"It kind of happens in the background, because I have an iPhone which I love.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If we talk about the background of the question,

如果我们讨论一下问题的背景，

Do you 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He's got a full-feathered headdress. Or he's sitting cross-legged with his moccasins and a bow and arrow and a tepee in the background type of thing."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

So, there we go. But somewhat here in war and peace of battle is slowly being relegated to the background.

所以战争与和平问题,就慢慢转移到这个背景上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Star players endure hours of interviews,talking about their football background and their preparation for the big game.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

So, that's the kind of stuff: a little bit of background about myself. So now, 1 let's talk about the perspective of 3.091 All of this will be posted. You can take notes.

就是这些事情，我自己的,一点背景介绍，现在，我们谈谈这门课程的远景1,这些都会放到网站上去，你们可以记笔记。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The chart you see here suggests that 72% of last year's students had zero prior computer science background.

这个图表显示的是%,去年修这门课的学生中,72％的人没有计算机方面的专业知识背景。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We come from the same background, we have lived many of the same struggles and we have faced many of the same challenges that you have faced.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

In the backdrop, in the background, of that expression, "struggle for science," there are two key figures.

为科学而斗争，这个表达的背景中“,有两个关键的人物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The event has added symbolism this year, coming against the background of Israel's rejection of demands by the United States to stop building in disputed East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

All right. With that by the way of background, let's go on to two -what we might call rhythmic devices here--two rhythmic devices.

以此为背景知识,我们来继续学习,两种节奏类型

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There is also a scene of a banner with an American flag in the background and the New York City skyline with the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

So I don't know your mathematical background, but the textbook has an appendix, which is a reasonable measure of how much math you should know.

我不太清楚你们的数学功底,但教材上有附录,它能清楚地告诉你,你应该掌握多少数学

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Okay, that's sort of a broad background about the content of the course.

那么,这些就是这门课程的基础背景

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

A newspaper account of the time described the background.

当时的报纸是这么描述事件背景的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But not for the sake of hashing through the history of philosophy not for the sake of analyzing philosophical concepts the way analytical philosopher would, but rather,with that kind of background preparation, seeing things that others might not.

不是为了深入讨论,哲学的历史,不是为了像,一个分析哲学家那样,分析哲学概念，而是在有了那种背景知识的准备后，看到一些别人可能看不到的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I was at Princeton from 83 to 86, got my master in chemical engineering Now i serve as the administrator of the United States Envrionment Protection Agency My engineering background is extremely important to the job i do everyday.

3-86年我在普林斯顿大学学习，取得了化学工程的硕士学位,我现在的职务是,美国环境保护署署长,我的工程学背景,对我现在的日常工作十分重要。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so the syllabus we had both was intended to give students background reading of what is justice, you know, more generally.

我们都希望课程设置,能够让学生们做一些阅读，了解,公正更广泛的含义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is generally the general introduction of the brain that I wanted to provide, giving the framework for what I'll be talking about later on throughout the course so that I might later on make reference to neurons or neurotransmitters or the cortex or the left hemisphere and you'll sort of have the background to understand what I'm talking about.

以上这些就是我所要讲的,关于大脑的综述,为我以后要讲的课程,建立起框架,往后我可能会提到神经元,神经递质,大脑皮层,或是大脑左半球,而拥有了背景知识的你们,便能够理解我在讲些什么

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And it is really great because he actually goes through the thought process for you and describes - I need to give you one piece of background.

它非常厉害,因为他已经将思考的过程,为你们过了一遍，并描写,我需要给你们一点背景介绍。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The work of art arises from a background of other works and through association with them.

艺术作品源于对其背景下,其他作品的理解和联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.

这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Study at their views and I think what I'm talking about is really completely different, I have no sympathy for ideas that say we want to get rid of people because their racial background or because in somewhere they are blot on the Aryan folk.

我也研究了他们的观点，然而我觉得,我的学说和纳粹是全然不同的,我并不赞同他们的说法，那就是,我们要消灭一些民族，只因为他们不同的宗教,因为他们在雅利安传说中的,不良形象。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选