He says there should have been an election to re-establish legitimate authority, which was overthrown during the first Soviet occupation in 1940.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So he had published Native Son in 1940 to great acclaim, a very successful novel.

他在1940年出版了《土生子》，广受好评，是一部很成功的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Poles still view the Red Army invasion as an act of aggression, especially the Katyn Forest massacre, in which some 22,000 Polish soldiers, police and intellectuals were murdered by Soviet forces in 1940.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cash's great classic in 1940 called The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although he's focusing only on Southerners here.

在所有由南方人撰写,关于南方的伟大作品中,韦尔伯·卡什1940年的一本堪称经典,在这本叫做《南方的精神》的书中,他如杰斐逊一般对南方人做了描述,尽管这本书中他仅描述了南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The relationship between heat and work was initially proposed in the 1940's by Joule.

热量和功的关系首先是,由焦耳在1940年提出的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选