Sometimes a person fights a battle that has been decided or keeps arguing a question that has been settled.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

So we keep track of the types of questions that come up, unless I said something stupid in class or been confusing, certainly.

所以我们对出现的各种各样的问题保持联系，除非我在课程上说了一些愚蠢的,或令人困惑的话。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

How does this country end up being a Republic, the Third Republic, which has been castigated or been denounced because it seemed to fumble along?

为什么法国最后成为了一个共和国,即第三共和国,而第三共和国因治国无方,饱受职责和抨击

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Some economists say this second round of what is known as quantitative easing, or "QE2," has not been effective.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Red Cross has been unable to bring in food or remove the wounded and sick from the area of fighting.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

There is another aspect of the way in which the New Criticism has been criticized for the last forty or fifty years which needs to be touched on.

新批评主义还在一个方面,受到看批评,在我们研究的过去的四五十年里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Or the writer could show how the subject may be understood better or in a different way than it has been.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

There is no star where the Morning Star had been or where people have claimed it would be or something.

一颗星也没有,无论是晨星曾经出现的地方或,是人们曾断言晨星会出现的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

They've been replaced by aliens or robots "Thank you" by Martians, by CIA agents, by trained actors and actresses.

比如变成了外星人或者机器人,"谢谢",或者变成了火星人,中情局特工,或是训练有素的演员

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

So all of these programs or commands that we've been using thus far for the piece set in class, take what we call command line arguments, they are the zero or more words that follow the program's name.

所有我们一直在课堂上使用的,这些程序或者命令，携带着命令行参数，它们是跟在,程序名的后面的一个或多个单词。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The organization had been established in eighteen sixty-three to offer better treatment for people wounded or captured during wars.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But whenever we've had a reform era there's been a big issue, or two or three or four.

但每当我们有一个改革的时代,都会存在一个,两个,三个或者四个大问题

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A person who is ripped off has had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

That revisions may have been made, so that you might have different sources that have been revised or put together in different ways. Right?

这些修订，以便于你可以对,不同的素材，以不同方式，进行修改或者重组？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At that point, they had not been American League or World Series winners since the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But Professor Rottenberg says those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been helpful.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

I think so. But video phone has been very hard to achieve. It's either been to be expensive, or too crowded, or can we use the internet to finally introduce video phone and this is different from video on-demand.

我也这么认为，但视频电话要成功很困难,它要么很贵，要么很拥堵，或者我们是否可以使用互联网引入视频电话,这与随需视频是不同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Or the British could have been killed by Spanish troops who came up from what is now Florida.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

要明白凡事若要完美,都必须先撕破。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Many of the monuments declared by presidents have been named national parks or given other titles by Congress.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

It's been in fact probably for the last 3 years or so.

已经开展了三年了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A stencil is a thin sheet of metal or plastic out of which a design has been cut.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

Have they been doing more goods than harm or the other way aroud?

它们是好处多于坏处还是相反？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.

今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选