Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

We're not being merely churlish, I think, if we want to ask why someone would want to write a poem in such a form.

我们要问为什么会有人,想要写这种形式的诗并非毫无道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think it's a matter of, as a cyclist, being cautious, but also not being afraid.

我想作为一个骑自行车的人，这是自己小心的问题，但是也不必害怕。

我使用自行车 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They want to make sure their financial investment is not being wasted.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Because we've just sat in lecture and you've told us we're not being rational if we pick a high number.

因为我们刚刚上过课,你告诉我们选大数的人是不理性的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

No.the Empire State Building is not being painted.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

And it's her only her humility, the sense of not being able to, that allows her space to be able to do what is proposed to her by the angel Gabriel.

但最终是她的谦卑，对自己,能力有限的认知，才使得,她接受天使加百列的提议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Experts say the animals are not being stubborn.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

Some writers have pointed out that it's interesting that these humans are not being punished for religious sins, for idolatry, for worshipping the wrong god or anything of that nature, and this is important.

有些学者指出，有趣的是,人类并非因为罪孽，崇拜其他的神,或者因其本性而受到惩罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Red Adair was known for not being afraid.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

In fact, if I recall correctly, Plato's mentioned as not being there on the day that Socrates dies.

实际上,如果我没记错的话,柏拉图曾提到,苏格拉底死时自己并不在场

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says the relatively large number of patients who are not being treated properly for tuberculosis is fueling the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

So, when I started in college, that wasn't even an option for me and I was interested in a lot of things, chemistry not being one.

因此当我来到大学时,在我所感兴趣的科目里,根本就没有化学。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But the possibility that dead bodies may still emerge as the rubble is cleared is not being ruled out.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

If you asked somebody who was a judge, the judge would say, "Look. This is just the way things are. I'm not being biased at all."

如果你问评判，评判会说，“这是天生的，我没有歧视她们”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Human rights activists said the benefits of Angola's vast oil and diamond wealth is not being equitably distributed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Anyway, that shows that I think probability theory does have a long history, but-- it not being an intellectual discipline-- it didn't really inform a generation of finance theory.

不管怎样,这个故事表明概率论,确实有很悠久的历史,但,那时它并非以学科形式存在,也没有对金融理论的产生有过指导意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We're making people who would have been feeling sick and maybe not being able to work as much - are able to keep their jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

So if you try speaking with people and listening and not being afraid to try

所以，如果你试着用外语交流，说与听，不畏惧尝试，

想学会4种语言 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"They are willing to accept a lot of militias and this is not being solved,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Once your programs get fairly complex, it becomes harder and harder to find things and to tweak things if you're not being organized.

一旦代码稍微复杂点,而你又不规范你的代码,那么你想找什么东西就很困难了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Given the sensitive nature of the situation, details are not being made public, but as Business Secretary Peter Mandelson says the outlook does not look good.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Some of them only go so far as Athens, which had the good fortune somehow of not being destroyed, one of the few important Mycenaean places that is not destroyed.

有些人逃到了雅典,很幸运的是雅典并没有遭到破坏,它是极少数逃过一劫的迈锡尼重要城邦之一

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Mr.Toure recognized those who had worked on the legislation and assured them that this new code, nearly a decade in the making, was not being abandoned entirely.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Only certain genes are being expressed and it's the family of genes that are being expressed in a cell, likewise the family that are not being expressed, that determines what a cell is like, how it functions.

只有某些特定的基因在细胞中表达,那些在细胞中表达的基因,与那些没有表达的基因,共同决定了细胞的形态和功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They are not being allowed to come back. But whoever would like to apply afresh, credentials will be checked and a decision will be taken on a case-by-case basis,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

We're not creating jobs, the money that's being spent is not being spent wisely.

我们没有创造新的工作机会，花钱花得也不明智。

担忧未来 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And here in Nigeria, Nigerian government officials are not being investigated.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There it wouldn't be possible to invoke an intention because the whole complication of Derrida is precisely to raise the question about not knowing, not being able to voice the differance between difference and differance and not knowing whether Archie is right or whether Edith is right.

这里它不可能引起一个意图,以为德里达的复杂之处恰恰在于,提出一类问题，有关不知道的，说不出来的,像是区别和延异之间的差别,也不知道阿齐和依迪斯谁对谁错。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选