During her visit to Moscow in October, U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States and Russia agree on the importance of pursuing diplomacy toward Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Well, well and good, but at the same time, if that's the case, and if there is this extraordinary emphasis on the importance of the expression of genius, you can see what's beginning to happen.

很好，但与此同时，如果过于重视那些,天才作家的表达，你可以看到它所引起的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The only thing that matters is the salvation of the incorporeal, the bodiless soul, but Milton is so unorthodox, or at least heterodox, in his insistence on the importance of the body in this poem.

基督教强调只有非物质的非肉体的心灵的救赎，才是重要的，但弥尔顿是如此异端，至少不正统，在诗中一直强调肉体的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The writers expressed concern that the proposed changes would place too much importance on the number of hours worked.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

The writers on the syllabus consistently try to imagine a way to make those claims, make those claims for the primacy and the importance of what they do.

大纲里的作家一直在尝试,设想出一种方法来提出要求，把他们写的书放在首要地位,使他们的要求得到重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On Tuesday the president gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Now next time, in my lecture on introducing you to Judaism, I'll talk about the importance of at least two of these empires, because they're very important for the history of Palestine and Israel at this time.

下次课讲犹太教时，我会讲到至少其中两个帝国的重要性，因为他们对当时,巴勒斯坦及以色列影响非常大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Green Summer program provided young people with hands-on experience and education on issues of environmental importance.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

I talked about the importance of spending time on our relationships, about taking time aside and simplifying and so on and so on.

我谈到了花时间经营爱情的重要性，谈到了休息，简化，等等。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Secretary Gates has indicated that casualties weigh heavily on him, along with the strategic importance of these decisions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Now here--here is the importance of assessing dietary behavior, and you guys are doing it on yourselves.

评估饮食行为的重点在于,你们要针对自己进行评估

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"And we've demonstrated the importance of American leadership - and American partnership - on behalf of our own security, and the world's."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

That chapter goes on to talk about ; the importance of engaging diversity; and God telling Adam that we live in a world ; with different beings, different parts, and different pieces; and Adam having the unique gift to be able to name those differences.

那章接着谈论了,融合差异的重要性;,上帝告诉亚当我们居住在一个,由不同的人，不同的部分组成的世界;,亚当拥有独特的天赋能够,为那些不同命名。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said the foreign ministers also discussed the importance of expanding trade and making it more sustainable and inclusive.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty, the main point of which was the importance of defending individual rights and minority rights, and in 1861, toward the end of his life, he wrote the book we read as part of this course, "Utilitarianism."

859年穆勒写了本关于自由的名著，书里的主要观点是,争取个体和少数群体权利的重要性，1861年，在晚年时期，他写了《功利主义》，这也属于本课的阅读资料“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"I believe on the state side there has been underfunding and under-recognition of the importance and need for funding public defense for the indigent for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Secretary Clinton said the U.S and Russia will continue to have disagreements, but added the treaty is an example of deep and substantive cooperation on a matter of vital importance.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Now I am mentioning these dates here because the dates on which Milton wrote and published his poems, the temporal sequence of these publications, have a peculiar and particular importance for the poet.

我为什么要在这里提到这些日期,因为创作和出版诗的日期，和当时的顺序，对一个诗人有特殊的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The prime minister, who came from a rural area and went on to do a doctorate in economics at Cambridge, recalled his own story to emphasize the importance of putting all children in school.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Security Council president condemned acts for the month of September, U.S.Ambassador Susan Rice, read a statement from the council, in which it stressed the importance of respecting international law by preserving the inviolability of the embassy and the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25