They were not ready for self-government. So,there was nothing for us to do but to take them all.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

What is scathing about it is that Frost gives up all justification for self-interest.

讽刺的是,弗罗斯特因为个人兴趣放弃了所有的正当理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The most excellent princes of the past were those like Moses, he tells us, who brought tables of law and prepared people for self-government.

历史上最杰出的君王是摩西那样的,他告诉我们，摩西带来了刻有法律的石板,而后让人们据此来自治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He decided to keep the islands and prepare the people for self-government in the future.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The person who best captures the unconstrained view, Benjamin Constant, French philosopher and politician, " "It is for self-perfectioning that destiny calls us."

最好地阐述了本性受约束观点的人，法国哲学家政治家Benjamin，Constant说，“命运召唤我们进行自我完善“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This represents the short time Texas was an independent nation battling Mexico for self-rule.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Pahlevani is a form of physical training for self-defense.

VOA: special.2010.12.01

You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said guns in the home - even for self-defense - kill innocent people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The women represent for Yeats a kind of self-destructive energy, and it's something he too, I think, is willing to share and enter into.

这些女人对叶芝而言代表了,一种自我毁灭的能量,这是他愿意分享参与的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"He devised a large number of programs for the benefit of farmers, for the benefit of downtrodden people, for health care, for self-help groups of women,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?

如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑，会引起怎样的后果呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

It's not self-serving; it's not so much for my benefit.

不是我自私,这对我来说没什么好处

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They say the Earps and Doc Holliday did not fire in self-defense, but used the law as an excuse for murder.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

What he means, for instance, in this case is well, talking to yourself is self-reinforcing or giving bad news to an enemy is reinforcing because it makes your enemy feel bad.

比如在这个例子中，他的意思其实是，自言自语是种自我强化行为,而向敌人散布坏消息也是一种强化,因为这样做可以使敌人感到不快。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He loved to learn.He was a self-taught lawyer who served for eight years as an Illinois state representative.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Moreover, this self is the agent responsible for the thoughts and actions of an individual to which they are ascribed.

另外，这个self还是对一个个体的,行为和思想负责的代理,这是个实物因此要经受时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Liberal Democrats support the proposal for a self-supporting government insurance plan to compete with private ones.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

We'll see why they have to separate that in a minute, but they do that these lipid bi-layers solve that problem for them and they're self-assembled structures from these molecules called phospholipids.

我们马上会讲到为什么要把它们隔离开,脂质双层膜解决了这个问题,而这些自主装结构,就是由磷脂分子组成的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

She believed that the individual has a right to exist for his or her own self.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Okay, first of all, because everything relies on self-report there's no machine, for the most part, that can do objective measures of this, you don't really know when people are telling you what they're eating.

好,首先,因为任何事都是建立在自觉上,大多数环节没有机器参与,这样的方式比较主观,你并不需要,人们告诉你他们所吃的是否真实

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But in two thousand four the Center for Rural Development had the idea for a bank to help self-employed workers buy their own rickshaws.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

So let's take a look then at somewhere where this is actually a useful thing to know so this is compare1.c. So, in compare1.c I've stripped out the comments in my version but in your version you do have comments for reference and it's actually pretty self-explanatory if you just read through the code.

那么再然我们看一看,一些有用的东西,这是compare1。c，所以在compare1。c中，在我的版本中,我吧注释去掉了,但是在你们的版本中是有注释的,这是相当容易理解的,如果你通读这段代码。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For seven years, no one had taught her self-control.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But for a moment, his self-control weakened.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

It is clearly connected this notion of spiritedness or this thumotic quality to our capacities for heroism and for self-sacrifice.

这样定义的意志,或说，Thumos，特质,明显地与我们追求英雄主义及献身有关连。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's this drive to constant self-definition that becomes the characteristic feature of Milton's work for later generations.

就是这种对自我界定的欲望,变成了弥尔顿留给后人的,作品的典型特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选