But alcohol is banned in first-year dorms -- where most students are under twenty-one anyway.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.

这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果,某个人比其他所有人跑的都快,就好像这场竞赛中,除了第一你别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Or a painting may strike you in a completely different way that you didn't even see in the first time.

或者一幅画以完全不同的方式给你留下另一种印象，而这个你第一次看的时候甚至没有发现。

大都会艺术博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example,in first grade, students should be asking and answering questions about something they read.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

> So dive right into the middle so if you would now simulate would a typical human might do, where would you dive in first to find Mike Smith?

直接翻到中间,你现在模拟的是每一个正常人都会做的事，要找Mike，Smith你第一次会先翻到哪儿？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Right now, Jeff Gordon is in first place in the Sprint Cup series.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

In the first account in Genesis 1, The creation of human is clearly the climactic divine act: after this God can rest.

在《创世纪》第一章中的第一种描述，人类的创造是上帝最具神性的行为：,在此之后神便可安息。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Malaria,diarrhea,and typhoid- water-related diseases that are not fatal in First World countries- cause half of the child deaths in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

He's without question the most compelling figure, certainly, in the first two books and, I think, arguably in the entire poem.

他是前两卷书中最引人注目的角色，当然，也可以认为是这首诗中最引人注目的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"It's not a competition. It's not a sports event. There's no pistol going off and we all run and the guy who does it under 10 seconds comes in first.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

In our first class, we had the former chief social worker inspector for the entire country of Scotland within the class.

在第一班里，学生中有来自苏格兰的,全国前社工总监。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

And, again, that seems to point back to Thrasymachus' point of view in the first book of the Republic.

这又把我们带回到,第一本书《理想国》中,特拉西马库斯的观点上。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

I know you guys need the rest and interestingly, the best sleepers are in the first couple of rows.

我知道你们需要休息,有意思的是,睡得最香的都坐在前几排

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In the first season of the show, Sookie's friends are not very happy that she is interested in a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

You'll also see that they have all the physical constants that you're going to need, and also a bunch of the actual equations that we've been using in the first couple weeks here.

大家还可以看到这里有,你可能会用到的所有物理常数，还有一堆公式,是那些我们这几周来一直在用的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

In the first half of class, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the class and introduce some of the questions that we will think about over the term if you stay in this course.

在这堂课的前半部分，我将告诉你们一些关于这门课的事,介绍几个如果你选择这门课,就将在这学期里考虑的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said home prices fell seven percent in the first three months of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

I've added the ability to have more complex data structures here. But I dropped a hint in the first lecture about what you could computer with things. In fact if you think for a second about that list, you could ask what can I compute with just that set of constructs?

我添加了使用更复杂的数据结构的能力,但是我在第一节课给大家了了一个,关于你可以用什么来做计算的暗示,实际上如果你思考,这个列表一会儿的话,你会问我可以用？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Many of the songs in his first two albums were about political and cultural problems during the nineteen nineties.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

These are the basic theoretical structures that you incidentally need for the problem set, ... the first problem set. The first problem set-- I guess you've--you can turn in your first problem set here before you leave because it was due today.

这些是基础的理论框架,你会在做习题的时候用到它们，第一道练习。。。第一次练习是-,第一次练习作业的截止日期是今天,所以你们在今天在离开前把作业交上来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In the first example, you could be at a social gathering and you really feel the need for some nicotine.

在第一个例子中，你可能在一个社交聚会上，你特别想找个地方抽根烟。

Do you mind 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

It still seems wrong in a way that it doesn't seem wrong in the first case to turn, you say.

反正就是不对,而在第一种情况，这样做就是对的，是吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In the first place, by and until the twentieth century, I guess, human beings tended to stay put.

首先,我觉得,20世纪以前,人们都喜欢定居

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the first place, notice that sometimes story can be the dominant in obviously formal terms.

有时候故事明显,会占支配地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选