When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Now it's--I think it's still the dominant academic view, but there's a big debate and there are partisans on both sides.

现在，这种观点-我认为仍然是主流的学术观点，但是对此学术界也存在激烈的争论,并且双方都有自己的阵营。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We will debate equality and inequality, affirmative action, free speech versus hate speech, same-sex marriage, military conscription, a range of practical questions.

我们将讨论平等与不平等，平权行动，自由言论与攻击性言论，同性婚姻，兵役制等一系列现实问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The Verizon-Google proposal offers suggestions for a debate that is not likely to end soon.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

And it probably--One--There's--Evolutionary psychologists debate the function of why we talk funny to babies.

进化心理学家们在争论,我们为何要以如此好玩的方式来同婴儿讲话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But fast-growing demand and prices have made them part of the debate over health reform.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The plunge renewed debate about the risks of electronic exchanges and high-speed computer trading systems.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

There is a debate among rich countries and developing countries about trade-related intellectual property rights.

发达国家和发展中国家,在贸易知识产权上存在着纠纷。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The researchers say the discovery could be important to a debate about Cesarean-section deliveries.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

There is, of course, a lot of debate about universities like Yale to the extent in which they promote interdependence-- sorry, they promote positive contact between groups.

当然还有很多人讨论像耶鲁这样的大学,在促进人们的互相依赖中所起的作用-,对不起，是促进群体间的正面接触。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The health care debate also fueled the rise of the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

By the late 1970s, when I was there, pressure grew to relax these rules and it became the subject of debate among the faculty at St. Anne's College, which was one of these all-women's colleges.

七十年代后期，我在那里读书时，放宽规定的呼声日益高涨,并引起了其中一所女校,圣安妮大学的教职员，激烈的争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He feared it would re-open the bitter, national debate about slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Experts debate the reason for these so-called jobless recoveries.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They demanded a debate on the gold-silver issue.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

I didn't get into it at all in this experiment--in this lecture-- but there's an interesting debate going on about love and many other emotions between people who take a kind of evolutionary perspective on these states versus people who take what might be called a more socially constructed perspective.

我没有在这讲座中的实验中涉及-,但是这是关于爱,和其他情感有趣的争论,有人从进化论的角度来探讨,还有人可能从,更像社会建构的立场出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

One young jurist, who gave only her first name Nadia - said she was glad she had attended Wednesday's debate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

But Gorce believes the debate should far longer and more in-depth than what the government has in mind.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

What some call the V-word - Vietnam is increasingly heard in the growing debate over U.S.involvement in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"The high-pitched partisan debate over whether to invest in missile defense is no longer with us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"We need to have a debate about how we feel about whole body imaging and the privacy trade-off, and it is a legitimate issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The director of Afghanistan Rights Monitor,Ajmal Samadi, tells VOA that the debate half-a-world away is alienating the people of Afghanistan, causing them to question Washington's commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Conference organizers say at least six items have been proposed for emergency debate during the six-day meeting, including three concerning the plight of the people in Gaza.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

The debate itself was initially triggered by Srinagar's senior police superintendent, Afhad-ul-Mujtaba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Seven-and-a-half million people watched the TV debate, which focused on Britain's economy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

What is clear, says Claire de Gallembert, an expert on Islam at the Paris-based National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is that the debate is alienating France's five-million-member Muslim community.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30