"we were really concerned because we don't have strong global alliances that the other countries or cities have, so I think that might be one of the reasons we got cut,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

It's not at all the same thing as Amsterdam, or London, or any of the other trading cities around.

这与阿姆斯特丹很不一样,或者说跟伦敦,以及跟任何贸易城市都不一样

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Many of you, or some of you have had the good fortune to go to one of Europe's most wonderful cities.

你们中许多人,或一部分人有幸,去过这个欧洲最美妙的城市之一

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

India's current National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

If you travel around in Greek cities throughout the Ancient Mediterranean, you can see where they've carved little game boards into flagstones of different temples or buildings, in Greek cities.

如果你周游古地中海地区的希腊城市，就会发现他们在各类神庙,或建筑的石板上，刻有小型游戏棋盘。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So Fuller proposed using them over cities or over areas that had severe weather.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Just as we cannot be friends with all persons, so the city cannot be friends with all other cities or the state with all other states.

就像我们不能与所有的人做朋友，城市间也不行,国与国之间更不用说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

President Kennedy once said: "I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,too,will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battle or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

VOA: special.2010.10.29

Other cities became major ports or places of deportation, for the domestic slave trade.

另一些城市则成为了国内奴隶贸易的,主要港口和奴隶被驱逐出境的地区

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Foreign Minister Zebari insisted that he doesn't think that the recent surge of violence will disrupt the timetable for U.S.troops to withdraw from major Iraqi cities in June, or for assuming security responsibilities across the country.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It showed the regime, which is very strong in front of innocent people, unarmed people in the streets of Tehran or Tehran University or the streets of Isfahan or other cities, is very weak in front of people who are carrying arms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So how do you feed a city like, for example, Nairobi or many other very large mega-cities with desperately poor people in them where food simply cannot be provided in cities without access to diesel and so on?" Taylor says governments need to start investing in safe and sustainable energy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

I'm not a professor of architecture, but it's obvious this is northern European architecture that you can see in northern France, cities like Arras and other places, or Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes.

我虽然并不是个建筑学教授,但这很明显是典型的北欧建筑,你能在法国北部看到,像阿拉斯之类的地方,或是阿登省的沙勒维尔-梅济耶尔也可以

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Unless the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings, genuinely philosophize, there will be no rest from the ills for the cities, ?! he says, right?

除非让哲学家为王统治,或现时为王者，真诚地开始哲思，不然城市中的苦恼将永不止息，他这么强调，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选