"We are there to protect the streets of Britain, we are there because al-Qaida poses a threat to us as well as it does to other countries and we are there because if al-Qaida took control again or had an influence in Afghanistan, under a Taliban government, then the people of this government would not be safe,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

The horses had mostly been eaten up or had been commandeered, as I said before, by the army.

在战争中,马在多数情况下,会被用来充饥或是被部队征用

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

planes and boats went missing or had malfunctions with their, like, their machinery,

那里的飞机或船经常失踪，或者出现机械故障，

百慕大出身 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Writing the book was as if I had eyes over my shoulder or voices speaking to my ear.

写这本书就好比自我反省,听自己在辩论一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Cazeau had never spoken angrily to her or called her names or failed to give her everything she wanted.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

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

It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

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

History has provided no evidence that Roscoe Conkling, Chester Arthur, or any other political leader had a part in the shooting.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

And so the guys in Office Space took that money and they-- -- their for loop-- way too fast is-- was the takeaway in that movie, when they freaked out because they had million dollars or something like that overnight.

所以在办公地点里的家伙才能够搞到钱-,然后利滚利--很快的方法-,这就是整个影片的亮点，当他们出于极度兴奋之中,因为他们已经一夜之间,变成百万富翁了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

By 1991, 1992, the company had grown ten times or something like that.

到了1991年，1992年，公司规模扩大了,将近十倍。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Doctor Thompson said sixteen of the mummies had enough heart or blood vessel tissues remaining for the doctors to examine.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Is it all of us or should the beneficiary is our public policy, is those who have already had manages or privileges or multinational corperations or corperation procisely.

是我们所有人吗？,还是公共政策的制定者？,还是仅限于有特权的人？,或者跨国公司或其他公司。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Second, is that people may not remember exactly how much they had or every little thing they had.

第二,人们也许会忘记,到底吃了多少或所吃的每一样东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.16

There is no evidence in Homer that anybody had that kind of wealth or that kind of power.

在《荷马史诗》中没有任何证据表明,谁有这样大的财富和权力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Are you indifferent,or do you care whether you're one of the people who's already had it ? or somebody who hasn't yet had it?

你无所谓还是在意,你是已经做过手术的人,还是尚未做过手术的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the judge questioned the remaining jurors and discovered that eight others had also gone online to research or discuss the case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Gestapo agents intercepted him and demanded he sign a letter saying that at no point had he been threatened or harassed by the Gestapo.

盖世太保们拦住了他,要求他签署一份文件，上面写着,他绝没有受到盖世太保的威胁或骚扰。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The Maya poured the chocolate drink back and forth between two containers so that the liquid had a layer of bubbles,or foam.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

And he had bone fragments of what they thought-- or,at least,ashes of Marie Antoinette that he had with him in his room all the time.

他拿了他们的骨头碎片,或至少是玛丽·安托瓦内特的骨灰,并把这些一直放在他的房间里

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In nineteen-oh-nine, the Hersheys created the Hershey Industrial School for boys who had lost one or both parents.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You had to make--or your employer can do it for you-- they take the money to the post office and the post office would give you stamps.

你自己或者你的老板可以帮你-,将钱交到邮局,然后邮局把邮票给你。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选