We leave you with Animal Collective performing "On A Highway" from their latest album, "Fall Be Kind."

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Israel's past and present and future generations form a collective entity, Israel, that collectively assents to the covenant.

犹太人的过去，现在，未来形成了一个共同的存在，全体犹太人都赞成这个契约。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

According to Eliot, the modern world lacks a center, a kind of set of collective beliefs and commitments that would enable communication between us.

根据艾略特所说，现代世界缺少一个中心，缺少一套共有的信仰和承诺,来促成人与人之间的交流。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

(Music) Animal Collective is a music group made up of four friends who met in Baltimore,Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I'm Doug Johnson. Today,we play music from a new album by Animal Collective .

VOA: special.2009.12.11

In other words, liberty for the ancients was a collective good, the liberty, as he says, to resist or invade other people.

也就是说，古人的自由是集体的自由,是他们这个集体拥有抵抗和入侵他人的自由，而非每个个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As a result,he got the idea for "Animal Collective."

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Further he says, "These individual actions lead to collective costs," said Blair, "It's worth pausing for a moment to consider the consequences that inaction will bring."

他还说,"个人行为将导致集体成本的产生","我们需要停下来思考,不作为所带来的后果"

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Animal Collective has a sound all its own.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Is it in the collective memory that people remember three centuries later that the Catholic Church was identified, at least as a hierarchy, with the Vichy Regime in World war II?

到二战时 宗教战争已经过去了三百年,在村民的大众记忆中是否因为等级制度,仍将天主教和二战中的维希政府视为一丘之貉

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"What is necessary in this case is a collective effort, not only by the researchers and the people on the ground, but also the donor community, because controlling those two diseases can go a long way in improving people's food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa."

VOA: special.2009.09.21

I believe religious pluralism has three dimensions: No. 1, respect for people's religious identities ; including people with no religious identities; No. 2, positive relationships between different people ; of different religious communities; and No. 3, a collective commitment to the common good.

我认为宗教多元主义分为三个层面：,第一是对人们不同的宗教身份的尊重,包括对无宗教信仰的人的尊重;,第二是来自不同宗教社区的,不同人间的良好关系;,第三是共同致力于公共利益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She said they have agreed, if the launch goes forward, to discuss a collective response, perhaps in the Security Council.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

If the Israelites were, in fact, basically Canaanites, who had withdrawn from the larger collective, who insisted on the overlordship of Yahweh, then Canaanites who did not join them in this were a special threat to the new Yahwism.

如果以色列人实际上是迦南人，他们从大团体中撤离，他们坚持耶和华的霸主般的唯一地位，那么没有加入他们的迦南人,对于新的耶和华崇拜便是一种威胁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Fambul Tok director,John Caulker, believes that Sierra Leone needs a reconciliation model that relies on community dialogue and collective reckoning.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

How is a city like a soul and in what respect is self-governance, the control of one's passions and appetites, in what respect is self-control ? like the governance of a collective body?

城市如何像灵魂,且在哪些层面自管、,自控一个人的激情、欲望，在哪些层面,这些会像是管理一个集体？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And six victims were being buried, two days after a collective funeral was held for more than 200 people.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

And so here in Exodus, we find that just as the nation of Israel is coming into existence, just as the Israelites are making the transition from a nomadic existence to a more settled way of life ultimately in their own land, there seems to be a collective memory of a similar change in her religion.

所以在《出埃及记》中，我们可以看到,以色列作为一个国家即将诞生，就像犹太人,从游牧的生活方式,向更安定生活的转变,就像在宗教中同一个改变中的共同记忆。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is the logic of a mad house, a recipe for collective suicide."

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"I think in Japan there was a collective identity as a society where everyone is middle class, everybody shares the same fate, there are not huge, wide disparities of income.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Kendra Kielbasa says the Be a Santa for a Senior program succeeds because it brings the community together in a collective gesture of love and caring, and that,she says,is what the Christmas holiday is all about.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24