And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Okay, but it may be-- how many national anthems around the world do we have in minor keys?

好了,但是也许,世界上有多少个国家的国歌,采用的是小调呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Occasionally, you do run into pop pieces, folk songs, in minor, but most of them are in major-- probably about eighty percent in major.

大家偶然也会碰到小调的流行音乐和民歌,但大多数还是大调,大概百分之八十是大调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I was hired in a minor role on the CBS production team for that night's broadcast.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

So on their way to conquests in Egypt, or Asia Minor or Mesopotamia, armies would tramp through the land.

当他们前行征服埃及，小亚细亚或美索不达米亚时，他们践踏这片土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He accepted the award in a wheelchair after a minor operation became major ankle surgery.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Because whenever we say,"Asia Minor," we're talking about that section around the Mediterranean that now is called Turkey. But it was called Asia Minor, generally,in the Roman Imperial Period.

因为当我们说到“小亚细亚“,指的便是地中海附近,现在那里叫土耳其，但在罗马帝国时代，它通常被称为小亚细亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Soon,the rate of minor crimes in New York began to drop.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And so, that was a clear major for me to pick -- I actually also was considering English and ended up being a minor in English.

所以这是我的主要选择之一-,我还考虑学英语,最后英语是我辅修的专业。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

However,a minor accident and weather conditions forced a change in plans.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

We have hard evidence of that in Egypt, in Asia Minor, and in the Tigris Euphrates Valley.

而在埃及,小亚细亚,和两河流域却找不到类似的证据

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

During this time, Dean launched his singing career with Columbia Records and produced a string of minor hits in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Also, the filing cabinet-- that sounds like a minor thing-- was invented in the 1890s.

还有档案橱柜-,听起来很微不足道-,是在19世纪九十年代发明的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He added that some stations experienced minor difficulties in operating the electronic registration rolls and party observers arrived at some polling stations without proper accreditation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

These are some minor characters who lived with them and went to Columbia with them, or were in their circle when these writers lived in the neighborhoods ] in New York around Columbia University.] So, Allen Ginsberg is Carlo Marx, and Ginsberg went to Columbia.

这些是和他们住在一起的次要人物,和他们一起去了哥伦比亚的，或者当作者住在,纽约哥大附近的那个小区时,是他们圈子里的人],因此，艾伦金斯堡就是卡洛马克思，金斯堡去了哥大。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Last year alone, colleges and universities across the country created more than 100 major or minor programs in energy,sustainability, environmental studies and other so-called green subjects.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In 2007,he suffered symptoms associated with a minor stroke.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Lynda, what would you say, what percentage of classical pieces are written in minor keys?

琳达,你怎么看,古典音乐中小调所占比例是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Of course, it's in minor and the voices will come in, but the bass is going, sort of plodding along in a basic duple but with a triple subdivision underneath of that.

当然,它是小调的,人声将会进入,但低音是这样,按基本的二拍子缓慢地行进,但在那下面还用了一个三连音的节奏细分

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Okay, that's a little bit of this ambiguity between major and minor in a piece of traditional Jewish music.

好了,大调和小调,在传统的犹太音乐中有些含糊的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You have the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and then the twelve minor prophets, which in the Hebrew Bible get counted together as one book, because those twelve are very small.

先知书里有三大预言家，以塞亚，耶利米和以西结，后来还有12个小先知，他们因为很小所以，全部被收入了一卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That's Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, in minor.

这是格什温的《波吉与贝丝》,小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He defeated the Persian Army in Asia Minor at Granicus, the Battle of Granicus, in 334.

他在小亚细亚的格拉尼库斯击败波斯军队，也就是公元前334年的格拉尼库斯河战役。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And what Alexander and his successors did was they took that basic Greek structure, and they transplanted it all over the Eastern Mediterranean, whether they were in Egypt or Syria or Asia Minor or anyplace else.

而亚历山大和他的继业者,把这些希腊式结构，移植到了地中海东部各地，无论是埃及，叙利亚，小亚细亚还是其他地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

That put Alexander and his Macedonian Army in charge of both Greece and Asia Minor.

亚历山大由此控制了希腊及小亚细亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So, we've got scales that are in the major mode; we've got scales in the minor mode.

我们已经听过大调的调式了,我们已经接触过小调式了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So, that minor third can show up very early in the scale.

那么,这个小三度在音阶中出现得相当早

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选