The American Lung Association said Pittsburgh was last in the nation in one of three measures of air quality.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The same nations and the short life expectancy of birth probably the lowest quality of life in other areas.

这一数字在下降，在上述国家,新生儿预期寿命较短，某些区域生活质量极低。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So there's not a lot of room in the government bond market or other high-quality bond markets to generate excess returns.

所以对于政府债券或者优质债券,超额收益的空间不大

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mister Weindruch says not only is life extended in the monkeys that eat less, but their quality of life is also improved.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

And this spin is an intrinsic quality of the electron, it's a property that is intrinsic in all particles, just like we would say mass is intrinsic or charge is intrinsic.

自旋是电子的本征量，它是所有粒子的本征性质，就像我们说质量是本征的或者电荷是本征的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

As temperatures rise in Napa, producers may find it harder to produce wine of the same quality.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The program in India won an Ashden Award in two thousand six for using local sources of energy to improve quality of life.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

I know the quality of individual in this room.

我知道这间教室每一个同学的才能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The award recognizes the work of individuals who have helped human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

So, that really won't do the trick in giving us the best quality pleasures of the kinds that humans most crave-- the pleasures of friendship and discussion and sexual intimacy.

那无法给与我们,人类最渴望最高质量的快乐-,友谊，讨论，性事带来的快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says the extent and quality of long-term literacy is important to individual economic success and quality of life in a community and a nation.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

He brings with it important benefits and in the passage that I'm referring to, he defines himself as a gadfly, everyone will remember that, the gadfly who improves the quality of life in the city.

他强调能带来显著好处,在我将引用的段落中，他自称是只牛虻，众人都将铭记，是牛虻改善了,城邦的生活质量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the process, a small piece of tissue is taken from a high quality orchid.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

They play with these partials on each of these notes, but this is just one sound with all of these other things mixed in to the medley that produces the quality or timbre of a particular instrument.

它们改变音符中的分音的强度,不过这只是一个声音,要算上其它所有分音的集合,才能构成一个特定乐器的音色

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The findings are based on questions about health-related quality of life in government telephone surveys.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Now, in stating this view this way, I'm obviously presupposing that we can make these kinds of, at least, overall judgments in terms of the quality of your life, how well off you are.

经过这样审视这个观点，显然我是事先假设了我们能够做出,起码是对生命质量,做出一般性的判断，你有多幸福。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"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

You want to spend your time and energy pursuing the most inefficiently priced asset classes because there's an enormous reward for identifying the top quartile venture capitalist and almost no reward for being in the top quartile of the high- quality bond universe.

你应该投入所有的时间和精力,去追逐最不能有效定价的资产,因为在那里才能通过一流的风投经理人,获得巨额的投资回报,而在债券市场,即使债券优质,经理人一流,回报微乎甚微

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"So,to improve the quality of hurricanes over the U.S.A.five days in advance, you need to get better information over Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

Adeimantus If Adeimantus, again, expresses the appetitive part of the soul, Glaucon represents the quality that Plato calls spiritedness, or thumos in Greek.

如果，表达的是灵魂的欲望，则，Glaucon，代表的即是质量,柏拉图所称的意志或是希腊文，Thumos，一字。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The recall and sales suspension is just the latest in a string of quality control problems that have plagued the Japanese automaker.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

"Very encouraging, I think they've made a lot of significant progress especially in command and control and the quality of their Kandaks and their efficiency."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Black women,in particular, had higher rates of obesity throughout the 16 years studied, and they paid the biggest price in terms of quality-adjusted years of life lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Dr.Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index - a U.S.government assessment of pollutants in the air.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The president faced a tough audience. There is consensus in the medical community about the need for reform to improve the affordability and accessibility of quality care.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

The campaign triggered a massive surge in illegal production of low-quality home-brewed alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Michael Partem is the Vice-Chairman of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and the poor quality of education being offered.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Jason Kint continues to see huge growth in CBSSports.com's March Madness On Demand feature, which allows free viewing of all the games in high-quality live streaming video.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25