Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - speaking at a news conference in Monterrey,Mexico - said the civilian component is essential.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

It can be honed but those are some of the skills for a consumer internet company and one that is growing this quickly that is just essential.

是可以通过磨练而得的,但是对于增长如此迅速的,客户导向型互联网公司来说,有一些技能是不可习得的。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

For the Greeks,on the other hand as I've said, political society was essential for living any kind of a good life.

对于希腊人,就像我说的另外一方面,对他们而言,政治社会,是人们获得幸福生活的关键

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called a strong public option "essential" for any bill to pass in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

But it's absolutely essential--so the shares only mean something as a relation to their total number of shares.

这是十分必要的,所有股票只有在,和总体股本数量联系起来看时才有意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And since natural gas is a major ingredient in fertilizer, the cost of this essential farm supply could go up,too.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Okay. This is a first walk through some essential ideas.

好，这样我们就奖励一遍基本概念了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Political commentators say peaceful, free and fair elections in 2011 are essential in stabilizing a country in danger of sliding into anarchy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

And it seems that if we accept the body view, we have to say being a person is not an essential property of being something like me.

似乎如果我们接受了肉体理论，就必须说作为一个人,并不是作为我的基本性质。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But shop owners say now they only see "essential customers" those who have to buy for the marriage of a son or a daughter.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

I think the essential element, in my mind, that makes it a crime is the idea that they decided at some point that their lives were more important than his, and that, I mean, that's kind of the basis for really any crime.

就我的认知，我觉得最重要的一点，之所以说他们构成犯罪,是他们认为，某种程度上，自己命比派克更重要，而这正是一切犯罪的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Because quite often the arguments that a defense deal is essential on national security grounds then that becomes justification for shielding it from public scrutiny."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Everyone agrees that the epic similes in Paradise Lost are different from the epic similes in any other epic poem, and everyone agrees - I'm just going to be presenting to you a sense of critical consensus here - everyone agrees that the similes are in some way absolutely essential to an understanding of this remarkable poem.

大家都同意中的诗意明喻,是和其他诗中的有所不同的，这是共识,-我将要向大家说明这一点,关于这点大家有决定性的共识,-大家都同意这些明喻某种程度上对于,理解这种异常卓越的诗是必然很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I think we've been very clear in our efforts that the resumption of talks is absolutely essential for the progress we seek toward a two-state solution."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

From Barak Obama.com, a moral imperative by any measure, by any measure, mark that, Dr. Sowell, a better health care system is also essential to rebuilding our economy.

援引，Barak，Obama。com网站的话，道德上,不管怎样，不管怎样，索尔博士，听听他说的，一个更好的医疗体系,对于重建经济很重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"And we all understand that there are fixed household budgets and also given the fact that generally prices of essential food commodities have taken a major increase."

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

In fact, that is essential to banking and it's kind of part of the -you might almost call it the definition of a bank.

事实上,这对银行业务是至关重要的,并且这是部分的...,几乎可以说这就是银行的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And making sure that folks have the opportunity and incentive to save for a home or college, for retirement or a rainy day is essential to that effort,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And next year, the country is launching a small space lab to practice docking in orbit - an essential part of manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

But there's a part of us, perhaps the essential part of us, that is something more than the physical, the spiritual, immaterial part of us, which as I say in this class we'll call a soul.

我们身体中有一部分，可能是重要的，比身体重要的，精神上的，非物质的部分，就像我在这里说的灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

It's not one of my essential properties that I'm a person.

作为一个人不是我的基本性质之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"It is a very essential conversation, that Israel needs to conduct, among ourselves, of what is justified, what is necessary, what is legal and moral, and what even is effective in order to keep our citizens safe."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09