A statement noted that while food prices have decreased from their peak last year, they remain high in historical terms.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

So it's grounded in a historical moment, and we'll come back to this and what that might mean about her perception of God.

它在重要的历史时刻落地生根,让我们回到犹太人对上帝的看法，意味着什么。

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So in the end,the canon is a list of the winners in the historical debate to define orthodox Christianity.

所以最后，正典书目只是赢家的清单,他们在这场定义东正教的历史争论中胜出。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The United Nations has named Taos Pueblo a World Heritage Site, one of the most important historical and cultural places in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Some point to the presence of Egyptian names, and customs, and religious beliefs and laws as a sign of some historical memory being preserved in these stories.

一些人指出故事中埃及名字的出现，以及风俗，宗教信仰和律法,当它们当作故事中保存的历史记忆。

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This historical film tells the story of how Britain's King George the Sixth overcame a speech problem in order to speak to his country during World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.02.21

I want to back up now because I think it's important to fill in a little bit of the historical context behind that long but important prose treatise.

我想要退回去往前看是因为我认为,补充一些历史背景对于,解读那篇冗长却又很关键的政论是很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Historical records say a trader bought the island in eighteen forty-four.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Let me give you a historical example outside of America, but in the real world, in England.

我举个美国历史以外的案例吧,那是发生在英国的事情

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

when in fact we have a pretty well-established historical record here that establishes what Stalin did as a leader,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Just imagine a philologist being confronted with the idea that the meaning of words at a certain historical moment isn't the only thing that matters in understanding the meaning of a poem.

想象一下，一个语言学家看到一个理论指出,一个字在特定历史阶段的语义,不是影响诗歌意思理解的,唯一因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Marvin Dunn grew up in Overtown, a historical black neighborhood in Miami.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

The building of buildings in the shape of what the Greeks called a megaron, a rectangular center, which has a hearth in it, a front porch, and a back porch which will be the style in which Greek temples are built in the historical period.

建筑物呈现出希腊人所称的,中央大厅的形状,一个矩形的大厅,有一个壁炉在中间,一个前走廊,和一个后走廊,具有古希腊神庙的风格,修建于有史料记载的时期

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"These ideas are probably better seen in some European communities where they have a long tradition of trying to preserve their historical development identity and had,in the past, much more orientation to walking and the use of transit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

He's known by his action in the world in historical time and his relationship with a historical people.

他之所以闻名是因为他在历史上所做的事,以及与历史上著名人物之间的联系。

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We think we understand when we see the past from a historical standpoint, i.e., place ourselves in the historical situation and seek to reconstruct the historical horizon.

当我们从历史的角度看待过去，我们以为自己理解，也就是说，把自己放在历史的条件下,重新构建历史的视角。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's in recognition of what we can think of as this time- honored historical irony that Milton writes such a memorable line, a wonderful line, in his sonnet on the new Presbyterian regime.

这刚好跟我们这次所想的相应-,这个令人尊敬的历史性讽刺，弥尔顿写得如此有纪念意义，如此绝妙，在十四行诗里，他所写的新长老派的政体。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For instance, in historical times when the Greeks referred to the great King of Persia, who was a real king and a powerful figure, a king in every sense, the word they used for him was Basileus.

比如说,在历史上,希腊人把伟大的波斯王,一个真正在各种领域,具有绝对权力的君主,称之为巴赛勒斯

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So historians can and in fact have many times taken issue with a lot of Weber's historical claims. But he's invaluable, as the critic John Guillory has argued, for our purposes in the understanding of Milton and of a lot of the cultural business of the seventeenth century in general.

所以历史学家可以，事实上已经对韦伯的历史学断言,持反对意见，但就像评论家约翰古月里说的，对我们来说，在对弥尔顿以及很多,17世纪文化方面的事的了解上,他的意见是非常宝贵的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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