We will try to get to the heart of the matter to better understand the most important things about words and their stories.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

The poems that matter the most to us today are those that he starts publishing around 1915, or 1914, and later.

他的对我们影响最大的诗,还是那些约于1915年后，或1914年后出版的诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On the eve of the hearing in the House said of Representatives Financial Services Committee, condemnations of AIG and the bonuses were coming fast and furious, with the matter for the most part dominating news in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As a matter of fact, it's so widely believed that asset allocation is the most important tool that I think some people have come to the conclusion that it's some sort of law of finance that asset allocation is the most important tool.

事实上,我们普遍相信,资产配置是最重要的工具,以至有人得出结论,资产配置是最重要的工具,已经算是一条金融学定理了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选