Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

She speaks from the point of view of a cracked or shattered mind in the tradition of a Shakespearian fool.

她所发表的观点源于,一个疯狂破碎的心灵,像莎翁剧中典型的傻子。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Use it to express your statement or understanding of a situation or of a person.

你可以用它来表达你对一种情况或者是一个人的评价与理解。

It seems 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Frost describes it here, movingly, as, well, an image of a home that is lost, of a home that has failed.

弗罗斯特动情地描述了那栋房子，一个丧失了家的房子的画面，和一个失败的家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But the researchers found that the influence of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

And then when we got to more of a cellular level, that we could actually understand how our body worked as low of a level as thinking about cells.

肺怎么工作，我们到了细胞的层面上研究问题,从细胞的角度理解给我们身体,怎么工作就更加有趣了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

About the size of a small dog, echidnas look like a mixture of a porcupine, an anteater,a pig and a mole.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

This same thing happens here, there's a transduction, one kind of a signal gets converted to another kind of a signal.

这两种过程是相同的,都是一个信号转换的过程,一种信号转化为另一种信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

When societies cooperate with the aim of creating a public good, there is always the possibility of a free-rider.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

And these are words that are very meaningful when you read the text of a problem or of a process Any questions before we got to the zeroth law?

这些词汇会非常有意义,在我们进入第零定律前,有没有什么问题,我们差不多已经，讲完了？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But the researchers did much of their work with a phureja, a kind of a potato that has only one copy.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

It underscores the degree to which this story is part of a literary genre, part of a literary convention, how much the Exodus story itself is very much a literary story.

它强调了这个故事作为文学类型的一种，一种文学的惯例，《出埃及记》本身有多大比例是一个文学故事呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Researchers have known since the nineteen thirties that the actively growing tip of a plant releases a hormone called auxin.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

In principle, you could bill your clients for fractions of a second or fractions of a minute.

原则上,你可以按分钟或者按秒钟,从你的客户那里收取费用

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in sand.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

As it becomes more of a unity it will be like a household instead of a polis and a human being instead of a household.

当它愈趋近于一体,它变成像是家庭，而非都会,更像一个个体，而非家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, a group of research scientists says it has found evidence of a similar event that happened about 13,000 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Do not think of a pink elephant for the next three seconds ? and I am sure no one thought of a pink elephant right?

在接下来的十秒钟里不要想粉色大象,我肯定没有人想一头粉色大象，是吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So you feel like you are a guest in a home instead of a visitor in a huge, impersonal museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The poet of a pastoral elegy usually represents himself as a shepherd, a shepherd mourning the death of a fellow shepherd, and he often explains that the death of his shepherd friend is exerting a magical effect on the entire natural world.

田园挽歌诗人通常把自己写成一个牧羊人，哀悼自己的同伴的逝去，这个牧羊人常常描绘自己同伴的死,使整个自然界为之动容。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the job of a critic is to sometimes pan the work of a writer, artist or singer.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Now one other thing that Hirsch says, the other thing that I quoted, is in effect ] -I'll paraphrase now-- that what Gadamer omits to realize is that there is a difference between the meaning of a text and the significance of a text.

赫施说的另外一点，即我引用的另一点，现在起作用了,我现在开始来释意-,葛达玛没有发现的是,文章的含义和文章的意义之间的差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is also an image of a bell inside a copper-colored inkwell on the front of the note.

VOA: special.2010.11.15

I mean, the equivalent of a healthy teenage male slave, if you could sell him for $1000.00 in 1860 it's about the same price of a good Toyota Camry today.

我的意思是,一个健康的十几岁的男性奴隶的价值,假如你在1860年把他卖到一千美金的话,那么在今天就大约相当于,一辆不错的丰田佳美汽车的价格

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

We can be precise about how much bigger by saying, "If the acceleration of a body to a given force is ten times that of a one kilogram mass, then this mass is one-tenth of one kilogram."

我们能精确地知道质量能大多少,只需要说,"如果物体在给定力作用下的加速度,是一个 1 千克物体的加速度的 10 倍,那这个物体的质量就是 1 千克的十分之一"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Here's one, "It is clear that the emergence of the hoplite was only the beginning of a lengthy process which certainly lasted more than a century, and may have lasted more than two centuries, leading to the creation of a close ordered hoplites only phalanx.

他说道,"很显然重装步兵的出现,仅仅是漫长战争史的开端,持续了多达一个世纪,甚至可能超过两个世纪,漫长的战争造就了列阵严整的重步兵方阵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In Nabokov there is, but it's usually aesthetic: how things look, the look of a hotel, the look of a field, the look of a child, the look of a woman.

在Nabokov的书中有：,不过一般是美学的：事物看起来怎么样，旅馆的样子，田地的样子，小孩的样子，女人的样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选