Her real self was not Eartha Kitt but Eartha Mae, a child given away by her mother.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

If you had a course in probability and statistics, then you'll find it easy to follow, but it's self-contained again.

如果你们学过统计学或者概率论,你们会比较容易理解,也需要你们独立学习

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Other cells in the immune system recognizing that this is a foreign molecule, but is being presented in the context of a 'self' cell.

免疫系统中的其他一些细胞,识别到它是非己物质,但它已经被识别为己方细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But in two thousand four the Center for Rural Development had the idea for a bank to help self-employed workers buy their own rickshaws.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

It kind of feels like generosity, but it's also a self-interest that people perceive.

看起来这好像是出于慷慨，其实这也是人们的一种自利心。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But for a moment, his self-control weakened.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.

霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But Gomez ends "Try to Remember" on a positive note, as Gabi gains self-confidence, educates herself and finds the strength to become an independent young woman.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But he will warn that American downplaying international efforts could prove a self-fulfilling prophecy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

We'll see why they have to separate that in a minute, but they do that these lipid bi-layers solve that problem for them and they're self-assembled structures from these molecules called phospholipids.

我们马上会讲到为什么要把它们隔离开,脂质双层膜解决了这个问题,而这些自主装结构,就是由磷脂分子组成的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18