But visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas can still get a sense of their historic importance.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

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

But most importantly, I think, is to go back to the importance given to the individual in Hobbes' philosophy.

除去前面所述的观点,我们还应当给霍布斯哲学中的,个人主义予以足够的重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.02

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

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

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Now next time, in my lecture on introducing you to Judaism, I'll talk about the importance of at least two of these empires, because they're very important for the history of Palestine and Israel at this time.

下次课讲犹太教时，我会讲到至少其中两个帝国的重要性，因为他们对当时,巴勒斯坦及以色列影响非常大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

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

He has a "big head." A person who is filled with his own importance and pride is said to have "his nose in the air.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

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

"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

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

Maya Lin knew that history is very important for us, while we also want to emphasize the importance of looking forward. With this in mind, Maya Lin designed the building so that it has two entrances.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

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

To promote that mission Swan has just published an autobiography in which he writes passionately about the importance of a clean energy agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

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

The credibility of Afghan leadership is of critical importance to the Obama administration, which is currently engaged in a review of U.S.strategy in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

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

"At every stop,we have emphasized the importance of fulfilling what President Obama said in his historic speech in Ghana: The future of Africa is up to the Africans,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

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

The prime minister, who came from a rural area and went on to do a doctorate in economics at Cambridge, recalled his own story to emphasize the importance of putting all children in school.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

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

"This past year, I was a visiting scholar for the Phi Beta Kappa Society and went to small liberal arts colleges in the United States, and not only gave public lectures about science, but also research lectures, and then also spoke with women about the importance of bringing their intellectual force, which is formidable, to the scientific arena in the future."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

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

It can ensure that poor,rural people, whose lives and livelihoods, depend on the earth's productive capacity, have the means to produce more and to produce it better, GDP growth generated by agriculture has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. In recent years, more attention is being paid to the importance of smallholder farms.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

One more extremely important announcement, it's on your syllabus, but I want to underline it even more than it is already underlined and boldfaced.I want to underline the importance of the section discussions in this course.

还有一个特别重要的通知，这在你们的课程纲要上但我想请你们在那下面划线,这比那些已经被划出或加粗的字还重要,我想请你们划下讨论课的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选