He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

What's happening right now in the United States - is that the economy is collapsing- maybe that's overstating it.

现如今在美国发生的是,经济正在崩溃-,也许这是夸大这件事。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I heard that it's getting harder to get a job in the United States. How about the students at MIT?

我听说在美国找工作变得更困难。麻省理工学院的学生的情况如何？

就业很难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It gave the United States nearly all of what is today the states of California, Nevada,Utah,Arizona,Colorado and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

I wanted to talk about another instance of regulation that is important in the united States but it's very poorly known.

我想谈谈另一种监管措施,在美国十分重要,但鲜为人知

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Since mackerel was a common and cheap fish in the United States, it was often eaten for dinner on Friday.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

You can think, " look, "the average lifespan in the United States " is whatever it is, 82 years.

你可以说，“美国人的平均寿命,“是82岁。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state or even a league of states or nations.

它永远不可能成为国际都会或世界之都，或甚至是国联或族联。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Observers say North Korea is attempting to reconnect with the United States now that it has a new president.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

The cart could be a little ways up the hill, and in this case, it's enthalpy, but again, there would be lots of accessible states.

在这种状态下，小车会稍稍向山坡上移动，在现在考虑的情况下，自由焓决定一切，但是同样有很多可能的状态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It said each of the states needed a new constitution that protected the voting rights of all black men.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

And that is global-- whether it's China, whether it's in the UK or Australia, or the United States.

这是全球现象-,不论是中国，英国还是澳大利亚，或美国。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

But it's some sort of skin disease, flaking skin disease or other sorts of boils and skin states that seem to be associated, at least in the Israelite mind, with decomposition and death.

但它是一种皮肤病，皮肤会一片片地剥落,或者是生疖和出现一些与皮肤有关的症状，至少在以色列人心目中，这种症状和腐烂、死亡联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Actually, it's used all across the United States and used across the world, about to come out in a Chinese edition for heaven's sakes.

实际上,在美国甚至全世界都在使用这本书,天晓得,马上要有中文版了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It said a citizen of the United States could not be prevented from voting because of his color.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Yes, the crisis started here in the United States, though it wasn't a crisis whose origins or entirely limited to US banks, but it's all over it. -right.

对，这场危机是在美国开始的，尽管危机的源头,或者说危机并不仅限于美国银行，但是和我们国家有很大关系，-对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It was also home to the United States Armory and Arsenal, one of only two in the country.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

I'm not aware that any other culture that had city states had ideas of this kind that helped make explain why one was associated with it and cared about it.

我没有发现,其他城市国家的文化中存在一种思想,能够解释,为什么人与城邦关联并为其服务

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The United States government said it will use "all elements" of its national power to deal with Iran.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

So whenever we're thinking about energy states, it's lways more stable to be more low in an energy well, so that's why it makes sense that it's favorable, in fact, to have an electron interacting with the nucleus that stabilizes and lowers the energy of that electron by doing so.

负的能量越多，能级越低,无论何时，能级总是越低越稳定,所以这就是为什么电子更,倾向于通过和原子核相互作用,来稳定并降低电子的能级。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It was one of the few United States forts in the south still held by federal forces.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Our little study hypothesized that foods that you could buy in the United States would be sweeter and have more sugar in it than the same foods that one could buy in other countries.

我们的研究假设,在美国买到的食品,和在其他国家买到的同样食品相比,会更甜,且含糖量更高

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Government estimates say three to seven percent of school-age children in the United States have it.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Just to amuse yourself, not for any kind of punitive think-about-the-exam exercise, but it would be fun to take these categories and think about these other countries, particularly those who were absolute states, other large important states in Europe and see to what extent you have these factors there.

我们可以做件有趣的事,纯粹为了娱乐,不是为了考试练习,即用同样的方法分析其他国家,特别是那些绝对主义国家,以及其他重要的欧洲大国,看看这些因素对政治结局的影响程度

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

On Monday the United States said it will hold the two thousand twelve International AIDS Conference.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

And just went out runs together, and it turned out we were from sort of the same region of the States.

我们一起去跑步，后来发现其实我们是来自同一个地区。

在马拉松认识的朋友 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.

但为了更形象，看看问题何在，以美国的财富分配状况为例。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选