BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

If you're looking to have an opportunity for a personal reflective... I read this on a retreat last year.

如果你想进行一下自我反省。。。,我去年在度假时读了这本书。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There are these enormous statues. One of the statues is the President Theodore Roosevelt on a horse, on horseback.

有很多巨大的雕塑。其中一个雕塑是西奥多•罗斯福总统骑在马背上。

美国的博物馆教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Her mouth is set firmly. On December first, nineteen fifty-five, Rosa Parks took a seat on a city bus in Montgomery,Alabama.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

And now you are on a council advising the president on how to move forward obviously in a pluralistic nation.

现在，您在一个委员供职，为总统,就如何明显推动美国成为多元化国家提出建议。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

And in fact, under type checking, different languages sometimes fall on a spectrum from weak to strong typing.

实际上，在类型检查的下面，不同的语言会对应着,从弱到强的一个定型范围。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"There was a chance that we would go on a trip to India and Afghanistan, but apparently we're not doing that.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

But one of them was on a Nashville, Tennessee radio station, on a program at 5:30 p.M. Called "Drive Time."

但在田纳西州那什维尔电台下午五点半的,"驾车时刻"节目中,主持人这么问我

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Mister Stoker is thought to have based his evil Count Dracula character on a ruler who lived in fifteenth century Romania.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

So again this is on a viola so it has a deeper, darker timbre than a violin but here's a scale.

对于中提琴来说,它有着比小提琴更为深沉的音色,现在为你们演奏音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

JOHNNY CASH: I walked through a county courthouse square On a park bench, an old man was sitting there.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

When a brief pulse of electricity is sent to the read/write head it flips on a tiny electromagnet for a fraction of a second.

当一个简单的电脉冲被送到读写头,它会短时间内出现一个小的电磁。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

The kinds of proteins that sit on a cell surface and form adhesion junctions with neighboring cells, that's one class of cells on the surface.

这些蛋白位于细胞表面,和相邻的细胞建立粘附链接,这是细胞的一个种类

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Pygmalion was then taken by George Bernard Shaw, who created a play based on a similar idea which was made into a musical, "My Fair Lady".

然后萧伯纳借助这个词，创作了一部情节类似的戏剧,后来被改编成音乐剧《窈窕淑女》

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Then he put the moon on a gold chain so that Lenore could wear it on her neck.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Whenever you're asked on a problem, "What's the tension on the rope?"

不管什么题目问你,"绳子的张力是多少"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

I live on a shoestring. I have a very small budget and little money to spend on clothes.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

In the coordination game, where the idea is to try and get people to coordinate on a particular equilibria rather than on another equilibria, or worse still, to be uncoordinated entirely.

在协调博弈中,领导力的作用就是促成人们达成,某个特定均衡而不是其他均衡,甚至是完全缺乏协调的混乱状态

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The answer given to Eragon,Everyone dies alone,Eragon, whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, " no one can accompany you into the void?

他获得的答案是，“每个人都孤独而死，无论是战场上的国王,还是家中低贱的贫农，没有人能伴随你进入那个世界？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The sailors landed on a beach and started a cooking fire near some containers of the mineral natron.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

He worked at all sorts of jobs: in factories, at a mill, on a newspaper. He was a schoolteacher, and of course he was a farmer, too, when his grandfather gave him a farm to work, which he did, for ten years in Derry, New Hampshire.

他做过各种工作，在工厂，磨坊，报社，他也当过教师，他是一个农民，他祖父给了他一块地，十年里他都在新汉普夏羊劳作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Mr.Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attack on a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

They might put only 10% down on a house, so you buy a house for $300,000 and you put $30,000 down; that's an investment of $30,000 but it's highly risky because you are very leveraged when you only put 10% down.

他们也许只付了总房价的10%,若你买了30万的房子,但只交了3万,这是一笔3万元投资,但却是高风险的,只支付10%时,你的杠杆率就很高了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

On a passenger cruise ship, fresh air is available on decks and in other places above sea level.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

your boss asks you to take on a project that you really want to take on and you really enjoy

你的老板让你参与一个你特别想加入的项目，你做得很开心，

That's why 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now the word "first" begins to take on a much bigger range of significances than we might at first think.

现在看来，“初/先“一词,比我们起先所想的有更加重大的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选