But his message had to compete for attention with news that the giant insurance company American International Group,or AIG, paid out $165 million in bonuses to employees after the government agreed to bail out the financially troubled company.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

I study speech, I study speeches, and if I do so, and if I keep thinking about it in a variety of ways, all sorts of frameworks jostle for attention.

我就必定要研究话语，如果我想要从尽可能多的角度研究它，那么各式各样的的语言结构令我眼花缭乱。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The focus of pleasure shifts to the genitals and fixation can lead to excessive masculinity in females or in males, or, if you're female, need for attention or domination.

性器官成为了快乐的主要来源,固着在此阶段，会导致女性或男性,过分男性化，或是导致女性产生对于关注或控制的欲求。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

His music first gained attention when his song "Strange Condition" was used in the soundtrack for the movie "Me,Myself and Irene."

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Here I come to the topic which will occupy most of my attention for the remainder of the lecture.

这节课剩下的时间,我将主要讲一下这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The family hopes the music will attract attention to the need for taking good care of the earth and its seas.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

This is something that psychologists have been talking about for over a hundred years Human attention is part of human intelligence.

这就是心理学家,谈了百年的原理,注意力是人类智慧的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They saw it as a chance to get more help for the lake's problems, and more national attention for the area.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

And if I'm already in this habit, let my software, let my computer do that thinking for me and bubble up to the top of my attention what I should address first.

如果我已经有这样的习惯，让我的软件，或者电脑为我考虑这些事情，自动的把这,些邮件放到的最醒目的地方---最上面。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The Global Initiative for Asthma,or GINA, was formed in nineteen ninety-three to raise attention about the growing problem.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

For the coming week, I would like you to please pay particular attention: we're dealing with two topics that will be, I think perhaps for some of you, a little different, new, alien.

下星期，我希望大家特别注意：,我们将要探讨的两个主题，我想，你们当中的有些人也许会觉得新奇，不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Farrah Fawcett often received more attention for her troubled private life than for her work as an actress.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And as an added incentive for you to pay attention, I'm going to warn you that this particular simulation will appear in the final or a variant of it.

作为提高你们注意力的激励，我要警告你们,这个特殊的仿真程,或者它的变种会再期末考试出现。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And an international movement known as hospice has helped bring attention to difficult-to-treat pain for the dying.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Thank you very much for your attention.

非常感谢大家。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The biathlon requires great skill to combine the physical demands of skiing and the calm, focused attention needed for shooting at a target.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Well, Willett and others were doing studies for a number of years finding that Trans fats were having a very negative impact on health, but nobody paid much attention and they couldn't get much attention out there in the world for this kind of work.

威莱特等人多年的研究发现,反式脂肪对健康有着非常负面的影响,但没有人对此多加注意,研究者们也无法让大众注意到他们的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She says many students are sleepy and unable to pay attention in class because there is not enough food for them at home.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In nineteen ninety-five at the age of fifty, she received a great deal of attention for being photographed without clothes in a magazine.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The object of attention for an analysis of this kind is the poem.

这是因为我们现在分析的对象只是单独成立的诗的概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Frank Oteri says the Internet and new technologies have increased the competition for people's attention and money.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

It's a difficult problem that not everyone is smart -they vary in their ability -so we try to make a world in which it's pretty safe for the small investor who's not paying attention.

不是所有人都是聪明人,这是个难题,大家能力不同,所以我们试图营造一个环境,一个让小投资者感到安全的环境,而无需忧心忡忡

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The planning for a national protest on the environment soon began to receive national media attention.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Most people in America would get enough protein if they're eating a healthy, balanced diet, and wouldn't have to pay so much attention to protein in particular, but not everybody is getting a healthy balanced diet, so it is important for people to pay attention to this.

大部分美国人只要饮食健康平衡,蛋白质的摄取量都是足够的,不需要对蛋白质特别关注,但并不是每个人的饮食都那么健康而平衡,所以关注蛋白质的摄入量还是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Cleopatra" received a great deal of attention for bringing together Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

VOA: special.2011.04.03

She becomes close friends with a young man who competes for her love and attention.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Yet the new report says in Africa, for example, it has generally received limited attention.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

Sometimes the trio would reunite, often for performances that brought attention to political issues.

VOA: special.2009.12.27