"I think there are many who realize that constantly imposing demands on the Iranians which they either have no intention or the capacity to fulfill for domestic political reasons has not gotten us very far over the last three or four years,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Now this passage is famous for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it's wonderful.

这篇文章在今日如此出名有很多原因，不仅是因为它本身很精彩。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so it’s not quite as useful as Facebook which is great for social reasons.

对于拓展社交圈的话，它不会比Facebook更实用。

便利的社交媒体 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The reason for that is two reasons: first, I want to run it as a workshop, in which you involve and participation.

这样是因为：,首先，我想把课上成一节讨论课，让大家积极参与。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Other things like sexual orientation are used as a category by which some people, for religious reasons, need to have a certain level or kinds of rights or be excluded from others and also of course, certain obligations and duties first.

其他的像性取向也会作为一类区别,这些情况下，有些人出于宗教原因，需要有某些层次或者种类的权利,或者要和别人区别开来，当然，首先是要履行一定的责任义务。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

With the United States quite isolated, not reaching out to Canada and Mexico, which is one thing we need to be doing for energy and economic reasons.

而美国则被孤立了，不和加拿大，墨西哥打交道，事实上这是我们现在该做的,为了能源问题和经济发展。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.

所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the thing I wanted point out is, we've got this global variable number of calls. Which is there not because Fibonacci needs it but just for pedagogical reasons, so that we can keep track of how much work this thing is doing.

要指出的是我们已经,调用了几次这个全局变量,这不是因为斐波那契数列,需要调用它而只是,因为教学上的需要，以便我们可以知道,这个函数做了多少事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What this often--What this can be viewed as, as an extended version of selfish gene theory, which is that to the extent you're interconnected with other people you care about them more for purely selfish reasons.

其实我们可以把这个观点视为，自私基因理论的延伸，也就是说根据你和别人,互相联系的程度,你对他人的关心更多是因为自私的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选