But he believed that the people of a territory had the right to make their own decision to accept or reject slavery.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

If you are known or believed to be willing to fight, you are in a state of war.

如果别人认为你很想去打斗，你就陷入了战争状态。

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Could Milton actually have believed that poetic success was in some way contingent on what it is that you do, or what it is you don't do, with your body?

他真的信,诗的成功是某种程度上取决于你对你的身体，做了什么或没做什么吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

She believed that the individual has a right to exist for his or her own self.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

We don't know whether this was because he didn't want to take the chance or because he believed in categorical moral principles.

不知道他是因为不愿意冒这个险呢,还是因为他信奉绝对主义道德原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She would say this if she believed someone had done something mean, dishonest or just stupid.

VOA: special.2011.04.24

What second millennium Hebrews and early first millennium Israelites or Judeans, Judahites, actually believed or did is not always retrievable, in fact probably not retrievable, to us. We have some clues.

西元前2000年的希伯来人和前1000年早期的以色列人,或者说犹太人，犹太民族所信仰的和所做的，不是每次，都能复原，事实上可能无法复原，我们掌握了一些线索。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Baby care experts had believed that babies must be fed at the same times every day or they would grow up to be demanding children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Now,if the Michigan guy hadn't been there, what I would have done, if I believed in the personality theory or when I believe in the personality theory, is say Oh look,Napoleon--reincarnated in New York.

如果密西根家伙不曾出现在那里，那么我就会，假如我相信人格理论的话，我便会说，看，拿破仑在纽约转生了。

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Seven of them died of the disease or disappeared and were believed to have died.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Well, again, it used to be believed that the brain is wired up like a computer, like a PC or a Mac or something like that, but we know this can't be true.

人们曾经以为大脑是像计算机那样,组装起来的,像台个人电脑或苹果电脑,但我们知道这种观点是不对的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Suspects can also be removed from the list if the federal case against them is dismissed or if they are no longer believed to meet the "Top Ten" requirements.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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Several suspects have been detained or gunned down in raids in recent weeks, but police say they will continue to pursue other militants believed to be involved in terrorist activities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

It's capable of moving people to action, or so Milton may have believed.

做一些能够让人们行动起来，或相信弥尔顿的实事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

So, what you might say is a Socratic citizen to do, he will either be accused of being ironic and not be believed or he will simply be disbelieved if he attempts to defend himself on rational or philosophical grounds.

你可能会说，一位苏格拉底时代公民被指控的原因,可能是嘲讽和不被相信,或根本就不被信任,如果他试图,从理性或达观的立场来捍卫自己。

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