The sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being crushed to death by sea snakes.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

They may be beaten eventually to death by a man in their home or subject to what we consider torturous behavior or imprisonment.

或许，这些妇女最终被,家中的男人殴打致死,或者最终屈服于这种殴打折磨,甚至监禁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is the poem in which the speaker grieves over a death by imagining a procession of mourners at the funeral.

在《牧歌》第十首中，讲述者想象葬礼上,的一行送葬者，来哀悼一个死者。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As a boy,he was stuffed in a sack and nearly beaten to death by Khmer Rouge soldiers simply for letting air out of a car tire.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

When we look at the death of Socrates, do we think of it as a tragedy, as a moral tragedy, ? a just man sentenced to death by an unjust law?

当我们读到苏格拉底之死，我们是否会认为那是一场悲剧，道德悲剧，一名正义之士被不公的法律判处死刑？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Rockman often shows nature as defined by a struggle for survival with a never-ending repetition of life and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

The dialogue ends, of course, with the death scene-- Socrates has been condemned to death by the Athenians, and it ends with his drinking the hemlock, not distressed but rather sort of joyful.

对话在死亡场景中结束,此时苏格拉底已经被雅典人宣判死刑,对话在他喝毒药的时候结束,他并不哀伤,反而有点快乐

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Many of Sendak's family members in Europe were killed by the German Nazis in death camps during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

And the woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.

面对蛇的询问，女人回答说,智慧果实绝对不能吃，甚至连碰都不行。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

For example,I said,Colossians I don't think is written by Paul, but by a disciple of Paul,maybe after his death.

我觉得歌罗西书并非保罗所写，而可能是保罗死后，他的一个信徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Most of these men had stayed at a house One by one,in the days following Lincoln's death, these people were arrested.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

That's a crucial mistake that we make when we first try to come to terms with what Freud means by "the death wish."

如果我们一开始就试图理解弗洛伊德所谓的,“死亡冲动“就犯了大错误了“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for two thousand fifteen is to reduce death rates in young children by two-thirds.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Health experts say cancer will become the leading cause of death in the world by the year 2010.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The Triumph of Death, the dialogue of the mathematician Pascal is quoted by Rabb.

拉布曾引用过一段数学家帕斯卡的对话

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

An exception is when a jury is asked to recommend either execution or life in prison in murder cases punishable by death.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

So, polio--the disease caused by polio can be a paralytic disease, crippling, and in some cases can lead to death if the disease progresses in certain ways.

小儿麻痹症便是由脊髓灰质炎病毒引起的,如果脊髓灰质炎发展到一定程度,患者不仅会瘫痪或者残疾,一些病例甚至可能死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And,they can discover the time of death to see if it matches information given by suspects and witnesses.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

She was meant to remember. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding time among the beasts in a zoo, any death wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

她生来就是为了回忆的，她面临着一种可能性,当她在一个高高的阳台看着玩具街时，当她坐过山车时，当她在动物园里喂野兽时，通过一个小小的手势。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By the time of her death in nineteen seventy-six, the yard had more than three hundred statues of animals and imaginary creatures.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

You would buy life insurance on both the husband and the wife -you might do different amounts; it's done by families with young children to protect them against the economic cost of the death of one of their parents.

夫妻双方都应该购买寿险,但两份保险的金额可以有所不同,这适用于有小孩子的家庭以弥补,因父亲或母亲去世而带来的经济损失

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The attempt failed and, saddened by Eurydice's death, Orpheus spent the rest of his life avoiding the company of women.

但是最终还是失败了，欧律狄刻的死使他万分悲痛，俄耳甫斯在余生中不再要女人相陪。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One wolf had been caught by the heavy feet of the moose and kicked to death.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They expect that by two thousand ten, cancer will become the world's leading cause of death.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So that it's a good thing to be born, " even though your life is going to be followed by death."

所以出生是件好事，尽管你的生命结束之后是死亡“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So let's ask ourselves, are there any interaction effects when we talk about the human condition ? that it's life followed by death?"

所以让我们问问自己，当我们讨论,生后即是死的人类处境时,有没有相互影响“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选