Yet his greatest influence may have come from popularizing a song that he himself did not write.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Plato is not only one of the greatest philosophers in history, he wrote his philosophy in the form of dialogues.

柏拉图是历史上最伟大的哲学家之一,并且,他使用对话体形式来阐述其观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But his greatest help was in building a strong political party for Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.

他是英文写作的大师，他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He believed some of his greatest music had gone into the opera.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

He's under the greatest pressure of his life to do something with his talent.

他承受着一生中最大的压力,需要用自己的才能做些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

John Malkovich plays his greatest enemy, Quentin Turnbull.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

But the point is that this form of immortality is available to Tellus because of his place in the polis, because of the deeds he does for the polis, and that is the greatest possible payoff.

但是关键是,特勒斯之所以能成为永恒,是因为他在城邦中的地位,是因为他在城邦之中的功绩,这也许就是得以永存的最佳途径

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But his greatest love in music was teaching.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Well, one of the greatest philosophers I ever read was Aristotle and I think his Nicomachean Ethics, if you read it, makes a great deal of sense -where you live with this golden mean but at the end use your intellect.

我所了解的哲学家之一是,亚里士多德，我觉得他写的《尼各马克伦理学》,非常有意义，如果你读一读的话你就会发现这一点,-在读这本书时你与他的中庸之道同在,但最终你还需动用你的智慧。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His heartfelt,powerful, soulful singing helped establish him as one of the greatest rhythm and blues performers of all time.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

It's reasonable, I think, to invoke Dr. Johnson here, Samuel Johnson, who writes in his Life of Milton that Milton's unskillful allegory appears to be one of the greatest faults of the poem.

我认为在这引用塞缪尔·约翰逊的话是很合理的，他一生都在写关于弥尔顿的文章,他指出弥尔顿不熟练的寓言成为了这部诗的大败笔之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Tars Tarkas and his green warriors caused the greatest excitement.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

The existence of that play shows to all of us just how seriously Socrates was taken by the greatest of his contemporaries and Aristophanes was along with Sophocles and Euripides and others among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.

这剧本的存在让我们所有人了解到,当代大师有多看重苏格拉底,包括亚里斯多芬尼斯,还有索夫克里斯,尤里庇狄思等大家,及其它伟大的希腊剧作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says young Muslims are often confused by disturbing Internet images of their brothers in faith being killed in conflicts, and that one of his community's greatest challenges is helping young people interpret current events.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

If he went to Troy, he would die, but his memory as the greatest of the Achaeans would be immortal forever. Well, you know the choice he took and you know that it turned out to be right.

如果他去了特洛伊,他可能会战死,但他将被作为最伟大的雅典人受万世颂扬,而获得永存,你们知道了他的选择,也知道最终这个选择被证明是正确的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选