The finance and trade ministers were meeting before an APEC summit this weekend that is to include U.S.President Obama on his first trip to Asia as president.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

He was an orphan, he had no family, and he was on his first long voyage at sea.

他是孤儿，没有家人，这是他首次出海远航。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I'm not sure if it's altogether true, but it's a good story, at least, about the famous German philosopher who said that on his first teaching of the Republic, he went through the whole book, ! taught the whole book in one seminar, one semester.

不确定是否都对，但是讲得很好，至少，讲者是著名德国哲学家,他在首堂讲授《理想国》的课中如此提问，然后教完整本巨著，整本巨著在一个学期内教完，一个学期。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Swan did that and more. As he gained experience on his first expeditions, he developed a talent for raising money and hiring accomplished guides who could teach him.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

God vents his fury on all three, and he does so in ascending order: first the snake for his trickery and then the woman, and finally the man.

上帝把愤怒发泄到他们三个身上，以责任大小的顺序：,第一个是，诡计多端的蛇，然后是女人，最后是男人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

On his first European tour as president, Barack Obama is seeking cooperation on both the economic and security front as he holds bilateral talks on the sidelines of the London summit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mr.Obama is on his first trip to Asia as president and will hold the first U.S.summit with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the sidelines of the APEC meetings.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The president that I work for, I always saw him trying to get first to the best policy based on his principles.

我辅佐的这位总统，我总会看见他努力根据自己的原则,规划出最好的政策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Hillary said his first reaction on reaching the summit was a happy feeling that he had "no more steps to cut."

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Nabokov cannot meet his reader on the misty mountain ; because somebody has to agree to publish this book first; it has to exist in the world before that reader can meet it.

然而纳博科夫却不能在这座巅峰上与他的读者相遇,因为在那之前必须有人先同意出版那本书;,在读者遇到那座山峰之前，它必须首先存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

President Obama, at his first major press conference, called on a reporter for a Web-only operation, the Huffington Post.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

And when we go to the title page of A Boy's Will we see that this New England poet publishes his first book, in fact, in London in 1913, there on New Oxford Street.

当我们看到“少年的意志“这个题目时,我们知道他在新英格兰发表这第一本书时，实际上是1913年在新牛津街。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

And this means for Hobbes, first of all, adopting his book as the authoritative teaching on moral and political doctrine in the universities.

鉴于此，霍布斯的首要任务，是把他的著作作为权威的教学方式,在大学里讲授道德和政治学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

If his father resigns himself to Richard's subterfuge, his mother does not, and this is on page 12. He says: I had had my first triumph over my father.

在他击败父亲的同时，母亲以另一种方式教训他，在第十二页，他说：,“遵从父亲所说的让我第一次战胜了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Branson says he plans to bring his son and daughter and his parents with him on the first flight.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

His first treatise, a book called De Cive, or De Cive, depending on how you pronounce it, On the Citizen, was published in 1642, and it was a kind of draft version of Leviathan that was published almost a decade later, again in 1651.

他第一篇论文，叫De，Cive的书，意思就是《论人》,1642年出版，这也算是《利维坦》的草稿版本,而《利维坦》几乎在10年以后，1651年才出版。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says he invited his daughter and fifty of her friends to the studio on the first day of recording.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

George Washington was the first president to place his hand on a Christian Bible when taking the oath of office.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The Washington Nationals announced that Strasburg would make his first major league start against the Pittsburgh Pirates on June eighth.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

That began changing when Jackie Robinson played his first game for New York's Brooklyn Dodgers on April fifteenth,nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

One of Elvis' first new recordings became a huge hit, and led to his many appearances on television.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

He will place his hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

President Obama took the oath of office in January on the Bible that Abraham Lincoln owned and used at his first inauguration.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

On the first day of November, John kissed his mother goodbye and left home with Seth.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

On Monday, for the first time, President Obama offered his own version of a plan to breathe new life into the legislation in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

They said he put the first letters of his names -- O and K -- on each object people gave him to send on the train.

VOA: special.2010.02.28