He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But if there were a lottery and they'd all agreed to the procedure, you think that would be okay?

但如果他们抽签了，他们也都同意这一程序，那你认为就没问题，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They got Mexico to agree to recognize the independence of Texas, but only if Texas agreed not to join the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The wording is slightly different in all the indentures, but in general, we've settled eight or nine cases; companies sort of agreed and we negotiated a settlement.

在所有的行业里，用语只会有细微的差别，但是总的来说，我们已经解决了八个或九个案子；,公司们似乎也同意我们的观点然后跟我们达成了协议。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But sixty-six percent agreed that a professor should consider effort and not just the quality of a student's work when deciding grades.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

But today he has graciously agreed to talk to us on International Forum.

但是今天他很有风度地接受,我们国际论坛的采访。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But that did not mean all the women involved with Nancy Drew agreed on how she should act.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

President Obama said there is no guarantee that all the steps agreed to at the meeting will work,but: "I think we applied the right medicine.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Convention, OK, this negative sign is just a pure convention. You just got to use it all the time. If you use an old textbook, written when I was taking thermodynamics, they have the opposite convention, and it's very confusing. But now we've all agreed on this convention, and work is going to be with the negative sign here.

系统对外界做功的符号为负,这就是我们,在本课中的规定，纯粹出于统一符号的需要，有些教科书中，可能会使用相反的符号规定,注意不要混淆了，这门课上,我们将一直使用。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But finally, after much urging from other party leaders, he agreed to run against Grant.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.

我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But,while versions of the new language are being used, standards have not been agreed upon.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

I only started asking this in 1996 when the stock market boom was well under way, but already 69% of my respondents, who were high-income investors, strongly agreed.

996年时我才提出这种疑问,那时股票市场一片欣欣向荣,这些受访者是高收入投资者,但69%的受访者强烈认同这点

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He finally agreed to negotiate, but said the United States must accept 2 conditions.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

But Joshua has graciously agreed to us today on International Forum.

但是约书亚很大方地答应了,今天来到节目和我们聊天。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But ten banks agreed in June to repay almost seventy billion of that.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

But soon after his resignation, he agreed to command the forces of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Cleveland agreed. But he said the operation would have to be kept secret.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He finally agreed to accept the distribution bill, but on one condition.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

But all the old people agreed that he was Hiram Wallace.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

He agreed to go, but on his own terms.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

But several other NATO members, notably Italy,Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have reportedly agreed to boost their troop commitments.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Treasury Secretary Geithner agreed that the bonuses are unconscionable, but said there was no practical way for him to block them.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The final summit communiqu simply said NATO leaders agreed "these countries will become members of NATO" but no time frame was given.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Wrapping up his defense testimony, Mr.Taylor said he agreed to step down as Liberian president in 2003 in the interest of peace but was tricked by the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Libyan Ambassador Ali Aujali agreed, but said the Arab world is waiting for some concrete policy changes, especially in regard to Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Donors have agreed to scale back. But experts say donors can help the needy and a nation's farmers if they buy food for humanitarian aid locally rather than importing it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

And he pointed to the issue of trying to develop agreed standards of reform in the global financial world where progress has been made, but where much more work is required.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30