But first we report on American efforts to get Hispanics to take part in the population count called the census.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

It turned out there was no white van at all but in the first incident somebody saw a white van, this was reported in all the newspapers, then every other incident people started seeing the white van.

其实后来发现并没有白色小货车,但在第一起案件里有人看到白色小货车，所有报纸上都登了这条线索，结果在后来的案件中人们都看到白色小货车。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

but I think the first year, you have to live in the dorm.

不过我想大概本科第一年必须住宿舍。

关于宿舍制度 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But by the end of my first year in the city, I had become an expert with the microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

STUDENT: Right, we're going to do that in a second, but the answer is Fibonacci numbers, we define the first two.

学生：听不见：,我们马上会试一试，但是答案是斐波那契数列，我们可以定义下最初的两个数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But now the first worldwide study warns that one in six of the many different kinds of mangroves could disappear.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

All right. So, today we're going to be talking about molecular orbital theory, but first I wanted to just mention, in case some of you didn't hear what the Nobel Prize was this morning, and this was in chemistry, it went to three different chemists.

好的，今天我们要讲的是,分子轨道理论，但首先我要说，以免有些同学没有听到,今天早上的诺贝尔奖，这是化学奖，它颁给了3个不同的化学家。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself-- almost needs no justification.

但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的-,几乎无需辩解。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But the deputy prime minister said al-Qaida first recruited the young man in Britain when he was a student in London.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

All right. Now de Man's early career was influenced -I'm not speaking of the very early career in which he wrote these articles, but the early career involving the essays which were collected in his first book, Blindness and Insight.

好了，德曼的早期事业被影响到了,我不是指最早的时期,他写这些文章的时期,而是指收集在他在创作第一本书里的论文的这个事业早期，他的第一本书叫，《盲点与洞见》

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He was trying to describe electrons, but the theory said there are two roots in the quadratic equation and the second root is mathematically as interesting as the first one.

他当时只是想去描述电子,但是数学理论告诉我们,二次方程有两个根,而第二个根在数学上和第一个根一样有趣

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Later on when times are more secure, there's trade for grain as well for everything else, but when you're settling a place in the first place, you can't rely on somebody bringing it to you.

在之后相对安定的年代,有了粮食及其他各种物品交易,但当你刚开始在某地定居时,并不能指望有人为你供给必需品

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But last month the researchers from the MIT Media Lab won first prize in the Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

The graph is something I showed you on the first day of class, that over the last hundred years in particular, but what's shown on this slide is over the last 300 years.

第一节课我就给你们展示过这幅图,该图特别地关注了近一百年的情况,但它涵盖了过去三百多年的历史

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Again, I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have about that, but the first concept sheet has to do with this website and I'll come back to that in just a minute.

我很乐意回答你们这方面的问题,第一次作业应该与网站相关,我待会会说

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 first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Yes, that's probably true as a general observation, whether it comes through clearly on these two-- this comparison-- I'm not quite so sure, but there--I wouldn't say there's a great deal of detail in the first one.

是,可能从一般角度观察是对的,不管是否是通过,这两者的对比得出的结论,我也不太确定,但我不会说,第一首里有大量的细节处理

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

So, that translation causes people to believe that ; The story is giving me an account of the first event in time forward; But it's actually a bad translation.

因此，这种翻译让人们相信,这个故事将讲述时间存在以来的第一件事;,但事实上这是一个有误的翻译。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But first, a report on the anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in and the opening of a civil rights museum to honor it.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Or,he said human DNA really was present in the bone, but the bone was too small or low-quality to repeat the first results.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

We'll discuss this in a second, but why don't we actually record what the game is, that we're playing first.

一会再开始分析,我们先记录一下这个游戏的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

But it could be that we only grasp the forms in this life for the very first time.

但也可能是我们有生以来,第一次了解到形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But unfortunately, this is incredibly underwhelming certainly in the first week of a course.

但不幸的是，它不能让我们,在第一周的课程里留下深刻的印象。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选