He said slavery had not tied the states of the Union together, but had always been an issue that divided them.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

He had what they called "Livery servants", not just servants, but servants who were wearing livery, it look like a military uniform.

他拥有一群被叫做"制服仆人"的仆人,这些人并不仅仅是仆人,而是穿着制服的仆人,他们的衣服就像军人穿的军装一样

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

but the friend does not look like he is in a good mood. In fact, he had many drinks and he's crying.

但你的朋友看起来情绪不佳。事实上，他喝了很多，并且在掉眼泪。

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Kristen Iversen says he did become rich, but not until they had been married for seven years and had two children.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

They served him on gold plates with gold silverware, and he had huge ponds stocked with not only freshwater fish but saltwater fish.

因为子爵用金盘子及金银器皿来款待他,在他的城堡外面有一个巨大的池塘,里面除了河鱼,甚至还有海鱼

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He had money and fame. But they did not cure his loneliness,his drinking, or his marriage problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Virgil would go on to be a great epic poet but not until after he had written these pastoral eclogues and then after that, after he had written the georgic poems, only then does he write finally the great epic poem The Aeneid.

他会成为一个伟大的史诗家,但这一直到他写出这些抒情诗之后,在那之后，在他完成了那些田园诗篇之后，直到那时他才最终完成了史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He said that coming in second or third did not count, but one had to win,win,win.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

At the far end of the hall he went into the bedroom he had once shared with his twin brothers, which now, in 1955, was his alone, but he stayed in his room for not more than two minutes. When he came out, he had on the same sweaty shirt.

在走廊的尽头，他走进卧室,他曾和他哥哥一起住在这间卧室，现在，1995年的时候，他自己住了，但是他在里面待了,不到2分钟，走出来的时候，他的衬衫湿透了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But he was surprised that he had not been afraid to go.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

And all of a sudden he had a crisis Well, I'm not going to get into the depth of it but our banks, because they wanted to make more and more money--and our investment bank, Wall Street--kept issuing different paper against mortgages so it made it simple to give a mortgage.

突然间危机降临在了他的头上,嗯~我不想继续深谈这个问题,但是我们的银行，由于它们想,赚越来越多的钱--还有我们的投行，华尔街--一直都在发行各种各样的抵押贷款票据,那样抵押贷款变得更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But he had forgotten that he could not bend his fingers.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He had not only written really quite daringly on behalf of the execution of this particular king, but he wrote another pamphlet, Eikonoklastes , which is a shocking defense of just regicide in general - not just in England, but as a kind of political principle.

他不仅对处死国王一事大胆的发表言论,还写了另外一本书，《圣容破坏者》,这本书为正义的弑君做了惊人的辩护,-不仅是在英国的这次弑君，还是一条普遍的政治原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the former Bosnian-Serb leader says he will not attend the official start of his trial because he had "not enough time to prepare his defense."

VOA: standard.2009.10.25