Therefore,steps were taken virtually to abolish it,'". While systemic failure was the key factor for some observers, others highlight the role played by individuals working to defeat Soviet communism from within.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

It makes big mistakes by individuals and they should be accountable for it No question about it.

投机者个人犯的错也不小,他们也应当为此承担责任,这一点毋庸置疑。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So any kind of ideas, I think any community is defined by its religiosity; they're still made up by normal individuals and human beings.

我想，任何的想法,任何的社会都是由其宗教信仰所定义的,它们仍然是由个人所组成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In advance of President Obama's meeting this week with BP executives, the government is in discussions with the company on a multi-billion-dollar fund that would pay out on claims filed by individuals and businesses.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

It may be owned by other individuals but it has its own rights and responsibilities as if it were a person.

它的所有权也许属于其他个体,但它有自己权利和义务,就像个自然人一样

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The award recognizes the work of individuals who have helped human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Such individuals will subordinate their own desires and pleasures to the group, and live a life by a strict code of honor.

这种个体,会将自己的欲望与愉悦,放到团体之后，过着一种严格遵守荣誉规范的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They can do this by helping individuals they know who may be experiencing loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Humans banded together instead of working more as individuals and started hunting animals in groups, groups of animals hunted by groups of humans.

人类开始聚集在一起,而非单独行动,人类开始集体狩猎,集体狩猎帮助人类捕获大量的动物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Those individuals suffer from diseases caused by mutations or changes in genetic material.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This eight-year-old nonprofit group is supported by foundations, companies and individuals.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

It is a complex system of public and private insurance plans, regulated by the government but still giving individuals a good deal of choice.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Legislation that the president and his fellow Democrats want to pass by the end of the year would create a government health insurance option to compete with private insurers, require all individuals to have health insurance and mandate employers to provide it.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

At an estimated $87 billion, the measure would expand health insurance coverage to about currently without it,create new private insurance marketplaces, And,like the slightly more expensive measure passed by the House of Representatives, it would end a practice by private insurance companies of denying coverage to individuals with existing health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25