It's much more important than friends." But even a simple text message can mean a lot.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He's starting to champ at the bit. He's ready to write an epic poem on much more important subjects than shepherds and shepherdesses.

他已经迫不及待地想要写一首史诗,写一些比田园牧羊生活更为重要的题材。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and stuff is much more important than doing tons of problems particularly...

比只是解决问题要重要得多……

我的梦想是百万富翁 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said people could not control their reputation or how they were perceived, but that they could control their character, and that was much more important.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

But much more important than number was the fact that this god was outside of and above nature.

比神数量上的改变更重要的是,他们认为神凌驾于自然之上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"This is a clear decision and a clear message, not just for Palestinains but for the American administration itself that Israel is not willing and is not ready to stop settlement activities and much more important than this, that they are not ready for peace,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

You hear about credit unions a lot because they're in your neighborhood and they're advertising for small depositors, so they're in your face, but commercial banks are actually much more important.

你们常会听到信用合作社,因为它们就在你家附近,它们还面向小额储户打广告,所以比较显眼,但商业银行其实要重要得多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

I think it's important to get the spending cut too It's very...it's much more difficult to work on the spending in fact but that's essential.

我觉得，同时还应当削减财政支出呢,尽管事实上这个更难做到,但至少这一点至关重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The second half of the book turns in somewhat different, certainly equally important directions, but would take us much more time than the time we have allotted to deal with.

巨著的后半篇幅,转向不同，但绝对同等重要的方向，可所需花费的时间,将远超过我们课堂所订的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

All right. Now as you read Iser you'll see immediately that in tone, in his sense of what's important, and in his understanding of the way in which we negotiate the world of texts he much more closely resembles Gadamer than Hirsch.

你们在读伊瑟尔时，立马可以感觉到,在他的语气，对重点的把握中,以及他对我们读懂文章的方法上的理解,他更像葛达玛，而不是赫施。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In Spain, obviously Madrid, Madrid is the capital but Barcelona is terribly, terribly important, and was always a much more economically important city than the kind of command economy that was Madrid.

在西班牙,显然是马德里了,尽管马德里是首都,但巴塞罗那也,相当重要,巴塞罗那的经济地位要比,马德里这个所谓的经济中心更为重要

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

For example,it's much more important to know about cars.

比如，了解汽车就重要得多。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Actually, the automobile insurance is more important than the homeowners' insurance, even though homes are so much more valuable, because--I think that's because cars move and they drive around and they bump into each other.

实际上,尽管住宅要比汽车值钱的多,但是,汽车保险要远比,住宅保险重要,我觉得这是因为汽车是可以移动的,车主们开着车到处跑,容易相互碰撞

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选