She was poor. But she never said 'no' to a hungry person who came to her farm and asked for food.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The poor should be working. But you can assist them with loans, according to Deuteronomy. And these should be generous.

根据《申命记》所说，穷人应该工作，但你可以，通过借贷资助他们，这应该也是慷慨的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So if someone is from a poor family, but they get admitted to Harvard Law School,

所以如果有人家庭贫困，但是被哈佛法学院录取了，

对于奖学金制度 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Poor Joshua Norton was not dangerous or violent, but he no longer knew what was real and what was only imaginary.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

He said, my apologies for not answering your letter but my health is poor and--but it was a long letter.

他写道,非常抱歉没能及时回复,我身体欠佳,这是一封很长的信

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.04.09

But there is the opposite possibility, in the Beatitudes we read, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."

但是也有另一种可能性，《八福词》，里圣人讲，“虚心的人有福“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The second group did not. But some medical researchers refused to accept that a poor diet caused pellagra.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

But if I'm poor and I'm desperate, like I might commit a crime to feed my family and that can affect others.

但如果我又穷又绝望，我就可能会为了养家糊口而犯罪,那就影响到别人了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The couple stared. "My lady has huge wealth", continued the messenger, "But in one thing she is poor.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

But, anyway, this poor guy's not doing very well up there and becomes this sort of big spectacle.

但是这个可怜的人在这上面肯定不好受,还成为众人的焦点

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They said it was unfair. "It's a rich man's war," they cried, "but a poor man's fight.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

You feel heavy and it reads more because the poor spring not only has to support you from falling through the floor, but also accelerate you counter to what gravity wants to do.

你感到自己变重以及读数增加,因为现在弹簧不仅要支撑你,不让你掉下来,还要抵消重力的作用让你加速

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

There are still some public housing apartments for poor people, but many fewer than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Becasue the rich are getting rich more rapidly than the poor who are benefiting but not as rapidly, so you get inequalities inceasing on variety of dismensions which has political implications and which has the implications for how fast the poor benefit from the economic growth.

因为有钱人更加有钱,而穷人却更穷,所以地区不同,不平等现象的程度也不同,有些地区有政策帮助,有些地区的穷人还是可以,从经济增长中获益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But for many of the world's poor, finding a good way to keep food cool is difficult.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

First, let's talk about malnutrition. Now usually that concept gets used to talk about too little nutrition, but in fact, if you consider mal to mean poor rather than too little, and poor nutrition can really get manifested as under-nutrition, over-nutrition, or just unhealthy eating in general.

我们首先谈谈营养不良,现在我们通常把这个概念视同于缺乏营养,但实际上理解为"不好的",比"不足"更为恰当,一般而言,不好的营养可以被理解为,营养不足,营养过剩,或者仅仅是指不健康的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Kerosene costs less than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

But most of the free citizens of the Roman Empire, - of Rome, were poor people-- free, and even citizens, but they were poor people who weren't part of any rich household.

但是大多数罗马帝国的自由公民，都是穷人-,他们是自由的，甚至是公民，但都是穷人，不属于富裕家户。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

the officer said. "Nothing remains,General Lee, but to put your poor soldiers on their poor horses and send them home in time to plant the spring crops."

VOA: special.2009.12.17

So, these are poor electron donors but also a good electron acceptors, and we call these non-metals.

所以这些元素都不易失电子,但是它们是很好的电子受体，我们把这些叫做非金属。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But he was in poor health. Still,he kept composing, directing and speaking.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

But of course this is a poor, black child growing up in the South, and his expectations, what his mind can imagine, is always going to be greater than what the world can deliver.

但要记得，这个黑人穷孩子是在南方长大的，他的期待，他想象的东西，总好过现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Seiko wrote there was a similar fire in Kabukicho,Japan in two thousand one: "The building had a fire alarm apparatus but the switch was turned off because of poor maintenance.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

Those are the two biggest rating agencies in the U.S. today and they're extremely powerful organizations because they --Standard & Poor's also does letter grades, a slightly different system, but almost the same.

如今他们是美国最大的两家评级机构,而且他们是非常权威的组织,标准普尔也进行字母评级,体系上有些区别,但基本相同

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Poor people protested. But businessmen were satisfied.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In 1957, they reformulated it and they called it the Standard & Poor 500, but I'm using their long theories, back to 1871, so I can't call it the 500; I'm calling it the Composite.

在1957年,他们将其重建,并命名为标准普尔500指数,但这里用到的是1871年发布的理论,所以不能称之为500,我称之为综合指数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They are the highlight of the year in the U.S. broadcasting industry, but the telecast has suffered from poor ratings.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

John Moody died in the 1950s, but after he died, Moody's and Standard & Poor did something that Moody would not have approved of -they started accepting fees from the people they rate; some people think that you shouldn't do that.

约翰·穆迪在20世纪50年代去世,他死后,穆迪公司和标准普尔做了一些,穆迪绝对不会允许的事情...,他们开始接受被评级者所缴纳的费用,有些人认为不应该这样做

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They are borrowers that are thought, by the various models, to be likely to fail to pay on their mortgage and to have to be foreclosed; often low income, but also they're people with poor credit histories.

通过一些模型的计算,这些借款人,很有可能无法偿付贷款,抵押房产会被贷款人收回,借款人通常属于低收入人群,而且这些人没有很好的信用记录

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选