It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Local people would attack the Jews, or the Jews would try to set up an extra big meeting house for themselves, and it would cause local problems.

当地人攻击犹太人，或者犹太人企图建造超大的礼拜堂，引起各种问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

a lot of people want to maintain the language that their family, either themselves or their parents spoke.

其中很多人，不管是学生自己还是他们的家长，都想要保留自己种族的语言。

旧金山的公立教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He said the people of a state or territory had the right to decide for themselves.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

I'm talking about trying to prevent suffering and prompt for people who don't want to going on living themselves or in the case of babies allowing parents to make that judgment for themselves and their family.

我所做的是为了防止痛苦,或是帮助那些不愿,活下去的人们,或是让上述例子中的孩子的父母,能够作出决定，为他们自己，也为这个家庭。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When they approach me they see only my surroundings,themselves, or figments of their imagination - indeed,everything and anything except me."

VOA: special.2010.09.19

He taught the priority of rights over duties and he argued that the sovereign should serve the lowly interest or the lowly ends of providing peace and security, leaving it to individuals to determine for themselves how best to live their lives.

他主张权力应优先于义务,主张君主应当,尽最大可能缔造和平,以保证人民的安全，主张让给人民自由,让他们决定自己的生活方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If it is compromised, then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticides or fungal infections or bacteria or poor nutrition.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

There may even be people here who distinguished themselves because they starred in Romeo and Juliet. Or, maybe they produced.

这间教室里甚至有人,才华横溢，因为他们,曾在罗密欧与朱丽叶中演出，或者他们是制作人。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

If it is compromised,then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticide products, fungal infections, bacteria or poor nutrition.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

We asked students as we will this year to describe themselves based on gut instinct early on, do you consider yourselves among those less comfortable with computers or just the mere idea of being in this class?

我们给学生提过这样一个要求，以后也还会再提这个要求,那就是凭直觉描述一下自己，你们是否认为自己不擅长电脑,还是只是单纯地想来上这门课？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

You can imagine different products therefore, that are on the market, positioning themselves, or being positioned at different points on the line.

因此你可以想象不同的产品,不同的产品分布在,分布在市场上

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Before,people with special needs were often prevented from physical activity out of concern that they would hurt themselves or be unable to compete.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The third is, and these are not necessarily in any particular order, how they were governed or rather how they governed themselves.

第三是,这三个问题并,没有主次之分,他们是如何被治理的,或者还不如说他们是如何自我治理的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But they do need to be careful not to wound themselves with chainsaws or other pruning tools.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Very few of them would see themselves as a psychoanalytic practitioner or as a Freudian psychologist.

他们中很少有人会把自己,视为精神分析从业者,或是精神分析学派的心理学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Both women lost themselves for a second or two as they quietly praised the little gloved hand.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

That's passing laws that protect people from themselves, seatbelt laws, for example, or motorcycle helmet laws.

即制定保护人们免受自身行为伤害的法律，诸如系安全带，骑摩托车带头盔的法规。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another, but we're all going the same way.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

This move roots Frost's poetry of work in the lives of rural workers, people who have to sustain and entertain themselves, often on their own or alone.

这运动将弗罗斯特的诗歌扎根进,乡村工人的生活中，扎根进必须独自，支撑和娱乐他们自己的人中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says at least ten members of Congress have received threats to themselves or their family members in recent days.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

They get divorces because the spouse complains that my husband or wife gambled away all of our money and that's bad, but they can't stop themselves.

配偶不断抱怨并与他们离婚,我丈夫或妻子输光了所有钱,这糟透了,但赌徒依旧无法自拔

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Climbers have to pull themselves straight up the face of very high rocks or walls.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Cos I ask them to go back to interview their parents or whoever they could find out information about themselves, just like the professor was interviewing people to find out his own background and his family, I want them to go home, and interview their parents or grandparents, or aunts and uncles.

因为我让他们回家去采访,父母或任何他们能搜集到,关于自己信息的人，就像教授采访人们,来发掘自己的背景和家庭，我希望他们回家去，采访他们的父母,或爷爷奶奶，或舅舅舅妈。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And already we have cars that park themselves,collision avoidance systems that the car tells you that you're about to hit something or back into something.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Once it became true that people could raise food or gather food, or produce food for more than just themselves or their families, meant that people were free to do other things.

这些成为现实之后,人类不仅仅能为他们自己或家人,种植,收集或制造食物,也就是说人们可以有空来做别的事情

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

What motivates people to take care of themselves or not take care of themselves.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

The way the Dutch thought about themselves is a little different than the way the French nobility or the Spanish nobles, at least at the higher ranks, thought about themselves as well.

荷兰贵族看待自己的方式,与法国还有西班牙的贵族相比,有点不同,至少高级贵族,对自己是这么看待的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So we now have a real usable criterion to help guide our understanding of whether things happen by themselves of their own accord or not.

所以我们找到了一个非常有用的判据,这个判据能够指导我们,弄明白变化是否,是自发发生的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选