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

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

or any freelance jobs that I've had in this city which has been nice.

我在这里做兼职工作的收入还是不错的。

生活费偏高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2010.07.26

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

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

VOA: special.2010.05.16

She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

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

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

The sign meant the store or restaurant had been approved by the emperor of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

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

His later and in many ways better novels had been criticized or simply not read."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

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

Hillary took a picture of Norgay. They looked out over the north side into Tibet for any signs that Mallory or Irvine had been there before them.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

We had a senior executive from the group sponsoring the group project, might or might not have been somebody who had sponsored students, but it was somebody who was very interested in the business that that project might be integrated into.

一个负责,监管项目组的高级主管，可能从未,监管过学生，但他一定,会对与该项目,相结合的业务感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The agreement means Madagascar's cash-poor government will receive or 930 million dollars in aid that had been blocked after the March coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

So, if you were someone that was getting it after it had been passed through many people, you wouldn't have as strong or as lengthy a protection as the first individual did.

如果一个疫苗经过很多人的传递,再接种到你身上,你不会获得像第一个接受疫苗的人,那样强效持久的免疫效果

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"Some people have had these for 15 or 20 years and never been able to get one to bloom, so we are really lucky here to have one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

The first item always on that was the overnight casualty report from Iraq and Afghanistan, and I would often come and see that had been circled by the president or that he would be reflecting on that.

上面的第一条永远是,这一晚在伊拉克和阿富汗,士兵的伤亡报告，我来的时候会看到那条消息,被布什总统圈了出来,他看着报告会陷入沉思。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Hill says when police raid a brothel, if they've had the right training, they will be able to tell when a woman is willingly committing a crime or has been forced into prostitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Or perhaps a better way to put it would be they've had death experiences but then have been brought back to life.

或者一种更好的表述方式,是他们经历了死亡体验,但是之后被带回人世

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now of course, the presbyters had seized control in the first place because they disapproved of the tactics of suppression and intervention that had been deployed by the bishops, or the prelates, of the old church.

当然，现在长老首先掌握了控制权,因为他们对旧教会主教和教士的,镇压和干预策略非常反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Those are plays though, and all English narrative poems, including all of Shakespeare's narrative poems, they had all been written in rhyme, either long verse paragraphs of rhymed heroic couplets or in intricately rhymed stanzas.

但那些是戏剧，所有的英语叙事诗，包括所有莎士比亚的叙事诗，都是押韵的，不管是英雄双韵体的大段诗篇,还是精巧押韵的诗节。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选