It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

It was the World Health Organization, or WHO, which led this effort.

世界卫生组织,或者叫WHO,正在努力完成这项工作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It was the first time so many men one hundred thousand had fought against each other in the western world.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

What's the clich? Globalized world; it was a globalized world, except it was a little piece of the globe.

用什么词语呢,全球化的世界,那是一个全球化的世界,只是那个世界并不大

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This language was developed to make it easier to understand and translate documents used at aircraft repair centers around the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

It was impossible-- doctors and scientists showed, runners, athletes, the top-ones in the world proved that the doctors were right.

那是不可能的，医生和科学家证明了，跑手，运动员，世上顶尖选手证明了医生们是对的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Rudolf found it hard to believe that there was someone in the world who did not know what violin was.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

But what it allowed is I could be anywhere in the world anywhere in the city, and I could share what I was doing and maybe I could also see what other people were doing.

但它可以让我在世界任何地方,或是在这个城市的任何地方，和别人分享我在做什么,分享我看到别人在做什么。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

It was an experience that began with a few simple words: "I am going around the world on a motorcycle."

VOA: special.2009.01.14

So if that was the reason they were included in the ancient world,it's not the reason they're still in now, because modern scholars don't believe the apostles actually wrote all of these texts in the New Testament.

如果那就是它们在古代被选上的原因,它不是现代人所认为的原因，因为现代学者认为,新约里的书并非全为使徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Researchers in Armenia found the world's oldest leather shoe, and they say it was in surprisingly good condition.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Finally, if this was all there it might be a simpler world, but Freud had a third component, that of the superego.

最后，如果只存在自我和本我,那么事情会简单得多，但弗洛伊德又提出了第三种结构，超我。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It was the last of one hundred thirty five flights for the world's first reusable space vehicle design.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It now seemed to Athnaise that her brother was the only friend left to her in the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

But Athens was also something completely unprecedented in the world it was a democracy.

但雅典也是,世界上史无前例的城邦。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

When it was time for him to leave the spacecraft, this is what the world heard: "Roger,Flight,we're GO."

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Now, in the South what developed and let's define it at least quickly what developed was one of the world's handful of true slave societies.

当时的南方变成了什么样,至少我们很快就能得出结论,当时的南方变成了世界历史上,为数不多的几个真正的奴隶社会之一

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Mount Vernon hotel was the largest in the world when it was built in eighteen fifty-three.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

They elected Margaret Thatcher and there was a resolve to do something about it but it wasn't just the U.K.; it was all over the world.

他们选举玛格丽特？撒切尔作为主席,并且出台了解决问题的方案,但是不仅仅是英国；全世界都在这样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was the first in the world. Since then, about one hundred nations have followed that example.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

"One of the things the World Bank measured was how long it takes to start a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It was nineteen thirty-three. Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.

你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The world soon learned it was one of the fastest sailing ships ever built.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So this is a game that occurs in soccer and just to give an idea of how important it is for those people who are unfortunate enough not to be soccer fans here, the last World Cup was decided on penalty kicks.

所以这是一个有关足球的博弈,我先告诉在座的不是球迷的同学,为什么说这个很重要,因为上届世界杯冠军就是点球决定的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选