Most people at that time thought it was not important for young women to learn anything more than to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

This is not a wasteland of thought by any means, and the Russian formalists are an important part of what's going on.

俄国并不是一座思想的废都，形式主义者是思想界很重要的一个部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

which I thought was a really important play to read in high school.

我认为在高中读读这部戏剧作品真的很重要。

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The president's feelings were hurt when none of the party leaders thought that his idea was important.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

I thought I would give you an example from the nineteenth century, which is very important, and again it's public finance.

我想给大家举个十九世纪的例子，很重要的一个案例，又是关于公共财政的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Marx Brothers thought people might like to see funny things happen to rich and important people.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Last lecture, you might have thought this was a SHASS class, it's not like a philosophy class, and it was important to set the stage for what we're going to talk about, but we talked about very high level things.

上一节课，你们可能认为,这课没什么意思，这可能不太像一门哲学课，为我们所要讨论的去做好准备,是很重要的，我们上节课讲的是一些比较高层次的的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Some experts say this new understanding is one of the most important revolutions in scientific thought.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

I mean, they took special care of the dead and they thought that the way you buried people and so on was terribly important.

他们对死者有很特殊的仪式,他们认为,逝者埋葬的方式非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The more important he was or thought he was the bigger the wig he wore.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

To understand the concerns of Milton's poetry, it is important to understand this massive conjunction of economic and spiritual thought that's really at the heart of English Protestantism.

想要了解弥尔顿诗歌的关注点,了解经济和精神上的联系是很重要的,这就是英国新教教义的核心。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Rand thought "Atlas Shrugged" was the most important book ever written.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

I do want to talk about one important subject which you might not have thought too much about and that's lipids, because lipids are so important to the structure of the body because they make up the membranes that form the cells that are the fundamental units.

我的确想要讨论一个重要的主题,这个主题也许你们都没有深入思考过,那就是关于脂类的问题,脂类对身体结构形成十分重要,它是组成细胞膜的基本单位,而细胞膜能够维持细胞形态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He thought of it as high-minded or self-important.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

And I came to hope about ten years later, you had an important role in that, that I thought you may try to put the two together.

我希望十年后，当你们有一定生活阅历了，你们就可以把这两部影片对比着来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He decided to do this out of his love for the city of Venice and because he thought it was important to put on display the real decline of the population, to raise public awareness.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选