Later,Alfred Wegener said the continents had once been part of a huge area of land he called Pangaea.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

I had a roommate once who would leave her food out forever

我曾经有一个室友，她总把吃的东西放在外面，

布鲁克林的房价 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Her name was Anne Sullivan. She herself had once been almost completely blind.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

You had once had a penis but somebody had taken it from you.

她们本来是拥有阴茎的,但却被某人夺去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Miss Sullivan herself had once been blind.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

You would have made your phalanx as deep as you could, and once you had the width established. Yeah?

一旦你确定了方阵的宽度,你会将你的方阵布置得尽可能深,请讲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

His wife had once been a Communist.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

He replied, once we verified there was no danger to a member's property, we had no choice but to back off according to our rules.

他回答道，根据公司规定，一旦确认会员财产无损，我们只能袖手旁观。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

And once you've had enough, you can put an end to it.

当你感到厌倦时，就可以结束它。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the beginning, Special English had one fifteen-minute news show that was broadcast to Africa and Asia once a day.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

It's just the sheer--it's amazing, it's an amazing read too. And then, Marc Bloch; I once had the pleasure when I was giving a talk at the University of Strasbourg and sitting in Marc Bloch's office.

那真的是--真的特别棒,也是本好书,还有马克·布洛克,我曾经有幸在斯特拉斯堡大学演讲时,坐在马克·布洛克的办公室里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Her MySpace page says her doctor once told her she had the larynx of a "very young adolescent."

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Notice that once we've deleted the dominated strategies, you know I had said before about four people chose this strategy, and in here, about four people chose this strategy, but in this range 30 through 45, I had lots of people.

注意,一旦我们剔除了劣势策略,我们已知有四人选择了,在45到67之间的数,但是选择30到45的有不少

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

Eager as I had once been to go into politics, as I look at these things and saw everything taking any course at all with no direction or management, I ended up feeling dizzy.

我当初涉入政治的热切，对比于我所见的这些事,及所有的事,都毫无方向及管理可言，我最后是被搞胡涂了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yet once he had enough paths built to welcome visitors, no one seemed interested in his "bat cave."

VOA: special.2009.12.07

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He says many,if not all, of the top American colleges once had a core curriculum a set of courses required for all students.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Yeats once said that he wanted the natural words in the natural order, but he had a very highly cultured sense of what is natural, and his poetry is full of verbal archaism.

叶芝曾说他想让自然的话语,用自然的方式呈现，但对于,自然的定义他又将其高度文化化，他的诗歌有很多口语的古语表达。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The University of Southern California in Los Angeles once again had the highest number of foreign students.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

So, I went out--I remember once- and bought a Galaxy convertible and it was a beautiful car. I had a beautiful girlfriend she was a model--it was just pretty nice.

所以我继续经营着我的事业-我记得曾经-,我买了一辆Galaxy敞篷车,那是一辆非常漂亮的车，我还有个漂亮的女朋友,她是名模特--一切都非常好。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

At the far end of the hall he went into the bedroom he had once shared with his twin brothers, which now, in 1955, was his alone, but he stayed in his room for not more than two minutes. When he came out, he had on the same sweaty shirt.

在走廊的尽头，他走进卧室,他曾和他哥哥一起住在这间卧室，现在，1995年的时候，他自己住了，但是他在里面待了,不到2分钟，走出来的时候，他的衬衫湿透了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Only once did he look up. He had just written the sentence: "The arms,artillery and public property will be given over to the Union army."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

And it's not a la-di-dah thing where--I'll tell you, once there was a student in there who had really fantastic French and I said, "Why is your French so good?"

其实也不是那么严格要求的,我给你们讲,以前有个学生法语特好,我就问他你法语怎么这么好啊

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So once we had the children, Valentine's Day,I think, became more about them.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

And, so, people would come down and they'd have their pictures taken with a picture, as if it was part of the true cross of the crashed Vendome column; because for once they had won, for once they had won.

所以,人们会来这里,和那张画合影留念,仿佛这是,旺道姆广场的纪念柱的墓碑,因为他们曾经胜利过,他们曾经胜利过

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Once the real flight began, the pilot had to remember everything he learned.

VOA: special.2010.07.07