But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

How can I talk about or act in my life, ? pursuing my happiness isn't that selfish?

我谈论经营自己的生活，追求自己的快乐，这怎么不是自私？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We have the capacity to think morally, we have the capacity to act morally, and to be altruistic or benevolent.

我们能够以道德的方式思考，我们也能够做有道德的事，我们可以无私奉献，可以乐善好施。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Get your act together." Or,if the employer is calmer, he may say, "Let us get our act together."

VOA: special.2010.07.25

So all signs of a cosmic battle, or some primordial act of violence between the forces of chaos And evil and the forces of cosmos and good are eliminated.

因此所有宇宙间战争的标志，或者原始的暴行,在混乱邪恶与宇庙美好力量之间的冲突都被消泯。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Shin changed the human forms on every trophy so that each is doing an everyday act like cleaning, driving or carrying shopping bags.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Sometimes, many of us felt, that not just consequences but also the intrinsic quality or character of the act matters morally.

有时，我们中许多人认为行为的后果固然重要,但行为的道德本质或是特性，也同样重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commit an act of war."

VOA: special.2010.01.31

Why should I act in such a way if I have no expectation or reasonable expectation that those around me will reciprocate?

如果我对别人的报答,没有期望或合理的期望,我为什么要这样做？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Wilson wasted no time. He immediately called a special session of Congress to act on Democratic campaign promises to reduce import taxes,or tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

Because just the act of explaining it to him or her has helped me understand it.

然后再把它们送走,因为给它们解释的这个过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He would leave the fort on April fifteenth if the Confederates made no hostile act against Fort Sumter or against the United States flag.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As Malcolm Cowley shows, all of Faulkner's people, black or white,act in a similar way.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

So, they said, after this Act every bank has to choose one or the other.

所以根据他们说的，至此之后每个银行,都必须选择自己的经营方向。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Plagiarism is the act of representing another person's words or ideas as your own.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And deception defined broadly is simply to act or be in some way that fools others into believing or thinking or responding to something that's false.

而广义上的欺骗是以愚弄的方式,使他人相信虚假之事,认为虚假之事是真实的,或是使他人对虚假之事做出反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This amendment,and the Volstead Act, made it unlawful to make,sell or transport liquor.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

The right thing to do individually or collectively is to maximize, act in a way that maximizes the overall level of happiness.

于公于私，最正确的选择都该是,即为全方位地最大化地提升幸福。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Brown knew he must act soon or his young men would begin leaving.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Also, it's only after their defiance of God's command that Adam and Eve first become aware of, and ashamed by, their nakedness, putting the sort of sexual awakening after the act of disobedience rather than at the same time or prior to.

同时，在亚当夏娃，违背了上帝的命令后,第一次为他们的赤身裸体，感到羞愧，他们的性觉醒，产生于违背上帝的意愿之后,而不是在他们被创造之初。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You should act by calling for help, or sending someone else.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

When we act we seek to preserve or to change.

当我们开始行动，即是为寻求保守或改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Since I have not been informed that South Carolina declared war on the United States, I can only believe that this hostile act was done without your knowledge or permission.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It's not separated or marked off for special kind of treatment because it's holy. For a common object to become holy, you need a special act of dedication to God, to God or God's realm or God's service.

不会因为物体是神圣的而有什么区别对待,对于一个普通的事物来说，想要变得神圣，就必须对上帝做出一些牺牲，受到上帝的管辖，为上帝服务。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Men did not see his act as foolish or overly-dramatic.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

According to Ferdowsian, the Great Ape Protection Act,or GAPA, "would ban all invasive and harmful research on chimpanzees in American laboratories."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

I don't think that's a very good reason because you choose to- either way you have to choose who dies because you either choose to turn and kill the person, which is an act of conscious thought to turn, or you choose to push the fat man over which is also an active, conscious action.

我认为这不是一个很好的理由,因为不论哪种情况，你都得选择让谁死,或者你是选择转弯撞死一名工人，这种转弯就是种有意识的行为，或者你是选择把胖子推下去,这同样是一种主动的，有意识的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Or, it could act like a square root machine.

或者，它可以表现的像个开平方根的机器。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选