Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the twenty-sixth day of November next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the beneficent author of all the good that was,that is, or that will be .

VOA: special.2009.11.23

So in any case, hermeneutics is devoted to the discovery of meaning and the art that it's concerned with is the art of interpretation.

所以解释学注重研究内容,并且将它和语言的应用相联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The entire thrust of the book is devoted to the taming of spiritedness, and to the control of spiritedness.

整本书的力道,都致力于开发意志，并控制意志。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That is something to which he has devoted a huge percentage of his adult life."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

And, in fact, the proportion as you go from rat, cat, and monkey, humans— less and less of it is devoted to projection areas and there is more and more to other things.

事实上你可以看到,从老鼠开始,到猫,到猴子,再到人类,投射区所占的面积越来越少,而负责其他功能的皮层,所占面积则越来越大

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

(APPLAUSE) The president also devoted a large portion of his speech to assuring military veterans that his administration is committed to helping them receive the medical care and assistance they require.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

And indeed, as it happens, in our department this very semester there is such a class devoted, all semester, to the topic of consciousness.

当然,这也的确是如此,我们系在这一学期,就有这么一个班,花了整整一个学期,来讨论意识问题

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Now as yet we haven't said anything about literature, and the fact is there is no hermeneutic art devoted to literature during the early modern period and for most of the eighteenth century.

到现在为止我们还没有讲到文学，在现代的早期和18世纪大部分时候,都没有任何关于文学的诠释学研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We don't know the intended recipient of this letter, and we actually have no idea whether Milton actually sent the letter; but a couple of drafts of this letter actually exist in Milton's own hand, and the letter is clearly a document that Milton had devoted some energy and some time to. We need to look at it.

我们不知道收件人是谁，我们也不清楚弥尔顿到底有没有寄这封信;,但这份信的草稿确实在弥尔顿那里，弥尔顿显然对这封信投入了不少,时间和精力，我们来看看。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So I went by night and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon, taking it and slaying all 7000 men, boys, women and girls and maid servants, for I had devoted them to destruction for the god Ashtar Chemosh", referring to herem. It is likely that such claims are hyperbolic in Moab and it is likely they were hyperbolic in Israel.

我连夜赶路，与它战斗,从破晓到正午，拿下了它,屠杀了全部7000个长幼男人和女人，还有女仆，我奉献他们给阿斯塔基摩神，这便是祭祀，这些很有可能是摩押的假设,他们在以色列也很有可能是虚构的。

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Next introductory remark: A lot of today's talk is going to be devoted to business.

下次关于这种引导性的讨论：,今天讨论的很多内容将会用于商业。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is not a regime like ours devoted to maximizing individual liberties, but it is one that puts the education of its citizens, the education of its members, as its highest duty.

那不像我们的政体,只专注于极大化个人自由，而是一个,将公民教育，邦内成员教育，视为最高责任的理想国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The remainder of the Republic is, again, devoted to crafting the regime that will produce a distinctive kind of human character, and that of course is why the book is a utopia.

理想国》的往后章节，是全面致力于刻划能催化,独特人类性格的政体，那也当然就是为何此书是本乌托邦。

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In fact, language is sufficiently interesting that, unlike most other things I'll talk about in this class, there is an entier field devoted to this study the field of linguistics that is entirely devoted to studying the nuances and structures of different languages.

事实上,语言是非常有意思的,与本门课上探讨的其他主题不同,对它的研究形成了一个完整的专业,即语言学专业,这个专业致力于研究各种语言的,细微差异及其结构

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

How can a citizen, how can this new kind of citizenship ? that he is proposing, how can any kind of citizenship be devoted ? just to private matters and not public?

公民如何，他所提的这种,新公民社会如何，任何一种公民社会,如何仅专注在私人事件而非公共事务上？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选