His eyes were old. He could not see, but his ears were wide open to every sound.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

But what we seem to be justified in believing is not just any old explanation, but the "Best explanation."

但是,我们认为正确并坚信着的,不是某些随便的陈旧解释,而是,最佳解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's Dickens in part, that stereotype of old London, of the urban working class, but it's not just Dickens. Moby Dick is here too.

其中有狄更斯出现，有对于伦敦及当地工人阶级的,刻板印象，不仅仅是狄更斯的影子，还有《白鲸记》

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the seventeen-year-old decided not to go to college but instead play for the National Basketball Association.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

It's a matter of inference, not just to any old explanation, but inference to the best explanation.

这是逻辑推论的结果,不是随便什么陈旧的解释,而是最佳解释的推论结果

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

for it was not the old man who was a problem for me, but his Evil Eye.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

But,he'd helped modernize the economy, and he did not restore the church to its old power.

但他推动了经济现代化,他并未让教会重新得势

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.23

The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They still lived in the same old house, but they did not talk.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

This is a point of view specifically associated in Yeats's late poetry particularly, but not only, old women, as he says on page 886, back in that General Introduction for My Work.

这一观点具体和叶芝晚期,的诗歌相联系,尤其但不仅仅是老女人，886页他说，在我的作品简介一书里。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and I baked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing and decorated it.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The old gold standard was supposed to maintain the convertibility of gold in currency but now we're not even backing it with currency anymore with gold anymore ? so what does it mean?

旧的金本位制度目的在于,保持金子与货币的转换功能,但是现在我们甚至都,不用货币来支持它了，或是用金子,所以这意味着什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The the Afrikaaner Resistance Movement (AWB), which the 69-year-old farmer helped found in 1973,vowed revenge, but says it will not react violently.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Any of you who have access to a four- or five-year-old, a sibling or something-- Do not take one without permission, but if you have access to a four- or five-year-old you can do this yourself.

如果你身边有四五岁大的孩子,兄弟姐妹什么的,一定要先得到同意再去试验,如果你身边有四五岁大的孩子,你可以自己去试试

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Hopefully things will get better quick, you know,because I love fishing, but not at 45 years old."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The nostalgia here is not for the old West, but for the young West.

这里怀念的不是老西部，而是新西部。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Prime Minister Fischer has already said he does not want to stay in politics, but instead return to his old job as head of the Czech Statistical Office.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Well, we all think accomplishment's important, but it's not as though any old accomplishment is important.

我们都认为成就是很重要的，但不是所有旧的成就都是重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We are, as I said, early in the semester when I said I'm a physicalist, I believe that people are just machines, but we're not just any old machine.

我们是，就像我之前说我是物理主义者时，我相信人只是机器，但我们不是旧机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选