"We do not yet have the critical guarantees of governance and of development capacity the other two legs of counterinsurgency,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

And not be too critical or expect that you should be at a very high level when you're just beginning.

不要太挑剔，也不要奢望自己刚开始的时候就可以达到很高的水平。

学外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If you remember from reading the Iliad and Odyssey, it is absolutely critical in the Greek religion that people be properly buried, because if they're not, then their shade goes on forever in misery and pain.

伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中提到过,死者得到妥善安葬,在希腊信仰中是极其重要的,如若不然,死者的灵会永远在绝望和痛苦中飘荡

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

President Obama says the big banks that were in critical condition a year ago do not need any new government help.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

It's not that critical. -Also... ... well exactly it doesn't affect the... You know the unemployment rate has been lower during this period than in the '70s as we talked about a few minutes ago so... Let me quote to you Pat Buchanan, Ken, alright?

没那么重要，对吧，-再则。,它确实不影响。,要知道，这段时期的失业率,一直低于70年代,这个我们几分钟前曾提到过。,肯，我们先来看看帕特·布坎南怎么说吧？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He told them it is critical to continue the effort to transfer skills and tools to Afghans so foreigners do not need to have a permanent presence there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The historical critical method, and the documentary hypothesis in particular, are not inherently biased, I want to make that point very strongly. They are simply analytical tools: look at the text and its features and draw some conclusions based on what you're finding.

这里我想要特别强调的是，历史的批判性研究方法,尤其是底本学说，本身是不带偏见的,它们只是分析工具，对文本及其特征进行评判,然后根据你的发现作出结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is not being done, and so the situation is critical."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

So, it is from the beginning a society in which the community is a critical element, maybe the critical element, an individual who didn't live in a society could not achieve the kinds of glory and fame,and recognition that you expect from a hero.

所以,它最初是这样一个社会,在这个社会中,集体是一个关键性元素,也许是唯一的关键性元素,一个没有社会生活的个人是得不到,荣誉,名望,赏识,这些英雄们才能拥有的东西的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选