But in the United States, the main idea of each paragraph should be in the first sentence.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You say, "This happened" and then the second part of the sentence after "so ~ that" will explain why it happened.

你说，“现在是这样的情况”，然后将另一部分内容放在“so ~ that”后，来解释这种情况发生的原因。

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From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

In the very first sentence of the essay, you read the expression "the struggle for science" - an interesting formulation, "the struggle for science."

文章的第一句中有一个表达，为了科学而斗争“,有趣表达“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One received a prison sentence of six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Student: The beauty of the language and symmetry, the sentence structure, the word choice: I guess going away from the theme, more of just the language.

语言的优美和对称，句子结构，选用的词：,我想除开主题，我更喜欢它的语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I was trying," he said, "to put the history of mankind in one sentence." Later he said, "I am still trying to do it, but now I want to put it all on the head of a pin."

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Con Markievicz was the only surviving leader of the Easter Rising, condemned to death, but then her sentence was transmuted.

马克维其是复活节起义唯一,幸存的领袖，被判了死刑，但后来判决又改变了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was serving a 15 year prison sentence after being convicted of passing classified information to the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But Rwanda's constitution forbids the extradition of anyone to a country where they could face a death sentence.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

So for those of you who are nerdy enough to understand the next sentence let me just say it.

对那些已经听烦了的同学,我想先说明这点

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I am satisfied that a sentence of 15 years imprisonment is an appropriate sentence in the present matter."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

So, for instance, one example is there's no language in the world that ever constructs a question by switching the order of words around in a sentence.

举例来说,世界上并没有语言能够通过,改变句子中词的顺序,来构成疑问句

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But his mother's claim that he is a 16-year-old juvenile could pose a problem for prosecutors seeking the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

All states, all dominions that have held and do hold empire over man " are either republics or principalities," he says in the opening sentence of chapter 1.

所有国家，所有领地,只要是曾或正让君权凌驾人民之上,要不是共和就是君权“,他在第一章的开头即如是说到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

So you will use "it depends on" in a sentence when you're not sure of something is going to happen.

当你不确定某件事是否会发生时，你就可以使用“It depends on”句型。

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"A sentence of 15 years imprisonment is not disproportionate to the crime and the needs of society so that an injustice would be done by imposing that sentence."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

I said this sentence in one of the first two classes, 'all cells are the same', and you know that's true.

我曾在头两节课的哪里讲过,所有细胞都是一样的,你们知道的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Libya has maintained that it was not responsible for the downing of Pan Am flight 103 and Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence, has maintained his innocence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

And for reference, incidentally, in case you ever forget what the point of some exercise was, I'll almost always comment the code up top with a quick sentence or two that reminds you what this program does.

顺便作为参考，为了避免我们可能忘记一些代码的意思，我通常会用一两个简单的句子,在上面作出注释,那样会提醒我们这个程序是干嘛的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Mr.Thaksin,who remains in exile in the face of a two year jail sentence for corruption, maintains support from the northern rural areas as well as among the poor and low income groups due to populist economic policies while in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

When to use "the" in a sentence, when not to use "the", when to use "an" instead of "a" or "a" instead of "the".

在一个句子中，什么时候用“the”，什么时候不用“the”，什么时候用“an”代替“a”，什么时候用“a”代替“the”。

经常犯的失误 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's very simple to use. Just use "Have you" at the beginning of any sentence

这个句型非常简单。只要把“Have you”放在句子的开头，

Have you 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I put these conditions down because,of course, what I want to suggest is although the sentence everyone dies alone, the claim that everyone dies alone, is one of these things that people say, they're not really thinking very hard about what they mean by it.

我定下这些条件是因为，我想说尽管大家都说，人孤独而死，这都只是说说而已，人们说的时候并没有做什么深刻的思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I will try to finish every lecture on time, but sometimes if I'm in the middle of a sentence or the middle of a derivation, I may have to go over by a couple of minutes; there's no need to shuffle your feet and move stuff around.

我会尽量准时下课的,但是有时候如果我正在讲解一个概念,或者正在推导一个公式,我会稍微多讲几分钟,你们不用来回蹭脚,收拾东西什么的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If I were" is a great pattern to use at the start of a sentence.

If I were”句型是一个很棒的句型，它用于句子的开头。

If I were 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You want to use "so ~ that" in the middle of the sentence.

so ~ that”句型用在句子的中间。

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