In nineteen thirty-five, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'

VOA: special.2010.03.21

And the constant, if we redo it in modern SI units, 1 would take on the value of 1.1 1*10^7m-1 times 10 to the 7th reciprocal meters.

如果我们用现代国际单位制来改写它，这个值是1,1。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Simon and Schuster publicist Anna McKean says the girl detective stays true to her roots but is "ultra-modern."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

He died in 323, when he was not yet 33-years-old, and he died in Babylon of a fever, that is, of course, modern day Iraq.

他死于公元前323年，未满33岁，在巴比伦死于疟疾，也就是现代伊拉克。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This modern festival of African-American culture includes lighting candles each night from December twenty-sixth through New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

An eighteen ninety-three guidebook called "Modern Etiquette in Public and Private" had this to say: "Long fingers are a sign of refinement.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

He goes in a sense in an anti-modern direction, maybe even in some sense in a reactionary direction, at least in relation to other poets' ideas of progress and innovation.

他某种意义上走入了反现代化的方向，甚至某种意义上走入了反动的方向，但至少和其他诗人关于,进步和创新的想法有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Tea Party activists see themselves as modern-day versions of the anti-tax protesters from before the American Revolution.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

I always want to--modern football helmets which are monstrous-- I'm so old we used to play with leather ones without a face mask.

现代美式橄榄球的面具就跟怪兽一样的,我老了,我们小时候打球都是皮质头盔而且没有面具的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The issue--The question is, "Do modern psychoanalysts still believe that " women do not have superegos?"

这个问题是，“现代精神分析学家们仍然会认为,女性没有超我吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Rockwell's nineteen sixty-two painting "The Connoisseur" seems to express the artist's questions about traditional and modern art.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

Why did a Southern strategy in modern American political history re-invent the Republican Party?

为什么在美国政治历史上,南方人重新引入了共和党的概念呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It shows how genetic material has re-organized itself to create the genomes of modern creatures.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

There are different kinds of banks today -I'm going to jump to modern times.

今天则有不同形式的银行出现,我直接跳到现代的部分讲解

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That name could also describe a dessert served at Buddakan, a modern-Asian restaurant in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So, again, all together, this is the basis for modern chemistry, and examples I just gave you, are some of the things that modern chemists are working on -- some of the issues that our country faces and our world faces, and how chemistry is involved in that.

所以说,所有的这些就是现代化学最基本的基础，我刚给你们介绍的例子,都是现代化学正在研究的东西,一些我们国家和全世界面临的问题，以及它们和化学的关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Lacrosse is a fast-moving sport, the modern version of a game played by American Indians.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

but in the presence of the modern food environment that provides access to these things, and to foods like a pop tart with fifty-six different things in it, the body gets thrown off.

但在如今的饮食环境中,我们可以随时接触到像是果酱馅饼,这样的集五十六种成分于一身的食物,但却不利于身体健康

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In nineteen fifty-two, the group became the Modern Jazz Quartet and established its own identity.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

In the language, if I can switch to the language of modern economics, one could say that for Thrasymachus politics is a zero-sum game.

换个领域的词汇，让我用现代经济学的话来说，这可能将，Thrasymachus，式的政治,喻成一场零和游戏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

These have included a month-long celebration of the traditional and modern arts of China.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

Some of this--we tend to think,as modern people, that a written text is actually the best thing.

我们现代人通常会认为，文字资料是最可靠的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He says it is a re-imagining of the first show with a modern touch.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

The popular, old-fashioned Frost and the elite, modern Frost--these roles point to a division in the audiences for poetry that emerges clearly in this period.

这个大受欢迎，旧式的弗罗斯特和那个高雅的，现代的弗罗斯特，这些角色指出了观众的分化,因为诗歌在这个阶段表现的是那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I'm also including modern-day approaches to computational theory, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary theory and cultural psychology.

而这些理论则包括了,计算理论,认知神经科学,进化论,以及文化心理学的诸多当代理论

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选