"Just imagine,a severe pandemic coming at such a fragile time in a world where there are many people suffering from chronic diseases like heart disease, lung disease,including asthma, cancers,with many more people suffering from HIV, obesity and the list goes on,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

While we're here, let's just mention that things will get more complicated in a world where I don't actually know the payoffs of my opponent.

现实中我并不知道,我对手的收益到底是什么样的,这会使事情变得更加复杂

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

but it's not like Law or working in the financial world where you’re gonna get a good salary, so.

但它不会像法学或者在金融界工作一样给你带来很高的薪水，

建筑学专业教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The World Health Organization estimates that more than three billion people live in areas where malaria is a threat.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

You can look at it with those poems in mind where Yeats imagines a new world coming into being, ushered in through the blood of the old.

你们可以回忆一下那两首诗,其中叶芝想象了一个新的世界，那从旧世界鲜血里开辟。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In the book, she noted that people were living in "a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

And this is about... I think in some ways what I describe Princeton as is a privileged but a microcosmo of the world where people are coming together and bumping up against people with whom they very much disagree.

这是关于。,我认为，我觉得普里斯顿大学,是一个特殊的,整个世界的缩小版,人们从四面八方聚集,遇到一些与自己想法,出入很大的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"And no matter where you are in the world, that is a very important thing, to be proud of who you are and be able to let people hear what you have to say, whether they like it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

This is how this logic goes -- we are all familiar with this: our body remains to molder in the earth or welter in the ocean , but our incorporeal spirit rises to heaven where it can enjoy an ethereal, a bodiless, world of eternity.

就是这种逻辑--我们都熟悉这个：,我们的肉体在地下或是海底归于腐朽,但灵魂却会升入天堂,在那里享受无形的永生。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

That is the dominant sort of paradigm of what life is all about, at least in the Western world and a good deal more of it where the West has had an influence.

这可以说是有关生命的一种主导范式,至少对于西方世界,以及受西方影响的其他国家是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I think it's awesome that a place like this exists, that the children and everybody in America and throughout the world can come and see where democracy began and where it developed over the course of history and the course of time."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

I'll tell you, in the south of France near where we live, when there was a lot of resistance in World War II against the Germans, there were some Protestant villages there that were noteworthy for their resistance.

例如在法国南部,当时我们住所的附近,有一些新教徒的村子,这些村民们在二战中奋力抗击德国的入侵,并因为他们的不屈抗争而闻名

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

We live in a world where people suffer all kinds of misfortunes.

我们生活的这个世界,人们会经历各种的不幸。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And, so, as things are going downhill many people in Paris said look, we must keep fighting, but we must imagine a different world where--we have, we're being betrayed by the provinces that are not helping us, and we need to have help from the provinces.

于是局势日渐危急,许多在巴黎的人说,我们必须战斗,我们要想象出一个全新的世界,有些省份对我们坐视不理,我们被遗弃了,我们需要其他省的援助

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

You should be sharing your risks with someone who's completely different-- probably living on the other side of the world in a completely different industry, where the weather, the institutions, and the political situation are completely different.

你应该跟,与你截然不同的人-,也许是住在世界另一端的人,从事毫不相关的行业的人，生活在完全不同的气候，制度，以及政治环境里的人来分摊。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选