"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It had been my accidental reading of fiction and literary criticism that had invoked in me vague glimpses of life's possibilities.

我偶尔会读小说和文学评述,这让我隐约地窥探到,生活的可能性，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

because it had been established here before, but like,

因为这个俱乐部已经成立很久了，但是现在，

重建社团小组 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The bill seemed to curl up as if it had been rolled and stuck into the end of a gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It's late for some personal reasons as well. Milton had been, as you know, anticipating writing this poem since he was at least nineteen years old.

也有一些个人原因，你们知道，弥尔顿至少在19岁的时候就想要写这样一首诗了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Suppose the Milgram experiment had never been done and it was being done for the first time here.

假设米尔格林姆实验从来没有执行过,今天才第一次做这个实验。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It had been a long trip from the south back to their homes in the north.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It had been built from what remained of a captured Union warship called the Merrimack.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Marcion believed that Paul had been the only one of the different apostles who got it right.

马吉安觉得保罗是所有使徒中,唯一明白真理的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It had been a long concert. Yet the crowd kept calling for more.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was very long and when it was new it had been gray.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

We've always had our human rights, but in fact it hasn't always been there.

人权是我们所固有的，但事实并不总是这样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It had been silent ever since and it should remain silent,too.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But it had been made after days and nights of thought.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

It wasn't actually a study itself on the Mediterranean Diet, but it was a review of other studies that had been done using this statistical technique called meta-analysis.

该研究本身并不直接研究地中海式饮食法,而是运用荟萃分析的统计方法,对其它已有的相关研究进行研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And no one knew why it had been closed.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

You can go buy a score of the Beatles, for example--although they didn't design this initially with music, but after the fact,people sort of listen to it and make written-- put in written form what had originally been just an aurally conceived artistic statement.

你完全可以去，比如说买一些披头士的乐谱，但是他们当初写歌的时候并没有想用乐谱的形式传播，事实是人们听了他们的歌，再把它们写下来-,人们只是把一项为听觉设计的艺术品用笔记录下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It had been there even before Everett was born.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

So it was really cool because it was the first time this play had ever been done,

真是太酷了，因为这部戏剧是第一次在舞台上完成，

记忆犹新的表演 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

It's been a while since I've been doing that because I haven't had as much free time as I would have liked.

我已经很久没有播报了。因为我最近都没有太多的空余时间。

广播人员怎么样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring North Korean nuclear sites, said it had been informed that its inspectors were being expelled.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Well, I had been there before when I was younger and I didn't really like it.

好吧，我年轻的时候去过那里，但我不喜欢它。

对纽约的印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It took these institutions until 1993--a full six years-- to get their bond allocation back down to where it had been prior to the crash in October 1987.

这些机构直至1993年,整整六年时间,才恢复到1987年10月崩盘之前的,债券投资配置

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选