"The Fantasticks" is about young love, children leaving home and what it is like to be a father.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

Deny thy father and refuse they name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." She's a Capulet.

否认你的父亲，抛弃你的姓名吧，也许你不愿意这样做，只要你宣誓做我的爱人，我也不愿再姓凯普莱特了，她姓凯普莱特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Well, the odd thing is it's exactly the same with Saussure, who can be considered the father or patriarch of a certain kind of literary theory as I have just indicated.

索绪尔也是这样，他可以说是,某种文学理论之父了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The father of the family has to be respected as a figure of great strength.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

You are born to be one of these people because your father was such a person belonging to the right families and so on.

你生来就是这些人中的一员,因为你父亲就是某个有权有势的家族的人,诸如此类

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I'm ashamed to be your father. I'd have horsewhipped you if I had a horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So for those of you who haven't read, Richard's father works nights and sleeps during the day, and during the day the children therefore have to be very quiet.

可能有人不清楚，理查的父亲日出而息，日落而作，因而小孩白天不敢出声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

My quiet father whose voice could hardly be heard in church sang to the oysters!

VOA: special.2009.02.14

But there's a theoretical framework, and it will catch up with the French monarchs, among others, later-- that the ruler must be a father, a benevolent figure.

不过,有一种理论框架,使法国的君主终自食恶果,这种理论认为统治者必是父亲一样善良的人

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The Judge asked John. "I hope you won't be like your father.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

What captures this idea best-- the words of Francis Bacon, considered the father of the scientific movement, was a philosopher in 1600s: " "Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."

最准确阐述这种观点的-,是培根的话，他是17世纪时科学运动之父，是一名哲学家：,“号令自然，必须遵守自然“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I wanted to be sure you were not like your father.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Our father with Bart in heaven; Harold be they name?

我们在天上的父和巴特,哈罗德是他们的名字吗

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Freud would come to be called the father of psychoanalysis.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But the question is, in my present circumstances, with evil on my hands, entailed from my father, would the general interest of the slaves and community at large, with reference to the slaves, be promoted best by emancipation?

但问题是,在我目前的情况下,我已犯下如此罪行,我延续了父辈的罪恶,对于奴隶的问题,解放是否能够使,他们和全社会的整体利益得到提升呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But his father wanted him to be a doctor.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

You remember he's written his father in "Ad Patrem" that the trade, the vocation of poetry -- it may be homely and slighted in his father's eyes, but it was of course worth all of Milton's time, all of Milton's uncessant care and investment.

他在写给父亲的Ad，Patrem中说，写诗这个职业在父亲看来或许,简单无趣，却值得弥尔顿付出所有的时间，精力，和投资。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Anything further,father?" "Anything further,father? That can't be right.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So, you would expect a child who just grew up with a mother or just grew up to be a father--with a father to be in some sense psychologically damaged by that, failing to go through the normal psychosexual stages.

你会看到由单身母亲抚养长大的孩子,或由单身父亲抚养长大的孩子,在某种意义上,会因此而形成心理创伤，从而无法正常地经历所有的性心理阶段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Her father wanted her to be a teacher.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

We would be told that he was very honest and told his father he chopped down a cherry tree, which would be baloney, but we would be told that too. But I think we would be told also very many true things, which came down to us.

我们还被告知他很诚实,因为他告诉父亲,他砍倒了一棵樱桃树,这简直是胡扯,但我们还是会听到这些,除此之外,我们还会听到一些真实的历史事件

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"A sign of progress that I relish, not just as a father who wants limitless possibilities for my daughters, but as an American proud that our Supreme Court will be a little more inclusive, a little more representative, more reflective of us as a people than ever before."

VOA: special.2010.08.20

While his approval rating in the United States may be slipping, President Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya, remains popular in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Black,who is a father himself, adds that the Council of Dads has turned out to be about more than just a community of support for Feiler's daughters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

He is Ryan's father. "I was with my son the day he was born and I,unfortunately, had to be with my son in the hospital on the day he died.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Reagan hopes that someday it will be possible to change the status of Alzheimer's from the lethal condition that destroyed his father's mind, to a chronic disease that victims and their families can manage with dignity and even hope.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04