Anything in art,music or literature which is very modern or ahead of its time is called avant-garde.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As Elizabeth Rhodes says, that was a revolutionary message for its time.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

That's the history of the world; the whole human race has spent the bulk of its time farming.

那就是这个世界的历史事实,全人类花费了大量的时间,用在了农耕上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.06

A mule is not spending 1/2 of its time as a donkey, and 1/2 of its time as a horse, we don't see it flickering back and forth between the two, that's not what we see.

骡子并不是一半的时间是驴，另一半的时间是马，我们不会看到它在两者之间来回变化，这不是我们所看到的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The book uses the racist expressions of its time.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

And nothing in this world should be done before its time."

没有事物在它不该结束之前就结束

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

(SAYING) Several news editorials have said the state could better spend its time healing a crippled economy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

We never sell the wine before its time, something like that. On television, in different acting roles, he would take any worthless role in somebody's movie just because there was such a large fee, and he will pour that into his movies.

之前人们对这种酒闻所未闻，在电视上，在饰演,不同的角色时，他在一些电影中做不起眼的角色,因为这可以,赚到一大笔钱，然后可以投到自己的电影中。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But after eight years of war, amid rising casualties and wavering American public support, and with huge national security issues at stake, he says the administration needs to take its time and get the decisions right.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

What Frost gives you here and elsewhere is a poetry that leaves its meanings to make, all the time.

弗罗斯特在这儿留给你们的是一首,留下意味深长的语境的诗歌，需要不断地钻研。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Ten years ago at this time, NATO was bombing Serbia to end its violent campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

And the time is going to come when the car will cease to exist but its parts will still be around.

而车有一天会不再存在了,但它的零件却依然存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

And according to the Book of Joshua, Israel's tribal structure assumed its classical form at this time.

而且根据《约书亚书》,以色列的支派在那时已显示出了阶级形态。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The volcanic eruption was the second time in two years that Iceland has shaken its neighbors to the east.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

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

The group says this was the first time it gave a documentary crew unrestricted access to its field operations.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

For the first time the W.H.O.raised its alert level from phase four to phase five on April twenty-ninth.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

We study its unfolding in time.

所以，我们从一段时间上来认识语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

They also allow their populations of proteins on the surface of each cell that allow it to interact with its environment, they're receptors and cell adhesion receptors like I talked about last time.

它们同时也使得,这些细胞表面的蛋白质群,使得细胞能够和周围环境进行互动,它们是受体和细胞粘附受体,我上次也说过的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The baby will open its mouth twice, the second time with a nice wide mouth, and lean in to grasp the breast.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

So It's on television all the time, but television used to be almost 100% of the marketing and its share of the overall marketing burden if you call it that has--is going down, but other things have taken its place.

它不停地在电视上播放,营销中,电视过去占有份额是100%,如今它占整体营销开支的份额在下降,还会发生其它事情

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Initially, its location as a function of time is equal to i times x plus j times y.

初始时刻,它的位移作为时间的函数等于,i ? x + j ? y

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选