And Johnson was president. It was up to this little-known former tailor to make the decisions on reconstruction on rebuilding the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state, the older Roman Empire.

神圣罗马帝国，是马奇亚维利那年代的称号，那是古罗马国的继承者，即较古老的罗马帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I think it was also really well known for its shopping.

我想这儿也因购物而闻名。

关于SOHO - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Pampa was known as a "boom town" because it had grown quickly after oil was discovered nearby.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The time was in the early 70s, so factory farming was not well-known, was not as dominated as it is today, but it still existed.

那时是70年代早期，工厂化养殖并不为很多人所知,也不如今天这样占主导地位，但当时已经出现了这种方式。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

John Singer Sargent's painting known as "Madame X" was disputed when it was shown in eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It was in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

That had he known what was going on, it would be a bit more understandable.

如果他知道是怎么回事，至少会让人稍微可以理解一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Iran was apparently forced to reveal its existence after it became aware that western intelligence agencies had known about it for years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Now as I mentioned, the title of this piece was originally A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, and it seems actually to have been known by the reading public by this title for a good hundred years or so.

现在正如我提到的，这部作品的标题,最初是拉德洛城堡里上演的《面具》,它似乎已经在好几百年前,就因为这个标题被广大读者熟知了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I shouldn't havebrought you here. I should have known it was goingto be some bullshit hassle!

VOA: standard.other

It was easy to tell if somebody had an infectious disease but you might not have known that they had cancer at that time and they just died.

如果有人患有感染性疾病,那很容易判断,但在那个时候医生可能不知道,病人得的就是癌症,病人就这么死去了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

While Mr.Cameron said he was only speaking frankly, Pakistanis were outraged, and President Asif Ali Zardari let it be known he was coming here to speak frankly in return.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

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