"It wasn't that important. But when I married, it was always a dozen red roses from my husband.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I really have no idea whether it's a fact, and it's not important in My Fair Lady whether it's a fact.

我真的不知道这是不是真的，但是它在窈窕淑女里面真实与否并不重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

she is one of the most important things in my life,

她是一个我生命中最重要的人，

在空闲时间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The most important thing from my perspective is making sure the American people understand we don't have two sets of rules here.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

There's a term--I should write some of my terms down-- a very important term in finance and that's "dilution."

有一个词,我把它写下来,金融学中非常重要的词,叫"摊薄"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And perhaps the most important question is, is my location data tied with other facts about me?"

VOA: special.2011.05.02

The ironic fact is, because the New Testament is considered more important by people, there are a whole lot more people who take my New Testament classes than go over to the Classics Department and take a course in Plato.

讽刺的是，由于人们认为新约更重要，所以在我新约课堂上的人,远远多于,在古典学系选修柏拉图的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Germont said to my friend Dupin. "I am trying to solve a very important case.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

You could look at a similar attitude in "A Prayer for My Daughter," another important big Yeats poem from slightly earlier, where Yeats says, "An intellectual hatred is the worst, so "that opinions are accursed."

在为我的女儿祈祷中,叶芝表达了相似的态度,这首诗稍早，也很重要，叶芝在诗里说，理智的仇恨为害最甚,把观念视为可憎“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

My father is an important person.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"It is indeed an honor and a privilege to address the Council today on this important occasion for my country,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Milton -- this will be the working assumption that I bring to my reading of this poem -Milton sets out to prove something in Lycidas, and the most important thing that he proves is his control over the learning that he has accumulated.

弥尔顿-这是我个人对于诗歌的理解之中,极为有益的一点假设,弥尔顿旨在在里证明一些事情，他所要证明的最重要一点在于,其自身对于他所学所积累的一种完全的掌控。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And I also knew how important music was in my own life,and how much fun, and what a sense of community the music of the mountains brings."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

I was at Princeton from 83 to 86, got my master in chemical engineering Now i serve as the administrator of the United States Envrionment Protection Agency My engineering background is extremely important to the job i do everyday.

3-86年我在普林斯顿大学学习，取得了化学工程的硕士学位,我现在的职务是,美国环境保护署署长,我的工程学背景,对我现在的日常工作十分重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

"The issue is important for my future and my children's future as well."

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Really important to me in my life.

这在我的生命中真的很重要。

和男朋友在一起 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What's important in My Fair Lady is the functionality of repetition in the transformation of the principal character into a lady, right?

但是它的重复功能却,使女主角变成了以为优雅的女士，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's a very important part of Star Festival just as I share my stories with you, I would like you to share stories with me and with others who are doing exactly the same thing that you will be doing.

那是“七夕“中很重要的一部分,正如我与你们分享我的故事一样，我希望你也能与我,和其他人分享你的故事,他人或许正在做你将要做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Right? It's like my needs, my desires are more important than yours and mine take precedent.

就好比是，我的需要与欲望比你的更重要,所以要优先考虑我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And success, as a fourteen years-old squash player, was the most important thing in my life.

成功对14岁的壁球手来说，是我生命中最重要的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Some of the folks that we hired very early on have gone on to great, important positions. One of the guys we hired a couple of years after starting is still on my executive team.

我们早期的员工中有一些,已经晋升到高层，很重要的位置上了,一个员工是,公司创建几年后招进来的，现在在主管团队。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

And more immediately, this weekend, as all of you are thinking the most event in the world was whatever was happening in Congress to do with Iraq, actually, the most important event in the world was taking place in England where my favorite team, portsmouth, were playing Kaj, the head TA's favorite team, Liverpool.

再举个最近的例子吧,比如这周末,在场的各位都觉得世界上最重要的事,是国会对伊拉克采取何种行动,但我觉得最重要的事发生在英格兰,我最喜爱的足球队,朴茨茅斯队,对抗助教长卡茄最喜爱的利物浦队

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I need to spend less time at the office and more time with my family, telling the people that I love that I love them, doing the things that are important to me, spend less time worrying about getting ahead, making money,getting the plasma TV,whatever it is.

我要花更少时间在工作上，多陪陪家人，告诉我爱的人们我爱他们，做那些对我来说重要的事情，不再浪费时间担心如何获得成功，想着赚大钱，买等离子电视什么的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I took my role to sniff that out, and to make sure the president heard 2 and 4 on an important issue, and was able to make the decision himself.

我的作用就是发现这些，保证总统可以听到2和4这两个观点4,在一些重要问题上，然后他能自己做决定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

My argument here is that not only is it important, it also ought to be important.

我认为它不仅重要，而且也应该是重要。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

What's important in My Fair Lady is to - repeat the repetitiousness of verse-- the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain -in terms of the tautology of the plot.

重要的是窈窕淑女中,这种韵律的加强-,“西班牙之雨大多洒落于平原之上“,韵律的反复加强了情节。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选