But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

All of this is Darwinian thinking and, I think, increasingly will be central in importance in the twenty-first century.

这就是达尔文所思考的，我认为，这在二十一世纪会越来越重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

On Tuesday the president gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

In The Iliad, as you can see, the warrior Glaucus uses the simile of the leaves to dismiss the importance of genealogy.

在里，你们会发现，武士格劳休斯,用了落叶的比喻来降低家族谱系的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The F.C.C.says the court "in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet."

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The concept of individual freedom has had no importance in these great majorities of cultures in human history.

在人类历史的大多数文化中,个人自由这个理念显得无足轻重

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In a striking closing scene, the ocean expert Sylvia Earle talks about the importance of protecting the beautiful world that lives under the sea.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

And a sign of the humans' importance is the fact that Humans are said to be created in the image of God, And this occurs in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

另一个表明人类重要性的事实是,人类是依着上帝的模样创造的，这是《创世纪》第1章第26节中讲到，“让我们依着自己的模样造人，与我们相仿“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

No,a newspaper reporter -- a reminder, in this age of new media and social media, not to forget the importance of the old media.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Indeed the following study that I think confirms the importance of "time-in", time to look inside.

他们研究证实了“练习时间“的重要性，开始内省的时间。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Alec Baldwin spoke at New York University about the importance of taking risks in life.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

It's biological engines, right. Things that either produce or consume biological fuel to do different sorts of processes. Also, of course of key importance to understand what the, in that case, biological thermodynamics are.

但不只是我们制造的引擎,生物引擎也是如此,它们产生或消费生物燃料,来完成不同的过程，当然，这也是理解生物热力学的关键所在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

He spoke about the importance and the promise of America's new position in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

President Medvedev also recognized the importance of Islam and Islamic leaders in the Caucasus.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Now,I don't in any way want to belittle the importance of the pain and suffering that happen for the rest of us when somebody that we care about dies.

我不想对我们在乎的人过世时,我们所经历的伤痛进行贬低。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

His name was Abraham Lincoln. This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Larry West tell us about this campaign of statewide but also national importance.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

That chapter goes on to talk about ; the importance of engaging diversity; and God telling Adam that we live in a world ; with different beings, different parts, and different pieces; and Adam having the unique gift to be able to name those differences.

那章接着谈论了,融合差异的重要性;,上帝告诉亚当我们居住在一个,由不同的人，不同的部分组成的世界;,亚当拥有独特的天赋能够,为那些不同命名。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

So when we hear any particular sound, again, we're hearing an amalgam of many sounds, and the importance of each of these partials in the aggregate of sound is what gives it its particular color.

那么,当我们听到某个声音的时候,其实听到的是很多声音的混合物,混合声音中的这些分音之所以重要,就是因为它们决定了自身特定的音色

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Senator Beveridge said the Pacific would be of great importance in coming years.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And I don't want to overplay the social importance of this, but go back a couple of years to what was happening in the aftermath of Katrina and realize how bad things get when things fail to be coordinated.

我不想再过分的强调它的重要性,不过我们不妨回顾一下几年前,卡特里娜飓风的灾后过程,就会认识到缺乏协调沟通是多么可怕

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The exhibit shows the importance of such stores in these communities.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty, the main point of which was the importance of defending individual rights and minority rights, and in 1861, toward the end of his life, he wrote the book we read as part of this course, "Utilitarianism."

859年穆勒写了本关于自由的名著，书里的主要观点是,争取个体和少数群体权利的重要性，1861年，在晚年时期，他写了《功利主义》，这也属于本课的阅读资料“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But she also recognizes the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Doctor Hepburn also believed in the importance of intense exercise.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

We tend to underestimate the importance of Freudian thought in everyday life because he's transformed our world view to such an extent that it's difficult for us to remember if there's any other way to think about it.

我们常常低估了精神分析理论,在日常生活中的重要性,因为他改变了我们的世界观,让我们以一种自己难以想到的方式,来看待世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I mentioned something of increasing importance only later, which is that you are free to pick another set of axes, not in the traditional x and y direction, but as an oblique direction.

后来我又讲了更重要的知识点,你可以随意选取另外一个坐标系,不再是传统的 x 和 y 方向,而是倾斜过的方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选