Vice President Joe Biden is the first high-level U.S.official to visit Poland since President Barack Obama canceled the planned Central European missile shield proposed by former President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

All of this is Darwinian thinking and, I think, increasingly will be central in importance in the twenty-first century.

这就是达尔文所思考的，我认为，这在二十一世纪会越来越重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

First, the historical prologue that's so central to the suzerainty treaty, grounds the obligations of Israel to Yahweh in the history of his acts on her behalf.

第一点，历史开场白在领主契约中,是必不可少的，规定了犹太人,对上帝需要履行的义务。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Police and security staff jostled with reporters as the first bodies were removed from the J.W.Marriot Hotel in central Jakarta, located in a circle of buildings, shops and restaurants frequented by foreigners.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

The Bank of England was founded in 1694 and that was the world's first central bank.

英格兰银行成立于1694年4,并且它是世界上第一个中央银行。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The desire to be first is really central to this poem and it continues in this stanza: Have thou the honor first thy Lord to greet And join thy voice unto the Angel Choir, From out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire.

想得第一的欲望是这首诗的主题,在这一段中也还是主题：,你要抢先，争取最初迎主的荣光,放开你的歌喉，宛若天使的合唱，接触神坛的圣火像是热烈的篇章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If you'll allow me I will talk first about just what is a central bank such as the Federal Reserve and what do they do.

如果可以的话，我将首先谈谈,中央银行到底是什么,比如说联邦储备局，还有他们都做什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What they want to do is expand the actions of the Fed, so that they're not--you can describe the Federal Reserve or any central bank, traditionally, as a banker's bank the Bank of England was the first central bank and it made banks keep deposits at the Bank of England.

他们想做的是扩大政府对经济的调控范围，这样政府就能将联邦储蓄,或者其他中央银行变成银行的银行,英国银行是第一个中央银行,他使其他银行将钱存放在它这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选