我眼中是最优秀的投资经理

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

His name will come up again in several contexts later in this class, and then also in subsequent classes because he's a very fine nutrition researcher, one of the best in the world.

他的名字还会在这节课的后半段,及之后的课程中还会反复提及,因为他是一位非常出色的营养学专家,在世界上数一数二

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

So, call it a tie but then there's a lot more colleges that aren't yours than the one-- How many of you would you--say your best friend is somebody your-- currently on your same floor?

不分上下，但考虑到在耶鲁以外,还有那么多大学…,你们当中有多少人最好的朋友是-,现在和你在同一层楼上课的？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Atlas Shrugged" has been named in several opinion studies as one of the best and most influential books of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

I'm going to put down two different definitions of best response, one of which corresponds to best response to somebody else playing a particular strategy like left and right, and the other is just going to correspond to the more general idea of a best response to a belief.

我写出最佳对策的两种不同形式定义,一个是参与人针对对手策略的定义,比如这里的左路右路,另一个强调的是,最佳对策的广义上的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They helped make her book "Coming of Age in Samoa" one of the best-selling books of the time.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

So honestly, one of the best strategies in this course and in programming in general is-- generally speaking design, but it's these little tricks of the trade that will honestly make things much more fun, much more easier, and really allow you to focus on the juicy parts of the problem and not little tiny bugs that you may have started tripping over already.

说实在的，这堂课在编程方面最棒的策略之一,简而言之，就是--设计，但这只是一些让事情更简单,更容易的小技巧，让你专注于问题的核心关键,而不是一些可能让你绊倒的,这样或那样的小错误。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

This is definitely, probably one of the best things that I could have done. Just going to this university.

能进入这所大学肯定是我做过的最棒的事情之一。

寻找幸福 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One critic said it is the best production of A View from the Bridge he has ever seen.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.

我们尽最大努力去应用的标准,是汇总快乐，再减去痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

In spite of that fact, it turns out that vaccines are one of the best uses of our money in terms of extending the lives of population.

尽管事实如此,结论显示,疫苗是在众多延续人类生命,花费中最好的方式之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In the past,the six thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted for the one film they liked best.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Every study I know of, and I suspect every one John knows, about learning, stresses that students learn best when they take notes Ironically, even if they never look at them.

我知道的所有有关于学习的研究，还有我假设John知道的那些，都证明学生在自己做笔记的时候学得更好,讽刺的是即使他们永远不看那些笔记。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mr.Panetta said he believed the killing gave the United States the best chance to defeat al-Qaida since the attacks of September eleventh,two thousand one.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

And they're ready to go out, and Sal says: "Hold on a minute. I'll be right with you as soon as I finish this chapter," and it was one of the best chapters in the book.

他们准备出去，Sal说：,再等一分钟，我打完这一章就走,马上就好“,这是我书中最精彩的一章。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But it's like universally known. It's like one of the best fashion schools which is like really cool.

但是，算是众人皆知吧。它是最好的时装学校之一，很酷。

和设计专业的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人