She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Yeah, so busking I guess is, yeah, it's when a street performer is playing in a public space to try and get some money.

我想，街头表演是，就是一个街头演员在公共场所表演，从而挣点钱。

街头表演的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In 1989, about a year after we went public, we had a horrible problem related to inventory management.

989年，也就是我们上市的第二年，我们在库存管理方面,遇见了极大的困难。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

In a public letter to Mister Obama several months ago, Michael Pollan said a White House garden would set a revolutionary example of healthful eating and local farming for the whole country.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

A faith life at home, in the mosque, and a public life in school and in the YMCA and in playing basketball, etc.

在家里，清真寺内，他拥有宗教生活，有社会生活，比如在基督教青年会,打篮球，等等，他拥有社会生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Then rinse under running water. In a public restroom, if you dry your hands with a paper towel, you should also use the towel to shut off the water and open the door.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

And, you've undoubtedly heard a lot in the public press, and even in the political dialogue such as it is these days that hydrogen might be on environmentally friendly fuel.

毫无疑问你已经在公开新闻上，甚至在政治的对话上听到过了,比如最近这些天,氢气是一种环境友好的燃料。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

On Friday,Galina Petrovna, a 64-year-old Moscow nanny, let her two year old charge cool off with a dip in a public fountain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

which is significant is that lot got reading about those websites but almost no one saw them, because they were removed from public view within a few minutes after the shooting took place in the high school.

重要的是,很多人都知道了他们的网站,但没有几个人真正上过这个网站，因为这一事实被掩盖于公众眼前,不过几分钟的时间在枪击案,发生在高中里。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In a public meeting in New York late last year, the chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Tenenbaum, addressed parents' concerns about dangerous Chinese-made toys.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

So going public, I think, helped us enormously in terms of attracting a broader set of people.

所以上市，在我看来，很大程度上帮助我们,吸引到更多的人。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

"And if they continued to lionize him in a public fashion, that these kinds of public demonstrations can only have a profoundly negative effect on our relationship."

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But by continuously linking this in a public way and in taking a firm position on it, they make it much more difficult for him to move away from sites in Poland and the Czech Republic,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

And so, there's been a profound change in public presentations, public views, on race but what about implicit views? This gets more complicated.

所以人们在公众中表达他们对种族的,刻板印象发生了巨大的变化,但私下的刻板印象呢？这就复杂了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The World Bank says dealing with climate change will require hundreds of billions a year in public and private financing.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

They seem to talk about it in their own terms, which to a public finance expert is, I don't know, very populist or unprofessional.

他们似乎在用各自的术语表达“风险管理，这也许对于一个财政专家来说，听起来很平民化或者很不专业。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is a group in New York supported in part by the drug industry.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics, from the Latin term for a public forum.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One reason for not cheating is that a person might fear being criticized in public for cutting in line.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And so I live with a, with a friend who's actually in another graduate school who's doing public health.

我和一个朋友一起住。他和我就读的研究生院不同，他是公共卫生专业的研究生。

写推荐书的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But a national survey found that in recent years foreign language teaching decreased in public elementary and middle schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

National Public Radio asked exactly this question in a survey a year or so ago and they got the following principal responses back.

国家公共广播电台问过,完全相同的问题,在一次一年前的民意调查中,他们得到了如下的回复

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

We'll talk about whether food can promote health; of course it can if done right, and we'll talk about the specific properties of food that promote good health and what can be done to increase the opportunity of food to improve the public's health in a national and international way.

我们将讨论食物是否能促进健康,当然,适当的饮食能促进健康,我们还将讨论健康食品的特殊性质,以及我们如何,通过食物来提高,全国乃至全世界公众的健康水平

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

English law defined seditious libel as criticizing the government in such a way as to reduce public confidence.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And believe me, make sure that your government does not cut your public sector in a downturn.

相信我，千万不要让政府在萧条期削减你们的公共交通。

纽约的公共交通 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But, you know, I know someone who was a teacher in a Chicago public school for decades and lost his job, teaching math to high school kids, because he is gay.

我认识一个任职于,一所芝加哥公立学校几十年的老教师,被解雇了，他在高中教数学，仅仅是因为他是同性恋。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选