If the lead climber were injured in a fall from any higher up, the belayer could not get him down.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The Jews were not considered Greeks, but at least they were higher in status in Alexandrian law than local Egyptians.

犹太人不是希腊人，但在法律规定却比当地埃及人地位高。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Crime is not high. I come from Detroit where crime is a lot higher there than it is in New York.

犯罪率不高。我来自底特律，那里犯罪率比纽约高很多。

对纽约的印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Anne Neal from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says higher prices do not guarantee a better general education.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

So justice is higher, individual rights are privileged, but not for reasons that depart from utilitarian assumptions.

所以公正是更高级的，个体权利是种特权，但并不能出于功利主义假设之外的理由。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But experts say the recession has not cut enrollment in four-year programs, even with their higher sometimes much higher -- costs.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The older you are, the more--the higher you tend to score, maybe obviously, not--the longer you've been in the country the higher you tend to score.

通常年纪越大，圈的人就会越多，这是很明显的，你在这个国家时间越长，圈的人就越多。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The group says it has found that students in higher priced programs are more likely,not less likely, to repay their students loans.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

It was--Modigliani and Miller said back then-- this was thirty or forty years ago-- that companies should really not pay dividends because dividends were then taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒说在那时候,大概30或40年前,公司不应分配股利,因为对股利征税的税率比对资本收益高

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The researchers added carbonic anhydrase genes to plants that do not react to higher levels of carbon dioxide.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

would have been the winning answer had everyone assumed that the average would have been constantly compounded down to 1, but since a couple of people chose the, I mean not incorrect answers, but the higher averages, then it was pushed up to 13.

如果大家都认为,平均数会一直下降到1的话,1应该是最终的答案,但是由于一部分人选择了,并不是说是错误的,但是却高于平均值的数,就把平均数推高到了13

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Rates are higher when people do not trust their leaders or feel protected or connected to society.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

But once having been cultivated and educated, people will see, not only see the difference between higher and lower pleasures, but will actually prefer the higher to the lower.

但他同时认为，人一旦接受教育和培养，就应该不仅能区分高级和低级快乐，而且会真的更偏好高级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The study says the IQs or intelligence quotients of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

All right, Is there anyone who disagrees with Joe and who thinks that our experiment disproves Mill's test, shows that that's not an adequate way, that you can't distinguish higher pleasures within the utilitarian framework?

好，有没有人不同意乔,谁认为我们的实验推翻了穆勒的检验，说明它并不足以证明，在功利主义范畴内可以分辨出高级快乐？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The high risk has investors demanding higher interest rates, and not only on Greek debt.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

So, that is not--your return is actually higher than 2.51% on an annualized basis.

所以,你的实际年收益率,应该高于2.51%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Airlines are worried not just about the recession but also about higher oil prices.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Professor Roth says poverty and unemployment do not lead to higher murder rates.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Supporters in higher education said the final bill did not go far enough.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

It does not mean that the severity of the situation has increased or that people are getting seriously sick at higher numbers or higher rates than they are right now."

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Mr.Medvedev says the government's economic planning should not necessarily count on a return to higher prices.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

President Obama told the graduating class at Arizona State that what drives them through life should not be money, celebrity or power, but a higher calling.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

But some economists say the higher wages will not affect China's competitiveness, in the long term, as companies are likely to move inland to tap cheaper labor markets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He notes prices could,of course,be higher, which would be better for Russia, but warns the government does not have the right to risk the budget on the possibility.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02