In nineteen eighty-three, he began to study more than twenty-two thousand healthy male doctors over forty years of age.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

It was--Modigliani and Miller said back then-- this was thirty or forty years ago-- that companies should really not pay dividends because dividends were then taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒说在那时候,大概30或40年前,公司不应分配股利,因为对股利征税的税率比对资本收益高

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He was forty years old. Over the years,historians and medical experts have tried to explain the cause of Poe's death.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.

现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Much of the information came from observations made by thousands of volunteers in more than four thousand places over forty years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

That has been a frequent source of the criticism of the New Criticism in its afterlife over the last forty or fifty years.

这也是新批评派,在过去四五十年的,理论根据之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The researchers noted a big change in the list of countries with the lowest adult mortality over the past forty years.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Suppose there's somebody alive forty odd years form now in the year 2050.

假定有个人生活在,四十多年后，也就是2050年。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

NASA said its astronaut candidates had to be between twenty-five and forty years old and in excellent health.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Back in the 1840s, life insurance was very important because the average expectancy of life was only something like forty-five years, so that meant parents were dying left and right.

在19世纪40年代的时候,寿险是非常重要的,因为当时的人均期望寿命,仅为45岁左右,这意味着双亲平均只能活到45岁

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Miller once said that even after he and Inge had been married almost forty years, people still asked him about Marilyn Monroe.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

All of this the New Criticism had a great deal to do with-- and when I talk next time about the way in which it's been vilified for the last forty or fifty years, naturally I will have this in the back of my mind.

这些都跟新批评派有关-,等我下次再说到这个,在四五十年前饱受诋毁的文学鉴赏方式的时候，我还会想起今天所说的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The prize in economic sciences has gone to sixty-three men since it was first awarded forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

There is another aspect of the way in which the New Criticism has been criticized for the last forty or fifty years which needs to be touched on.

新批评主义还在一个方面,受到看批评,在我们研究的过去的四五十年里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

But forty years later, "Sesame Street" is the longest running children's television program in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Jennifer Egan's book "A Visit from the Goon Squad" takes place in thirteen chapters over forty years.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Its power was crushed. It would be more than forty years before America's steelworkers were organized again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

"We've only had this technology around for about fifteen years, and most carcinogens will take about several decades, thirty-forty years to develop a cancer.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

The next Royal Astronomer, Edmund Halley, spent another forty years gathering information about the moon's orbit.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Still,she says, far more boys than girls join sports teams nearly forty years after Title Nine gave girls a chance to level the playing field.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Forty years earlier, a group of leading Americans had formed an organization for that purpose.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

A new study examines and compares adult death rates worldwide over the last forty years.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

It was the beginning of a career with the company that lasted about forty years.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Today,Diane Arbus' images remain as fresh and intense as they were forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.08.09