He had been a teacher, a college president, and a general in the Union army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And how far in advance he had even been thinking about some of the stuff that he had done

他很早前就开始构思他的作品了，

和男朋友在一起 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

Because the servant had not been willing to spend the only talent that he had been given, the master instructs him to give his one and only talent to the man who now has ten.

因为这个仆人不愿意适用他获得的唯一,的金币，主人命令他把这个,唯一的金币给了那个已经有十个金币的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He had been married, had kids, had coached their soccer league had done all kind of things.

他们结婚多年，并且生养了孩子，并且辅导足球联队踢球等等。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

The citizens of Ada knew he had been arrested several times but had always been released for lack of evidence.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Alexander, of course, had been educated by Aristotle, when he was young, and so he had adopted Greek language and Greek literature and a lot of other Greek ways.

亚历山大本人幼年时，师承亚里士多德，所以他使用希腊语，熟悉希腊文学,以及各类希腊文化。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first noise, when he had turned in the bed.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And he had a stage theory, which was quite different from the Freudian stage theory that we have been introduced to.

他提出了一个阶段理论,这个阶段理论与我们之前所介绍的,弗洛伊德的阶段理论有着很大的不同

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Benjamin was a lawyer. He had been a General in the Union Army during America's Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

What he does is he takes this archaic state structure in which literally nothing had been written down.

他激进而彻底的变革改变了俄国陈旧的国家结构,这种陈旧的国家结构没有任何文献资料

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And.He created the kind of world he would have wanted to live in if he had been a man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

He has been chosen twice by the people in Afghnastan even though this last election obviously had a greatly flawed involved in it.

他曾两次被阿富汗人民选中,虽然第二次的选举有漏洞。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

When he looked at her, he saw that she had been successful, as he knew she would succeed.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Even Humbert will tell us so. Just a few pages later, on page 175, he talks about his journey: We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.

即使是纳博科夫也会这么告诉你们，只是几页之后，在175页，他谈到了这次旅行：,我们到处每一个地方，实际却一无所览。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He had been searching for a way to make the environment a subject of national interest to the country's politicians and leaders.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He knew the same thing that had been observed by that point.

所以他所做的就是,把一个量子力学的模型。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In trying to improve his lovely wife, he had failed to realize she had been perfect all along.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He had that stamp of having been one of the guys.

他有那些人的印记

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Before he became a power hitter, he had been among the best pitchers of his time.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

I imagine he did it at this very blackboard because, as I said, he had his office in this building and he didn't die until 1940s, so he must have been-- this building was--this room goes back to the '30s.

我猜他就是在这块黑板上解释这个理论的,当时他的办公室就在这栋楼里,他是在40年代离世的,所以他应该曾经...,而这间教室是在30年代建成的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He had been named chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge project soon after his father died.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Well, he has a wife whom he loves, Penelope, and he has a son whom he has barely seen because he had to go off to Troy almost 20 years ago to fight that battle and he hasn't been home since.

因为他有挚爱的妻子珀涅罗珀,以及一个由于二十年前,他前赴参加特洛伊战争,而几乎素未谋面的儿子

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was the first time he had been there in more than fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Okay. So what happened next was he then started to run that faster, twice as fast as it had been before, changing rate of harmonic pattern. Okay?

好的，比以前的快两倍，比以前的快两倍，改变了泛音的方式，改变了泛音的方式，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Since he was an unusually small lad, he had been mainlining Greek and Roman poetry.

由于还是非常年轻的孩子，他依旧沉湎于希腊和罗马的诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选