It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Russian empire, the state of Muscovy had already expanded greatly, but it's really Peter the Great, it's the big guy who expanded Russia, its territorial size enormously.

沙俄帝国在此之前已有大幅扩张,但是,是彼得大帝,是这个大家伙扩张了俄国领土,他统治下的沙俄幅员辽阔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Soon, reports of its great natural beauty were sent all the way back to Washington, D.C.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But you do not really need a photograph to remember its great natural beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He said the United States must build up its sea power,too, if it wanted to be a great nation.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

One side wins the argument and the battle, and sometimes the ill will is so great that the losing side feels either that it has to flee for its safety, or it chooses to flee rather than to live under their opponents.

若是其中一方获胜,有时候失势的一方面临威胁,会离开这个地方以求自保,或者是逃离他们的敌对派系的压迫

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

It,too,is hungry. Traveling across the ground at great speed, the cat nears the area where the pig is fighting for its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The expression "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

But this week its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,said the world has entered what he called "a great recession."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

This is a great news for Europe." Serbia had asked the court for its opinion.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

Its aim is to increase public understanding of great apes through research, education,and activism.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

It was one of the great engineering wonders of its time.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Have you lifted the oppressive sanctions? Have you stopped insulting us and making accusations against our great nation and its leaders?

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Otherwise,he warns, the great Iranian nation which has developed its own nuclear technology will produce the fuel by using its own know-how.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

Four and a half years ago, the National Zoo unveiled its new addition to great fanfare.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The Great Ape Protection Act is currently making its way through the U.S.Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"What makes Chicago such a great host is its people!

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

And secondly Israel, even though itself, its people originally suffered a great holocaust - the great genocide of World War II - has not recognized it, again for strategic reasons, its connection with Turkey."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

"We really wanted to go out emotionally and have people walk away with the feeling maybe there is no such thing as 'happily ever after,' but even with all of its flaws, life is really great."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

"That should not be known as a great country." In issuing its ruling, the Supreme Court sent the case back to Chicago for a lower court to issue the final decision, so the gun ban remains temporarily in effect.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

And,so I don't see the refueling as being a favor to the United States but rather a contribution that the Japanese have made that is commensurate with its standing as in the world as the second wealthiest country and one of the great powers,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.20