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VOA: special.2009.12.28

And I think there's that constant tussle going on in us Circumstances can push someone one way while another certain encouragement pushes more towards acting ethically.

在我们的内心时常会有这样的斗争,特定的环境促使我们选择漠视,同时，一些鼓励促使我们依照道德行事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The other way is that like, they facilitate us in having like little meetings with professors and that kind of things,

同时，学校还会帮助我们邀请教授和我们一起开小型会议，

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VOA: special.2009.07.29

There is in us at least an element that is free, independent, serving nothing, autonomous.

我们的人性中至少还有一种元素，它是自由的，独立的，而且不依据其他事物存在而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In light of the Pakistani Taliban's alleged involvement, some speculate there could be a shift in US policy toward Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

And where will people come from that, if they all follow the psychology of fear and ? self-interest that Hobbes wants to instill in us?

如果都按霍布斯灌输给我们的那样想，时刻保持着恐惧和利己的心态,那又从哪招募那些消防员，警察和军人呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Seki's 442nd Regimental Combat Team became the most decorated unit in US military history for its size and length of service.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

And,again,to us in the modern world, if you didn't already have some exposure to religious narratives like this,that would sound odd.

同样的，对现代人来说，如果没接触过这类宗教描述,可能会觉得奇怪。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Six weeks and six failed attempts later to contain the worst oil spill in US history, BP says it will try again.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

But in terms of us going to the grocery store and thinking about things, probably we're all breathing sighs of relief.

但是如果我们走进商店,以后想到这些的话，我们都应该松一口气。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The study reflects the ongoing problems in US health care.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

With the success of The Dark Knight we were in a position where the studio was prepared to put a lot of faith in us and trust us to really do something special."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Thirteen: "He would work through arguments right in front of us, " which then helped me work through them on my own."

十三：，“他能在我们面前论证论点，这样帮助了我自己对它们进行论证“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We now need for the public and the media to recognize the progress and to join us in this fight which is not limited to government but has taken root in all of the society."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Was it for want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?

是因为埃及缺乏坟墓,所以你带我们到荒野中来吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"What EU NAVFOR would like to see, and probably other commanders in the area, would be for all regional players now to take this threat seriously and all regional players in the area to join us in fighting this scourge, this criminal activity."

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

It's nice, though, only in that it will give us an opportunity to fill in the blank.

这是美好的，虽然，只有在那个里面它才会给我们一个机会,来填充那个空白表格。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"Mr.President," he said, "at this time it is suicide -- murder and will lose us every friend in the North.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

So, in fact, as Thucydides tells us beautifully in Book V, when the two armies actually hit each other they have already made a slight turn to the right.

因此,事实上,像修西得底斯在第五册里优雅描述的那样,当两军真正开始接触时,他们已经略微向右转了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I think the story in some ways tells us what we want to think of ourselves as an American.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

These are particularly callous and cold-blooded statements suggesting that this instinctive empathy, this aspect of moral thought, is not-- is present in most of us but not in all of us.

这些极其无情冷血的话,表明移情这种本能，这种道德观念的一个要素-,存在于我们大部分人当中，但不是所有人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Just the two of us, rolling on in a cloud of friendly company and smoke from his cigar.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So,the wide and narrow ring widths of the chronology that we developed in Asia provide us with a measure of monsoon variability."

VOA: special.2010.05.25

He is often said to be the second most powerful man in the country after the president who is the most powerful man not only in the US, but also in the world.

他经常被人们称为,位列总统之后,国家里面最有权力的人,而总统不仅是美国,而且在世界上，都是权力最大的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Anderson then told the southerners, "If you do not shell us to pieces, hunger will force us out in a few days."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

to causes of death in the world, to illustrate that what happens in the world around us in the U. S. isn't necessarily the same asin the U.S. isn't necessarily the same as what happens in other places around the world.

而是关于世界上所有人的死因,它说明同美国的情况相比,世界其他地区的情况,有所不同

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选