American housing sales,though, have improved in recent months, helped by lower prices and a tax credit for first-time buyers.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

For a first pass, let's just say for condensed systems we can go with it.

对于第一步，在凝聚体系中我们可以这样认为二者是相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

for a first performance on Friday night.

星期五晚上是第一场表演。

成功加入合唱团 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of her first jobs for the magazine was a series of stories about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

So the first step to doing that is I want to just generalize our results so far for a Carnot cycle.

第一步,首先来推广一下,卡诺循环的结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

President Obama notes that it was Theodore Roosevelt who first called for health care reform nearly a century ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

I had the pleasure, I think, of first corresponding with you in the context of writing a sermon for the chapel.

我记得我曾经有幸与您进行交流,当时我正在为教堂的布道写稿子。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Professor Pace has a warning for people who let water hit their face when they first turn on the shower.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Then news came that Dean was out of reform school and was coming to New York for the first time; also there was talk that he had just married a girl called Marylou.

然后消息传来说安被寄宿学校开除了,将第一次来纽约;,还有传言说他刚和一个叫玛丽露的姑娘结婚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

So, here we have a picture of Dmitri Mendeleev, who is one of the scientists responsible for first compiling the periodic table.

这是一张德米特里？门捷列夫的画像，他是最早制作,元素周期表的科学家之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

But first we need to establish a few things about the occasion for this piece and about the genre, the literary genre of the mask in general.

但首先我们必须建立一些,关于此作品与流派，一般文学体裁《面具》的场合。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Maybe somebody who knows Citizen Kane and would like to have a grade for the first 50 pages.

也许比较清楚了解的同学可以做,需要先读前50页的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Doctor Selanikio says he first recognized a need when he worked for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Significantly, this picture of Yeats as King Goll was used as an illustration for his first appearance in an English periodical a magazine of art and ideas called The Leisure Hour.

叶芝扮作郭尔王的这幅画,首先出现在一份英国艺术和思想,期刊休闲时刻上，作为他首次,公开亮相，这很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

So if I were to solve this problem, here's the way I would do it. I would say, first thing I want to do, is I want to input a value for the base as a float.

如果我想要解决这个问题，这就是我要解决它的方式了，第一件我要做的事情就是要,输入一个浮点数作为三角形的底。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

I want to try to sum up what we've learned from this discussion, but, first, let's thank John, Alex, and Julia for a really wonderful job.

我想总结一下从这场讨论中我们所学到的，不过首先谢谢约翰，亚历克斯，朱莉娅,谢谢他们的精彩表现。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

It was implanted into the first patient, a gentleman in Kentucky, and he stayed alive for a period of time with this device replacing his heart.

第一个植入这个人工心脏病人是,住在肯塔基州的一位先生,他在移植手术后,存活了一段时间

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

That you put together diseases of the heart, cancer, stroke, and then chronic respiratory diseases, those first top four are accounting for a huge number of deaths.

心脏病,癌症,中风,和慢性呼吸道疾病,这四大疾病加起来造成了大量死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This opera was first performed in nineteen forty-two at a center for Jewish children without parents in Prague,Czechoslovakia.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In India,he became the first American president to openly support a permanent seat for that country on the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: special.2010.11.13

I want to end this lecture summing up, drawing a lot upon Milgram and some other work, and talk first about two forces for evil and then to end by talking about two forces for good.

在本节课最后，我想总结，通过详细讲解米尔格林姆实验，还有其他实验，为大家讲解使人变坏的两股力量,最后讲使人变好的两股力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选