That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Yes. Most of our clients are people who have been living in an apartment or in a house for a while

好的。绝大多数委托人都是在公寓或者住所内居住有一段时间了，

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We have kind of a slowing economy either because of that or because the economy kind of slows every once in a while.

我们的经济发展缓慢或者因为,上述原因或者因为我们的经济,偶尔陷入缓慢发展的泥潭。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.

马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I imagined I was really flying across an ocean in an airplane, looking over my notes for a big story while on the way to Constantinople or Khartoum.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

I run out of the house and then usually around 3 o'clock somebody points out, in one case a homeless man, that I have a big glob of shaving cream in my ear or-- because I neglected to actually look in the mirror while I shaved.

然后冲出家门,大概到了下午三点时，会有人跟我说，有一次是一个流浪汉，告诉我，我耳朵上有一团剃须膏-,因为我剃须时忘了,照镜子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"A player who hasn't been playing for very long, I try to keep them next to the section player, or leader as we call it, that has been playing a while so they can always ask questions say, 'Hey,I don't know what that means.'" Matt is now in college, studying music education.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

00 Now I say while i is less than or equal to 100, I write my code, I sleep for a second.

现在我指明当i小于等于，我写下我的代码，我休眠一分钟。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

More than 1,400 foreign troops have died while thousands of Afghan civilians have been killed by insurgents or as a result of military operations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

If you get, you know, a handshake or you know. Every once in a while we get people to do that.

但如果能得到观众的一次握手，我们得到的就是观众。

观众是我的动力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Their mobile phones could save them a trip. So,while it may not be good for plowing a field or harvesting vegetables, the mobile phone is becoming one of a farmer's most valuable tools.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Such a person presumably is not feeling lonely or alienated while he dies.

这种人死去的时候显然没有感到独孤或疏远。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We think that there is a need, while we are treating this matter, to examine the effect, or the impact of whatever decision that will be taken on the peace process in eastern Congo."

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

While there is advice aplenty on how to lose pounds or kilograms, a new study focuses on middle aged and older women who maintain normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index) and do not diet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

by luck or by inside information or by something, while there's sort of a big academic debate.

单纯的用运气或者内幕消息或者其他东西来解释，尽管对此学术界也存在着极大的争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says,in the last six or seven years, the number of jihadi groups has expanded so greatly that it is taking a while to find out who these people are and how many fighters have joined their ranks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

I probably whip out a do while loop very rarely, but very often when programming games or any program that takes user input and has to check that user input and yell at the user if they're messing with you or aren't providing what's expected.

我可能很少用do，while，循环，但常常是,当编制程序游戏或需要用户输入的程序是,需要检查用户的输入并提醒用户,如果他们干扰了你,或没有提供所期望的输入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Conference organizer, Dr.Greg Pappas of the American non-governmental organization,or NGO, called Interaction says that while it is too early to tell whether the current outbreak will turn into a global pandemic, poorer countries in particular need to be prepared for the day when one does hit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28