"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

so that's great that a lot of people have enough time to be in something that's not math or science related.

很多人投入了时间，来做与数学或科学无关的事情，这真的太好了。

积极参与俱乐部活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sometimes her pictures made you feel you were looking down from a great height, or up from far below.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Poets called it the Golden Age. A golden age now describes a historical period of great artistic,scientific or economic progress.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

His records include bouncing a ball the fastest for one mile,or 1.6 kilometers, on the Great Wall of China.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

Now for thinking about the application or that putting the content into practice, we put a great deal of emphasis on that.

接下来要考虑应用,即将内容运用于实践，我们非常强调这一点。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Still, there are similarities. Lake Champlain has wildlife and rock formations that are similar to or even the same as the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

They've had a great deal to do with the way the South would go, or parts of the South would go.

他们都与南方的整体形势,或局部形式紧密相关

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The program pays for water research at universities that border either the oceans or the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

He didn't sign into a hotel as Peter the Great or whatever, but he would go in with a name that wasn't his.

他在酒店登记时不会签彼得大帝之类的名字,而是用一个假名来代替

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Paul Katz says they wanted to create a great musical experience for people whether or not they are fans of the "Twilight" movies.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

当我凝视着店铺和街道,我的身躯突然开始熊熊燃烧;,大约持续了二十分钟吧,我的幸福是如此巨大，我受到祝福，也能把祝福施加。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This meant that people in Chicago liked to brag or talk about how great their city was.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

I could say "this must be a great day for you" or "you must be a lot of--under a lot of stress or you must want something."

我会想“你今天一定碰到什么好事了”,或者想”你今天一定压力很大了“,或者”你一定是有事相求了“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

I live in words Backban I walk a great deal, I live in the backban walking into class and home, that's 3 or 4 miles right there.

我生活在文字中,我常常走路，我住在,走来上课,走回家去，我家离这里大概三四英里远。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But around the world,he says, there is a subculture of people who spend a great deal of time trying to set or break records.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

The list of athletes that have endorsed some of the food companies or done marketing for them, so the William sisters, the great tennis players have done fast food companies.

为食品公司做代言或者,为食品公司进行营销的运动员有,威廉姆斯姐妹,著名的网球运动员,她们为快餐公司代言

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Well, sir, every one of them is the record of some great stupidity or other.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

He was a poet, was a Harvard professor, "What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science-- information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance.

他生前是一位诗人，是哈佛的教授，“错的不是科学的重大发现-,有信息永远比无知强，不管是什么样信息和什么样无知。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And a great many farmers still lived in houses, or cabins, made of rough logs.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

For those of you who still do believe in the existence of souls I suppose you could take a great deal in discussions that follows as some form of large conditional or subjunctive if there were no souls then here's what we have to say.

如果你们有人,还是相信灵魂的存在,或者你可以从以下的讨论里,也学到一些东西,把讨论看成有条件性和假定性的,假设没有灵魂,然后就是我们要讨论的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If it's helping the kids write more or communicate more in their first draft,that's great.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

A traditional recipe actually is based on a small set of primitives, and a good chef with, or good cook, I should say, with that set of primitives, can create an unbounded number of great dishes.

一个传统的菜谱实际上是,建立在一小堆的原材料，和一个好厨师，或者好厨子之上的，我要说，根据那堆原材料，可以创造出无数的美味佳肴来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

in such a way that after the rates were raised, they likely couldn't afford to pay the mortgage anymore or they'd be under great stress in trying to do so.

这种“引逗利率，以至于到后来他们没有能力偿还贷款,或者为了还贷给生活造成巨大压力。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选