But experts say non-communicable diseases -- those that do not spread from person to person -- are the leading killer today.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

For a shirt verminously busy Yon soldier tore from his throat, with oaths Godhead might shrink at, but not the lice.

衬衫上满是虫,士兵用诅咒撕开他的喉咙,上帝可能会退缩而不是虱子。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So I'm actually writing my own fiction, and no, it's not easy. But you can actually learn from, if you read other writers.

我现在也正在写自己的小说，真的不容易。但是你可以从你以前阅读的作品中学到很多。

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But another engineering student from India,Bikramjeet Singh Grewal, says he does not have time for much fun in the sun.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

But I am a novelist, not a critic, and I can excuse myself from explication de texte on that ground.

但我是个小说家，不是批评家，对于我以此为根据而说明,我可以为自己找借口。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This was not only true for farmers, but also for immigrants who came to the United States from foreign countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

They're producing electrical signals in the brain they're not recording from the brain, but it's not that big of a difference.

它们只能向大脑发出信号,而不能记录反馈大脑的信号,但是这两者技术要求差别不大

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

His family was poor. His early education came not from school teachers, but from whatever books he could find.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

These are not actually from last spring, but they're typical enough that I was too lazy to make some new quotes.

这些成绩不是来自上个学期，但是他们足够典型了,以至于我都懒得举新的例证。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But critics say banks are profiting mainly from trading activities, not from making loans to small businesses or homeowners.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Theory was both hot and cool, and it was something about which, following from that, one had not just opinions but very, very strong opinions.

理论很热门，也很酷，对于理论，人们不光有想法，而且是非常强烈的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But he was angered by reports from the area that the Nicaraguan government was not getting the supplies to the victims.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

But I would say, definitely from the Israeli side, I would say, it's definitely not motivated religiously.

但是我当然是从以色列的角度来看，我会说，当然不是完全宗教的原因。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But Anne Neal from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says higher prices do not guarantee a better general education.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

So, there's a tremendous variety of material in this library, and it follows from the fact that it's not a book but an anthology of diverse works, that it's not an ideological monolith.

在这座图书馆里有丰富多样的材料，因此这不仅是一本书,而是各种各样文献的合集，这不是什么讲思想道德的长篇大论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But he did not receive as much interest from the national media as other top players like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But this does not stop him from working. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

This is maybe not widely appreciated, but every decade that goes by we do a better job of incentvizing people and preventing them from being discouraged by risks.

也许在当下，一些措施看似并非有效，但若以十年跨度回望,我们所采取的措施确实能有效地激励人们,并且防止他们因风险受挫。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But his resignation was not the only exit from a job that was in the news this week.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

And so, I'm not going to spend any time on this because we've discussed it in detail, but we know from previous lectures that people will be generous to others.

这一点我就不费时详解了,因为我们之前已经详细讨论过，我们从之前的课堂上学到,人会对他人慷慨。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia says not to judge too much from the first year.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Because it's identified with the Spanish empire, with Spain, which not only wanted to extract taxes and to extract taxes and other revenue from its most prosperous province, but wanted to force people to remain Catholic.

因为天主教是与西班牙帝国联系在一起的,西班牙不仅从这个最富有的省份,榨取税收和其他收入,还想强迫人民保持天主教信仰

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

North Dakota gets its nickname, "The Flickertail State" not from some bird, but from a little squirrel.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

So from that point of view it's probably good, but from the point of view of wanting to eat more foods that you prepare yourself and not eat process, and package, and things like that it may not be so good.

就这一点看来还是很不错的,而对于想多吃一些自己做的食物,而不吃加工好的精包装食品那类食物的人,评估就没这么容易了

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 Miller's interest in the average man did not stop him from exploring major problems of society.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The beauty of this is, it keeps me from getting lazy, and not only testing my program and the thing that found the bug, but in all the things that used to work.

运行函数而不用再输入了，这其中的,美妙之处在于，它让我变的勤快了点,并不是仅仅的去测试程序发现bug方面，同样适用于那些正常工作的模块。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But he was not afraid of it. He said: "Our separation from the old Union is complete.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

You should be able to maybe print out a blank copy of those notes from the website not for memorizing them, but now just understanding how the photoelectric effect works.

你们应该可以从网站上打印一份,这些笔记中的空白的纸张,不仅仅是为了记忆，而且现在要理解,光电效应是如何工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So justice is higher, individual rights are privileged, but not for reasons that depart from utilitarian assumptions.

所以公正是更高级的，个体权利是种特权，但并不能出于功利主义假设之外的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选