A listener hears the mournful feeling cowboys had for the prairie in this song called, "The Dying Cowboy."

VOA: special.2010.03.25

I think it takes your breath away to think of the unspeakably high hopes that John Milton had for his career.

我觉得像弥尔顿这样说出自己对职业如此高的希望,是很让人吃惊的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We have got an extensive subway system and an extensive bus system that we have had for 60, 70 years.

我们有大规模的地铁系统和巴士系统，它们已经有差不多六七十年的历史了。

纽约的公共交通 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, the flag had forty-eight stars for forty-seven years, from nineteen twelve until nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Long before Milton had begun to tackle the problem, Christians had for centuries, for millennia, puzzled over the logical inconsistency between these two concepts.

早在弥尔顿应对这个问题之前，基督教徒们就已经花了成百上千年，为这两个概念之间逻辑上的前后矛盾感到困惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I thought that the American medical system was going to take away my life savings and essentially ruin any prospects I had for a pleasant retirement after the operation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

So you print out--you enter everything you've had for the day.

你输入这一天内摄入的所有食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Addressing media in the White House Rose Garden, the president said Republicans who had for years supported policies that turned big surpluses into deficits had no place blocking aid for Americans desperately searching for work.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

I asked each of them to bring a book that had informed that question for them, inside or outside of the classroom that they had read or what in Princeton.

我让他们每人带一本书来,这本书该为他们提供了对这个问题的提示,只要是他们在学校里课堂内外读过的都行。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He was a good dog, and would have made a name for himself if he had lived, for he had intelligence.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

other people had solved that problem for me, and this thing between quotes, we'll start calling a string.

至于如何实现的别人已经解决了，这个在引号之间的东西叫字符串。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Israel's descent to Egypt sets the stage for the rise of a pharaoh who, the text says, didn't know Joseph and all that he had done for Egypt.

以色列人下埃及也为一个法老的得势打下基础，文中说法老不认识约瑟夫，也不知他为埃及做的一切。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Van Buren had been president for just a few days when an economic crisis and a political storm struck the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

A lot of people would ask them, since they had a safekeeping for gold, could you put my gold in your safe?

因为他们可以妥善保管金子,所以很多人上前询问,你能不能帮我保存我的金子呢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Adolph Bandelier was researching the history and social organization of the American Indians who had lived there for centuries.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And in social security, I thought, we had the right plan for dealing with the long-term crisis that the program is in.

我认为在社会保障项目方面,我们拥有正确的计划应对,这一项目面临的长期危机。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Kristen Iversen says he did become rich, but not until they had been married for seven years and had two children.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

006 when I pointed that sad heap and talk about I've had that car for 16 years.

006年当我指着这些刮痕,我说的是用了16年的车。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He found that conditions had become worse for many people who had lost their land and fled the Dust Bowl.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Over a third had official records and 20 more percent had unofficial records for misdemeanors.

超过三分之一有案底,超过20%犯轻罪，无案底。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Frank Borman noted happily that after twelve lonely days in space, he and James Lovell finally had company for one night!

VOA: special.2009.07.01

We haven't had a woman for a while, so let's have a woman. Thank you.

我们很久没找女性发言了,这次找个女士来回答吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Officials there seemed to think that education was only for children whose parents had enough money to pay for private schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

It's also worth pointing out that these rulers had full religious authority for their rule.

值得指出的还有,这些统治者还拥有着完全的宗教权威

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

What Columbus had done for geography, Machiavelli claims he will do for politics.

马奇亚维利声称哥伦布的地理大发现，就像他的，“政治“大发现。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

I'm wondering if Dudley and Steven had asked for Richard Parker's consent in you know, dying, if that would exonerate them from an act of murder and if so, is that still morally justifiable?

我想知道达德利和斯蒂芬斯,是否征得过派克的同意，取他的性命，是否那样就能赦免他们的谋杀罪名,是否这样，道德上就是正当的？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I'm sorry. I had to go for that.

对不起,我得再解释一下

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选