That way,there would be "two great American national festivals," she said, the other being Independence Day on the Fourth of July.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

It's this kind of wealth that allow them to fight this long, hard war of independence, which they finally win.

这些所带来的财富,就成了他们为之奋斗的原动力,使得他们在艰苦的独立战争中获得胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the Scottish are often asking for independence.

苏格兰人还经常要求独立。

英国与英格兰 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She found they all valued their independence and many enjoyed having the power of control, though not all wanted it.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

I think assertions of national identity and independence are often predicated on differentiation from others.

我想对国家身份和独立的断言,基础常常是与他者的区分。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the late seventeen hundreds, many events that took place in Philadelphia gave birth to the American Revolution and independence.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

because you read the Bill of Rights, for example, The Declaration of Independence, citizens have a duty to put a new government if it is not serving well the people.

举个例子，如果你读《人权法案》,或者《独立宣言》,如果政府不够尽责,公民有权支持一个新的政府。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He was to help the government build an army for defense purposes as the Philippines began planning for independence.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

That's why we need independence of the central bank; we want to have a central banker that can say no to the government.

这就是为什么我们需要独立自主的,中央银行；,我们希望有一个可以对政府说不得,中央银行家。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For example, there is a marble statue of Sam Houston, a leader who fought for independence for the state of Texas.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

But Plato's Republic recognizes no such separation or no such independence for a private sphere.

但柏拉图的《理想国》并未体认到这种区隔,或是这种私人领域的自主性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The two sides agreed quickly on the issue of Cuban independence, and an American takeover of Puerto Rico and Guam.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Which would of course cripple the global economy, because as much as we want to win our independence from oil, most of our oil were still coming from the Middle East.

这将导致世界经济瘫痪，虽然我们一直竭力发掘本国石油资源，我们绝大部分的石油,仍然来自中东。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

We see it in the American Declaration of Independence.

在美国《独立宣言》中可以看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

September fifteenth was chosen as the starting date because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

How much independence does it take?

需要多少的独立性呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It would violate the Constitution and the ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence: the idea that all men are created equal...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Serbia will never under any circumstances recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of the so-called Republic of Kosovo."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"I have selected a nominee who I think embodies that same excellence,independence, integrity and passion for the law."

VOA: special.2010.05.15

In Japan in 1997 the government of Japan granted the Bank of Japan independence like the U.S. central bank.

在1997年，日本政府批准了,日本银行像美国中央银行一样拥有自主权。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They got Mexico to agree to recognize the independence of Texas, but only if Texas agreed not to join the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The American Bar Association's Committee on Judicial Independence is working on guidelines for when judges should recuse themselves.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

One of the first principles of probability is the idea of independence.

概率论中最基本的一个原则,就是独立性的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Her left arm holds a tablet with the date of the Declaration of Independence July fourth,seventeen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

In other words, we should not care what people say about us, but we should be prepared to develop qualities of self-containment, autonomy and independence from the influence that others can exercise over us.

换句话说，我们不应理会别人怎么说我们，而我们应准备好,发展自制的特质，自治与自主,排除他人,可能对我们的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is the center of his life and it explains the Greeks devotion to the independence, to the autonomy of the polis, and their desire to beautify and make it as great as it could possibly be.

这理论是伯里克利的一生所求,并且它解释了希腊人民,为何对独立,对城邦的自治权,如此忠护,以及他们为何如此渴望,去竭尽全力地美化和建设城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选