Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The President was very open and encouraging of his senior staff and cabinet to disagree with the way he was going.

布什总统非常开明,经常会鼓励他身边的同事和内阁,对他选择的道路提出不同意见。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Because he was the President when that museum was first established. Ok?

当这个博物馆建起来的时候，他是总统，是吧？

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He told the president, "You do not know the dishonest purposes of those men as well as I do."

VOA: special.2009.08.13

So the three of us would have a casual and unstructured conversation with the president in what direction he wanna to go.

所以我们三个会随便地,没有系统地聊一下,总统想说什么就说什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Power is in the Chamber of Deputies,in the Assembly, and the President is a convener; he tries to get people to do the right things, and it's a political club.

权力在议会院中,在立法议会手中,总统就是个会议召集人,他想办法让人们做正确的事情,这是个政治俱乐部

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The president said he had considerable regret in accepting the resignation of "one of our nation's finest soldiers."

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Like Maslow, he too, was the President of American Psychological Association.

和马斯洛一样，也是美国心理协会会长。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He said the president had said more in two minutes than he, Everett,had said in two hours.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

He was recently appointed by President Obama to be part of the Council of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Partnerships.

最近，奥巴马总统任命他,到白宫信仰社区合作办公室,委员会任职。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But the president says he will not let health reform be paid for in his words -- "on the backs of middle-class families."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

President Obama said in late June that he is determined to enact a major reform at the end of the summer.

奥巴马总统六月份时说,他坚决,要在夏天结束前实施改革。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He told the president that he had lost a son in the fighting at Gettysburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

He was doing a fairly basic job, but then grew throughout the company, and now he's a senior vice president, and is responsible for a very large part of the company.

而是做一些比较基本的工作，但是之后逐级晋升，现在已经是高级副总裁了，负责公司很大一部分工作。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

I struck boldly." Booth described how and why he had shot the president.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

I think of Bill Clinton when he was President.

时任美国总统比尔·克林顿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said the president ate French food from gold and silver dishes.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

This kind of ritual honor all the time I mean after all we have a president who just likes to speak like a Texan, he doesn't do all that honor stuff.

这种走过场的形式到处都是,毕竟我们的总统在讲话的时候,很喜欢装成德州佬的样子,他不喜欢做面子工程

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Clay did not like this. And he told the president so.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Then the duke judged that such excessive authority was not necessary, because he feared it might become hateful and he set up a sort of a civil court in the middle of the province with the most excellent president where each city had its advocate.

然后君王判断,这样过度的威信是不需要的，因为他害怕那可能会变成仇恨,他在该省区中心,设立了一个类民事法庭,并派出最优秀的大臣,让每一座城都有自己的律师。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Good things, bad things but altogether he was a good president.

有好处也有坏处，但是总体上他是个好总统。

关于巴西 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Instead,he urged the president to let Brigham Young remain.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Well, President Obama, President Barrack Obama, he attended undergraduate school here,

好的，奥巴马总统，巴拉克•奥巴马总统，他在这里修读了本科课程，

哥伦比亚的名人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He asked the president to do something.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The board likes him; the CEO eventually retires CEO and they make this guy the CEO -the fraternity president we're talking about --CEO-- Now he's now the head guy--the CEO--and he'll bring in a number two guy that's a little dumber than he is because he doesn't want to be threatened.

董事会成员很喜欢他原来那个CEO在退休了,董事会成员就任命他为公司新一任的,-我们刚才一直说的那个学生会会长,现在他是公司的首脑了,他会提升一名比他更愚笨一些的直接下属,因为他不想自己的职位受到威胁。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He said the president's speech was perfect.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And often the president would hear 2 and 4, 5 and he'd say 5.

通常总统听到了2和，但他会说。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So that meant taking care of the schedule, of the infromation flow, making sure the president was focused on the right issues the issues he wanted to be focus on.

所以那就要做到,处理好日程，确保信息流通，确保总统先生,关注正确的东西,关注那些他需要关注的东西。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选