The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

The first is, that while God's promise is sure, the manner and the timing of its fulfillment is quite unpredictable.

首先是，上帝的承诺是确定无疑的，但实现的方法和时机却都是不可知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Sure. One of the best ways to learn any language regardless of its origins is

当然了。无论它如何开始，学习任何语言最好的方法之一就是，

如果想提高英语水平 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He stared at the birthmark. And slowly,with every breath that came and went, it lost some of its brightness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Of course, once we get to feminism, feminism will have certain ideas of its own about the vertical axis.

当然，谈到女性主义时，女性主义会对竖轴有自己的解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The parent organization gives Gone Rural boMake at least twenty percent of its profits and helps with administrative costs.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Not only now, but, I think, on some level it has always struck some of its readers as ludicrous.

不仅是在现在，我觉得，一直以来都有读者,会觉得这是荒唐可笑的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Researcher Stephen Brusatte says scientists have believed that the physical qualities of Tyrannosaurus developed because of its large body.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Sometimes we have a very electronegative atom that's going to take more of its equal share of electron density.

有时候我们会有一个电负性很高的原子,它将会获取更多的共用电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

On January twenty-sixth, the company suspended sales of eight of its top-selling vehicles in the United States, its largest market.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

But calculating it alone doesn't necessarily tell us whether or not it will just happened of its own accord.

但是计算这些物理量并不一定能够告诉我们,这些变化是否会自发的进行,而这正是我们想要做到的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Now, if you look on your handout, there's a reconstruction of this tent-like sanctuary at the top as well as a schematization of its contents below.

你们可以看一下我发的材料，最上面有对这个像帐篷一样的圣所的重组,下面有对这个圣所里面内容的图示。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One of its official organizers in the United States is a Washington based nonprofit group called Earth Day Network.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But to do that is I recognize not without dangers often severe dangers of its own.

但一旦这么做，我要坦言，不是没有风险,通常还会是来自其本身的巨大风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

I don't think the housing industry, in general,is a good place to be because of its, sometimes,violent cyclicality.

我认为总的来说住房工业,不是一个好的投资品种,因为它时常有着强烈的周期性

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

American lawmakers have also long complained that China suppresses the value of the yuan to lower the price of its exports.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

So maybe - and here thinking about the pancreas has many functions but one of its important functions is to secrete insulin.

胰腺有很多的功能,其中最重要的功能之一,就是分泌胰岛素

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The BP company pumped heavy drilling fluids,known as mud, into the top of its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Then he withdraws, eliminates basically all of its rights, and then the Duma will come back later on.

后来他又食言,几乎取消了议会的所有权利,此后杜马又卷土重来

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The director of its Vaccine Research Center,Gary Nabel, says each antibody blocks the virus from attaching to white blood cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Because I was taught good style, I'm giving that variable a name that conjures up the idea of its role, which is thankful or not.

因为我们学习了好的格式风格，我将给那个变量起一个,能使我们联想到它的角色作用，它是满意的或不满意的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

But that's changing, and more and more people do want to know the story of its food.

但这一点正在发生变化,越来越多的人想知道食物背后的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In nineteen eighty-five, he led the congressional effort to order economic restrictions on South Africa because of its racial separation policy.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The South is distinctive because of its climate, hot weather, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

南方之所以与众不同是因为,他们只承认气候的原因,天气炎热,诸如此类

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

However,the Orthodox Church in America says most of its members follow the revised Julian calendar and celebrate on December twenty-fifth.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

A couple of other things about hydrogen: hydrogen also, like other elements, has isotopes and we already saw that in 1766, Cavendish isolated atomic hydrogen and enunciated some of its properties.

一些关于氢的东西：,氢气，就像其他元素一样，有同位素，人们在1766年就发现了这一点，卡文迪许分离出原子氢,并且阐述了它的一些性质。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

We are not in a country that mandates theology in terms of its constitutional law or its governance, you never gonna have the institutionalization of 5 daily prayers and things like that, people would be penalized.

我们所在的国家并没有将宗教,写进宪法或者法律法规里，你永远不会将每天五次祷告之类的事情,形成制度规范，这对人们不公。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选