She collected the work of the great ancient painters, but also worked hard to support modern artists beginning their careers.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But it's a very interesting thing that Kate and William are a very likeable, modern, ordinary young couple

但是，很有趣的是，凯特和威廉非常地讨人喜欢，他们是时尚又普通的年轻人，

英国皇室的意义 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the modern trial by jury is a British tradition that colonists brought to North America centuries ago.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

So, normally at this point, we do actually start class with a little bit of history from alchemy to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this year.

通常在这个时候,我们要从一些从炼金术,到现代化学的历史出发正式开始我们的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Simon and Schuster publicist Anna McKean says the girl detective stays true to her roots but is "ultra-modern."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

but in the presence of the modern food environment that provides access to these things, and to foods like a pop tart with fifty-six different things in it, the body gets thrown off.

但在如今的饮食环境中,我们可以随时接触到像是果酱馅饼,这样的集五十六种成分于一身的食物,但却不利于身体健康

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now listen as Mister Scheer reads the same sentences again, but this time in Modern English.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

.. I think that what's happening is these ideas-- Everything is evolving, so I'm actually presenting here our modern finance as the outgrowth of socialism, but that's not the usual way to present it.

我认为这些想法观念也正在-,一切都在进步，但我真正想表达的是现代金融,也可以被解读为社会主义的一个产物，这种解读并不常见。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But others say the extremely modern design of the buildings is insulting because it is not like the design of the city's historic buildings.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the power of this river has been demonstrated in more modern times.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The goal is to show that evolution is not an old, accepted idea, but continues to be the basis for new discoveries, itself changing with modern science.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

but the younger people, they look to America for more modern things.

但是年轻一代，他们看向美国，追求更时尚的事物。

看看世界 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But the modern inventors say rice hull ash works better than other materials.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

But just what was the nature of the revolution ? contemplated by our founder, Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science?

但什么样的革命,本质是我们这位创始人所思索，这位现代政治科学的创始人？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She repeated their simple but very modern forms in her own prints.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

In fact, there are some very old books that show this as the average, the sum divided by two arithmetic mean, but the modern practice is to use the geometric mean.

事实上，一些很老的书籍上,平均的定义就是算数意义的，总的来说被分为两种算数意义，但现代我们多用几何意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

But the modern world, to get back to that, to this Enlightenment world, individualism and a key aspect to that is hedonism.

但是回到现代社会,回到启蒙时期的世界,个人主义的关键在于享乐主义

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the Met also has an excellent modern art collection.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Right. But you're a upstanding modern Muslim but you're just trying to get by, you're just trying to do the right thing by your own faith tradition.

是的，如果说您是个非常优秀的现代穆斯林,但是您只是勉强过得去，您只是在试图做正确的事,根据您自己的信仰传统。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Both look something like the modern day elephant, but bigger.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

But many, particularly two-- bureaucracies and powerful standing military forces-- are characteristics of modern states.

这些变革,尤其是官僚机构和强大的军队,这两方面是现代国家的特征

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But only one third of China's vast population is enjoying a modern lifestyle;

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Eliot was there, in that essay on the metaphysical poets that I'm quoting from, defending as necessary what is the primary characteristic, not only of his own poetry, but really of modern poetry generally, what is often called its difficulty.

艾略特在描写那些抽象派诗人的文章里,就是我引用的那篇，极力维护,诗人的首要特征，不仅是因为他自身的诗性，更因为维护现代诗歌的必要，这是非常困难的一件事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The work ended up in a Vienna museum, but was seized by the U.S.government while it was on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And this movie, i don't know if I would recommend it that much, it's... Perhaps I'm being too pC, but I'm not convinced that for the modern woman, hanging around waiting for your prince to come is really a good strategy.

这部电影我真不知道怎么推荐给大家,也许我已经老了吧,但我课不觉得现代的女性四处游荡,等待你的白马王子出现是个好策略

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选