You saved my life when I was about to take yours.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

So, literally earlier today when I was on my way to campus I emerged from the Harvard Subway Station and I was about to exit the station up the stairs when I noticed this older woman who was standing by one of these things.

今天早些时候，在我从哈佛地铁站,到学校的路上,我即将走出地铁站，上楼梯时,我注意到一个老太太站在,这样的东西旁边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I just have cycled all my life since I was about 11, so it's 50 old years now.

从我11岁开始我就一直骑自行车，现在已有50年了。

自行车是我的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I started outon my uncle's boat when I was about maybe 9.

VOA: standard.other

I was about to tell you last time about the poet Hesiod, who lived in a little town in Boeotia to the north of Attica.

上次我讲到,住在阿提卡北面小镇皮奥夏的诗人,赫西奥德

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But what I do remember was, at the end of that long, continuous coverage it must have been about two a.m.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

I was about to get them the wrong way around.

我是不是要把你们弄糊涂了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Here is the song "I Was a Bird" in which she dreams about flying high in the sky.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

I started playing when I was about nine, hitting balls with my brother and my dad.

我大概九岁的时候开始打，跟我哥哥和爸爸打。

高尔夫俱乐部的回忆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I suppose the first really significant thing that the world heard about was chimpanzees using and making tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Actually, when I was like... I think I was about six or seven.

准确地说，是在我六岁或者七岁的时候。

FAO Schwarz的回忆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I did not know she was married!" Language expert Webb Garrison tells an interesting story about the expression.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

and I played until I was about thirteen years old.

然后一直打到大概十三岁的时候。

会打棒球吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I was angry with myself for having such bad thoughts about the Catholic churchmen at Fordham College.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

I said that if I was really hygienic, and you can now wonder about how often do I shower?

但是这真的很棒，对不对？,那么为什么我要说这些呢？,我说过如果我真的很讲卫生的话？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said: "When I saw hard-working people suffering under debts, sickness and worries, I knew there was plenty to make up songs about."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

What I thought about was "what was the class that I would have wanted to take as an undergraduate here?

我所想的是“如果我是个本科生，会想上什么课？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"I had the craziest dream last night about a girl who was turned into a swan;

VOA: special.2010.12.13

I want to talk about government regulation of insurance because I said that was an important aspect of insurance.

我现在想讲一下政府对保险业的监管,因为我说过这是保险中很重要的一个方面

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Ray Freeman. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I was thinking about sex all the time and when I wasn't thinking about that, I was making money.

我成天想着性,当没在想时，我便在赚钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

I've enjoyed reading him so much that when I was asked to write a book about him, I agreed to do so.

因为我非常喜欢他的书,所以有人邀请我写本关于他的书的时候，我就答应了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I would still be doing that." That was a video about the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence made by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

I was not a part of this growing conversation about religion and public life in the 1990s.

我并未参与到90年代日益加大的,对宗教和社会生活的讨论中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I was talking last time about the concept of election or choice, God's choice of Israel, Israel as the chosen one, which occurs for the first time in the Book of Deuteronomy.

我上节课提到了“选择“这一概念，上帝选择了以色列，以色列成为选民，这一概念第一次出现在《申命记》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I was in a long distance relationship for about a year, and Skype really helped because you could actually see the other person when you are talking."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

There's that agitation that I was talking about. "The average man": this advertisement wants you to see Ulysses as a story about a man you can identify with.

这就是我之前提及的激发点，平常人：,这则广告是希望你把《尤利西斯》看成关于一位,跟你一致的男子的故事，并产生共鸣。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So when we ask, you remember last lecture I was talking about how to be somebody here lecturing to you, philosophy on Tuesday.

所以，你们记得上节课,我讨论过要如何给你们讲课的,上周二哲学课的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选