It may look like a natural environment of lakes and woodlands, but it was entirely built by human labor.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

that man is political by nature is not just to say that we become fully human by participating with others in a city.

说人类天生具有政治性,并非意指,我们能成为完整的人,仅是和城市中的其它人共同参与。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So any kind of ideas, I think any community is defined by its religiosity; they're still made up by normal individuals and human beings.

我想，任何的想法,任何的社会都是由其宗教信仰所定义的,它们仍然是由个人所组成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In the early days of human history, people survived by hunting wild animals, or gathering wild grains and plants for food.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

And human language uses this amazing trick described by Ferdinand de Saussure, the great linguist, as "The arbitrariness of the sign."

人类语言使用这些,被语言学家费迪南德·德·索绪尔,称之为"符号任意性"的神奇把戏

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The researchers also found tools used by the Clovis culture, a group of human beings who lived at that time.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

He started out by observing that all of us, all human beings are governed by two sovereign masters: pain and pleasure.

边沁通过观察得出，所有人类均受两大至高无上的因素所支配：,痛苦与快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Human rights groups and witnesses say at least one hundred fifty-seven people were killed, a number disputed by the military government.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.

因为如果你考虑一下，自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质，生后即是死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

By the end of the nineteenth century, he was developing some exciting new ideas about the human mind.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Science, or what Hobbes simply calls " by the name "reason," is simply the fullest expression of human artfulness.

科学，或是霍布斯把它称作的,“理性“,正是人类艺术性的完整表达。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Phase five is marked by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in the same area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

In this worldview, institutions--human institutions evolve only slowly over time and cannot be altered by abrupt human interventions.

在这个世界观里,制度尤其人文制度,发展得非常缓慢,而且不会被突然的人为干预改变

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Friday, the top U.N. human rights official called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes by both sides in the conflict.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

Victor Frankl Instead after especially reading about paradoxical intentions by Victor Frankl, I started to give myself the permission to be human.

但在读过,有关“矛盾意向“的阐述后，我开始准许自己为人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That was the finding of a study by the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, established by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

As each year goes by, you accumulate economic shocks, shocks to your human capital, shocks to what you own as you get older.

随着年龄增长，你不断遭受经济冲击，对人力资本的冲击，当你一天天长大，你一天天遭受冲击。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Most human infections with Rift Valley fever are caused by direct or indirect contact with diseased animals.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Only the operating system has controlling of byte zero NULL in the computer's RAM and so if a function ever returns null, aka zero, well, something must have gone wrong because that can't possibly belong to me that memory because by human convention zero is owned by the operating system; not by a program I wrote.

只用操作系统在内存中能够控制,字节0，并且如果一个函数返回，或者说0，好的，可能出错了,因为那可能是不属于我的内存,因为惯例上，0是由操作系统拥有的,而不是由我的程序拥有的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

On Friday,the UN human rights office expressed concern about unconfirmed reports of kidnapping and abuse of civilians by fighters loyal to Alassane Ouattara.

VOA: special.2011.04.02

And that was possible in smallpox because of a few characteristics of the disease: one is that it's a--it's purely a human disease, humans are the only organisms that are affected by it.

天花能够被根治的原因在于,这种疾病具有以下几个特点,一是,它是一种只有人类才得的疾病,人类是唯一受天花感染的生物

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And the waste produced by the islands' growing human population places an increased threat on the wildlife.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Virtually every major anatomical change-- think about that for a minute-- every major anatomical change that has existed in humans can be related in one way or another to how foods are acquired and processed by the human body.

事实上,每个重大的解剖学变化,你们想想,人体的每一个重大解剖学的变化,在某些方面,都和获取食物的方式,以及人类机体如何处理这些食物有关

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

African lions are also threatened by human expansion into areas that once were wild lion country.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Power is something - and this is what we learn from a reading of John Milton - power is something that is created by a human process of deification, a process of king-worship or a process of God-worship or book-worship or a process, for that matter, of poet-worship.

力量是,-通过阅读弥尔顿我们就会知道,力量就是人们崇拜外物，不断将其神化的产物，这可能是对国王，上帝，或书本的崇拜,或者，就此而言，对诗人的崇拜。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But cement manufacturing produces around five percent of the carbon dioxide released by human activity worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

So this is a piece by Strauss where he's trying to resurrect the content, or mirror the content, of a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and it's about the unleashing of human capacity as it comes forth from the primordial earth here.

通过这个片段,施特劳斯正试着,重新诠释或者再现弗里德里希·尼采,的哲学著作查拉图斯特拉如是说的内容,这部作品是关于人类能力的释放,时间设定在人类从原始的世界出现之后

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; So if you are killed by a beast or a human, there will have to be a reckoning, an accounting.

你们的血;,无论你是被人或者兽所杀，我必将讨他的罪。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选