Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.
VOA: special.2009.02.09
In such a world it seems writing poems is a kind of--well, even surviving is a kind of guilty privilege.
在这样的世界中,写诗看起来是一种,甚至幸存也是一种罪恶的特权。
which is a city in South Eastern Africa, which is a beautiful, beautiful city which everyone should go to.
非洲东南部的一个城市,很美很美,人人都应该去。
One is a belief that a government is stable and that the justice and legal systems are fair and effective.
VOA: special.2009.12.19
One is a little bit higher and one is a little bit lower than they are in the atomic situation.
一个有点高,一个有点低,相比他们是原子状态的情景而言。
When a bone is broken in more than two places or gets crushed, the name for it is a comminuted fracture.
VOA: special.2009.02.04
And believe me, this is a favor to you. It is definitely a favor to you.
不过相信我这对你们绝对是一大帮助。
A planetarium is a theater with a rounded ceiling onto which images of the stars and planets are projected.
VOA: special.2010.09.29
Paris is a commune, but so is a village of twelve people, is a commune--36,000. In World War One, only twelve didn't have somebody killed.
巴黎是个居民点,但是一个12人的村子,也是个居民点--36000个,在一战中,只要十二个没有死人
Popeye is a criminal,a man who "made money and had nothing he could do with it,spend it for."
VOA: special.2010.01.10
They're inside that loop-I've got the wrong glasses so I'm going to have to squint- and we've got one test which is a comparison we've got another test which is a multiplication-- sorry, not a test, we've got - another step which is a multiplication- and another step that is a subtraction.
他们在循环里面呢,我带错眼镜了所以不得不斜视-,然后我们这里有一个比较的测试,还有一个乘法的测试,-对不起,不是测试,是另外一个乘法的步骤-,还有一个减法的步骤。
Manny is a wooly mammoth, Sid is a ground sloth and Diego is a smilodon or saber-toothed cat.
VOA: special.2009.06.12
This is a shift, this is a new topic that we're starting.
这是一个转折点,我们要讨论一个新的话题。
The story is about a girl whose brother is a soldier who gets killed in a desert war.
VOA: special.2009.07.27
The man is not a real man, the man is a symbol; only this time, a symbol of the real, a symbol of the actual and local of the Irish race and the reality.
这个人不是真正的人而是象征;,只是这次是真实的象征,是爱尔兰民族本地的,和真实存在的象征。
In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old.
VOA: special.2009.04.01
We accept that you look around the world and you get sensations and you figure out there is a car, there is a tree, there is a person.
当我们环顾四周,便会产生感知觉,明白这是一辆车,那是一棵树,那边有一个人。
The top proverb among these listeners is this one: "Where there is a will,there is a way."
VOA: special.2009.03.01
Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.
他们认为,内容即是功能,实用语言的目的,就是交流,我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。
A compass is a device containing a metal object that points toward the magnetic north pole.
VOA: special.2010.07.14
But 50 is a constant and 80 is a constant.
可是 50 和 80 都是常数
A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.
VOA: special.2009.07.21
Is a healthy society ? one that is literally open to every point of view, ? freedom of speech is naturally a cherished good, ? is it the supreme good?
健全的社会,基本上就是对各种观点持开放态度吗,言论自由本质上就是好的,或它是最好?
John Adams is a writer not only of music: he is currently working on a novel.
VOA: special.2010.07.19
The question we need to turn to-- I take it that just as the dualist view is a familiar one, so it's true that the physicalist view is a familiar one.
需要注意的是,如果说二元论是一种熟知的观点,那么物理主义的观点其实也很常见
A hot shot is a person, often a young person, who thinks he can do anything.
VOA: special.2009.12.06
Subprime refers to mortgages, which is not the subject of today's lecture, but a subprime mortgage is a mortgage issued to a borrower who is not considered prime--not a good risk.
次贷指的是次级抵押贷款,这不属于今天的讨论范围之内,次级抵押贷款是发放给特殊借款人的,他们不是优质客户,也就是说风险较大
Looking closer still, you can see that one is a small part of a rising sun.
VOA: special.2010.07.25
Avoiding foods that are high in sugar is a good idea to begin with, but then paying attention to the glycemic index research would suggest is a very good idea as well.
从远离高糖食物着手是个主意,留意血糖指数研究也是一个不错的想法
This particular one down here, this portion here is a heart/lung machine and this is a machine that can take over the function of a patient's heart and lungs during the period when they're undergoing open heart surgery, for example.
下面这是一个特别的设备,这一块是,心肺机,这台机器能够,在病人接受心脏手术的时候,替代病人的,心脏和肺的功能
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