Listen for a few moments as Warren Scheer reads the beginning of Chaucer's famous "Canterbury Tales."

VOA: special.2011.01.05

You notice at the beginning one-two, At the beginning these chords are holding for four measures or a total of eight beats.

注意在开头，在开始的部分，和弦持续了4小节也就是8拍。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One note for each gesture and we've just done a rhythmic dictation of the beginning of Musorgsky's "Great Gate of Kiev" From Pictures at an Exhibition.

每个动作一个音符,我们刚刚做完了,穆索尔斯基《图画展览会》的《基辅的城门》,开头部分的节奏听写

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It was a new beginning for them.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.

因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But food is just the beginning. Marty Ross works for the United Soybean Board which is a U.S.trade group.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

When you came into this class in the beginning of the semester you may have thought you were just signing up for a class in political science.

当你们在学期一开始时,选修了这门课,可能会以为,这只是另一门政治科学课程,你可能未了解到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

but for most this was a unique opportunity to celebrate the beginning of holy week alongside the Church hierarchy, including the Pope.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

I don't know who's coming next class, or what but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of the class, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next to them so they have some sort of resource in the class.

我不知道下节课会有谁来,有什么情况,不过我会在课程开始的时候,先安排几分钟,让你们向前后左右的同学,进行一番自我介绍,这样你们就能在这个班里,认识一些新同学了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Somali pirates are blamed for seizing more than 20 vessels since the beginning of last month and are holding more than Piracy is a lucrative, albeit dangerous,business.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The holidays mark the beginning of a new year for Jews.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

"It is two separate issues; we clarified our position from the beginning, that this moratorium is only for 10 months and direct talks is a very important issue for both sides,not only for Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28