A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Paris is a commune, but so is a village of twelve people, is a commune--36,000. In World War One, only twelve didn't have somebody killed.

巴黎是个居民点,但是一个12人的村子,也是个居民点--36000个,在一战中,只要十二个没有死人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

A person in one of Faulkner's stories says, "God created man, and he created the world for him to live in.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

And as an introduction to faces I have a brief film clip from Paul Ekman, who is one of the world's great scholars in the study of facial expressions.

作为对脸的简介,我播放保罗，艾克曼的短片，他是伟大的学者,对面部表情很有研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For example, one afternoon a group of writers and critics gathered to discuss book sales in the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

His name will come up again in several contexts later in this class, and then also in subsequent classes because he's a very fine nutrition researcher, one of the best in the world.

他的名字还会在这节课的后半段,及之后的课程中还会反复提及,因为他是一位非常出色的营养学专家,在世界上数一数二

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.

那么我就到此为止了，星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Director Kevin MacDonald wanted to make a documentary that shows one day in the life of the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

So,if you take number one--but we don't have to go through them all and I assure you we won't--if you take number one, the Ain,a-i-n,it's named after a river; or if you take number two,the Aisne,a-i-s-n-e, it's named after a river; and how many hundreds of thousands of people died along there in World War One or,you take number three,the same thing,Allier.

如果你看第一个省,我向你们保证,我们不用挨个了解,看第一个省,安省,a-i-n,来自一条河的名字,或是第二个埃纳省,a-i-s-n-e,来自于一条河的名字,有成千上万的人在这里死于,第一次世界大战,第三个,阿列省

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Or,she can let you try a "single origin" chocolate grown in only one area of the world.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

- You then run a compiler, in our case called "GCC" -- -- one of the world's most popular -- and then you can run it with some number of switches, these command line arguments as they're called that somehow influences the behavior of this program.

然后你们运行编译器，在这里我们使用叫做“GCC“的编译器-,这是全球最流行的-,然后你们可以通过一些命令来运行这个编译器，这些命令行参数可以,影响这个程序的行为。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

Among the project's findings is one that a group of Antarctic islands are richer in animal life than the world famous Galapagos Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

The two leaders will meet in the Czech capital, where,one year earlier, President Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Simbo says he can make up to $100 a week, an impressive take-home in one of the poorest countries in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The national budget has not been passed, the economy is stagnant, and development is at a standstill in one of the world's poorest nations.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The mayor hopes to make London one of the greatest cycling cities in the world, even so,riding a bike through the capital has its challenges.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Wednesday's incident escalates a long-running dispute in one of the world's most isolated regions.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

just because you have a different religion or you're born in a different part of the world, we all experience the pain of a lost loved one,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12