In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Very similar, parallel stories, and yet there are significant contrasts between the Mesopotamian story and its Israelite adaptation.

比较苏美尔版与犹太人版的故事,非常相似，但是同时有很大的对比。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But there is one a cappella group that sings its songs in a mix of English and Urdu,

但是有一个无伴奏合唱团唱的是英语和乌尔都语混合的歌，

阿卡贝拉组合最棒 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But in the end there is hope for this singer, who exists only in a movie and its soundtrack.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Fourth, there's generally some arrangement, either for the publication of the treaty, or its deposition, its safe-keeping in some sort of shrine.

第四是一些笼统的安排，对条约的公布，或者废除，然后放在圣坛里，安全保管。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There he saw life at its worst, especially in a very poor part of New York which was known as Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

当现代诗歌以其各种方式极力想要操控现实时，奥登提醒我们--这在你们的讲稿上有，要小心诗歌会让人们一无所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Yet before this week, there were signs of promise of better times ahead for its nine million people.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

The South as an idea, the South and its distinctiveness was very much there even in the Colonial Period.

南方作为一个概念,指南方地区以及其特点,早在殖民时期就已经存在

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And there is more to learn. Jonathan Rottenberg says the science of crying is still in its infancy.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

And there are theories who say that by its definition film is not literary but it's a visual art.

也有理论家认它的定义说明,电影并非文学,而是一种视觉的艺术。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Still,it says, there is an immediate need for the international community to continue and increase its investment in the fight against malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

And there's a few things going on here, so clearly there is multiple sprite, multiple characters, and recall from last week that each sprite has its own set of strips or programs.

我们可以看到许多东西，譬如，很明显我们可以看到有许多小精灵，许多字符，想想上周，每个精灵还自有一套,程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There was a failed attempt to bomb a plane on its way to Detroit,Michigan,on Christmas Day.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

It's usually colored because there's food dye in it, but it wouldn't be colored in its natural state.

通常是五颜六色的,因为其中含食用色素,但在自然情况下,它是无色的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And there was a new government in Britain. Its foreign minister, Lord Aberdeen, also wanted peace.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

So, let's see what the correct answer is, Wakefield and it is, in fact, Wakefield, right, because there's an inverse relationship between how fast a particle is going and what its wavelength is.

所以，让我们来看看,正确的答案是什么，事实上，答案是，因为粒子运动的快慢,与它的波长之间是一个反比例关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There was a restaurant at the corner. She had never entered its doors.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

I would not be teaching the class just for its academic beauty, although there is a lot of academic beauty in this field.

我不会仅为了学术之美而教授此课，虽然这一领域的确有许多学术之美。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

There was a real danger that the South would declare its independence.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And you can see it wrapping its way down, cutting in half at each time until it gets there, but it takes a while to find. All right.

但是这也花了一点时间来搜索，好，让我们看看100万，或者1000万是不是在数组里。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

There was just one thing to do now to stop its suffering.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

There is nothing saying that that sodium, its positive charge has not been neutralized.

什么也没有，钠的正电荷没有被中和是。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Doctor Selanikio says there are no barriers to its use.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

There' s a way in which you can talk about it being detected by its effects.

有办法可以通过,它产生的影响判断能否发现它。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Even though decentralized England expands its bureaucracy and collected taxes much more efficiently than across the channel in France, state-making involved more officials there.

即使是在分权的英国 官僚政府也日益扩大,他们比海峡对岸的法国有着更多苛捐杂税,现代国家的形成需要更多的官员

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Its director,Ernesto Livon-Grosman, was there to introduce his film.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Is there a kind of good that we delight in for its own sake?

是否有一种好处是我们,因为它而感到喜乐？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He went there and he made a plea that General Motors should cut its dividend that it pays to stockholders, which is a reasonable thing to do.

他向管理层提出请求,希望通用汽车公司减少,支付给股东们的红利,这是一种很合理的做法

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选