This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

This textbook is very detailed and it may be-- I've had some reaction by students-- more than you wanted to know.

这本教材编写得非常详细,也许会,我听到过许多学生的反馈,涵盖面实在是太广了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is, the goldsmith only had a fraction of the gold that was owed by the goldsmith.

就是说,只有一部分金子,是金匠对外的负债

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

By nineteen twenty-five, he had made enough observations to say that the universe is organized into galaxies of many shapes and sizes.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

The best explanation is to be had by supposing that those people who behave this way-- Let's suppose many of us who behave this way.

最好的解释就是,假设有这种行为的人们-,让我们假设我们当中很多人有这种行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Bloggers have had fun pointing out that "1984" is largely about censorship the suppression of information in a society led by Big Brother.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Here is a cartoon which actually illustrates a classic experiment by some physiologists who for some reason had a dog's brain opened up and started shocking different parts of the brain.

这是张卡通图画,实际上描绘了一个由生理学家,所做过的经典实验,出于某种原因,他们切开一只狗的大脑,对不同的大脑区域进行电击

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So is it still being taught? "If the results of a survey we had published this year are accurate, it is being taught by about ninety percent of teachers in grades one to three."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Aristotle, who was increasingly being embraced by civic republicans in England of his time had been brought up, according to Hobbes, on Aristotle's teaching that man is by nature a political animal.

在霍布斯成长的年代里,亚里士多德受到英国共和派,日益增长的拥护，在霍布斯看来，亚里士多德教导人们,人类本性上是政治性的动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

I just saw an exposition of them of photos that had never been seen before; but, anyway, this is the Hotel de Ville which is down by Notre Dame, Don't worry about these places.

在一月我看了一个,都是些从未展出过的照片,言归正传,这就是市政厅,南边毗邻巴黎圣母院,不用操心这些地名

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Two voters in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, where there is a significant Taliban presence, had their ink-stained fingers chopped off by insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

The plan now is to have about a thousand and nine hundred something civilian people on the ground in Afghnastan by New Years Day which is about three times of we had last year.

现在的计划是说我们将要派大概1900平民到阿富汗,在新年之前,这个数量是去年的三倍之多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Last year we had 4% inflation 4% inflation is high by traditional standards.

去年，我们有4%的通货膨胀,用传统标准衡量，4%是很高的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But if you had something like this,by golly,this guy would be, Michigan dude is Napoleon and he's the very same person, the very same person as New York dude.

但如果出现了这种情况，你说，天哪，在密西根的老兄是拿破仑，而且他跟在纽约的老兄是同一人。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选