Pay was poor in Britain, and these skilled workers could get much more money in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

It's not the best form of food in that they're actually very poor in protein, and unfortunately very, very rich in cyanide.

但木薯的根并不是最好的食物,因为它的蛋白质含量很少，而更不幸的是，它的氰化物含量非常，非常高。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So Leviticus supports outright charity for the poor in the form of gleanings. Kind of a welfare system. Deuteronomy has more of a workfare system in mind; they actually never mention the poor.

所以，《利未记》支持以拾遗的方式直接对穷人,进行施舍，有几分像福利制度，《申命记》考虑更多的,则是工作福利制度，事实上它从未提及穷人。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

But there is the opposite possibility, in the Beatitudes we read, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."

但是也有另一种可能性，《八福词》，里圣人讲，“虚心的人有福“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"Traditional environmental risks are those that face largely the poor in China, risks like drinking water contaminated with infectious organisms or highly polluted indoor air from people burning wood or other dirty fuels inside homes without chimneys."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

How can we prevent murderous schoolyard violence in children who have access to weapons,poor parental supervision, and a mean streak?"

如何防止校园暴力,这些暴力事件通常是由掌握武器，缺乏父母监管，或受到教唆的孩子引起的“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It is a collection of linked short stories about the lives of very rich and very poor people in Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Helmets, roll bars, caution flags... I like the fresh air... and looking at the poor people in the infield.

头盔，保险杠，警示旗。,我喜欢新鲜空气。,还喜欢看场上的倒霉蛋们。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

You were guilty because you were left in Paris, because you were too poor to get out.

你的罪过在于你被抛弃在巴黎,在于你一贫如洗,无力逃离

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

It is a condition for Hobbes of maximum insecurity where in his famous formula " "life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

对霍布斯来说，这是一种使安全感最大化的状态,这种安全感在他有名的公式中被表述,“生命是孤独的，贫穷的，肮脏的，残忍的，短暂的“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says projects designed to increase interpersonal trust can have a major effect in poor countries with undependable legal systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Well...inequalities are growing in India and the poor of course benefit when there is high growth becasue their incomes rise but inequalities also rise.

嗯，印度的不平等现象还在加剧,当经济高速增长时,穷人也能受益,因为他们的收入增长了,但同时分配不公的现象也增多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

But of course this is a poor, black child growing up in the South, and his expectations, what his mind can imagine, is always going to be greater than what the world can deliver.

但要记得，这个黑人穷孩子是在南方长大的，他的期待，他想象的东西，总好过现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

It's a big change in some of these very poor villages to get a cow.

奶牛对这些赤贫的村庄来说可是生财之道

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself are silent.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

It's dark. The other, dark, in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad; this is a hard time, a poor time, a wretched time, a miserable time.

因此称之为黑暗,另一个理由是,黑暗从悲观的角度来说就是不好的,坏的,这是一个艰难的时代,一个穷苦的时代,一个不幸的时代,一个悲惨的时代

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It says the world also needs to develop better farming methods to feed growing populations in poor countries.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Two-thirds of the white South remained in those classes we've come to call the yeoman farmers, the poor whites, or the sand hill farmers, as they were sometimes called.

三分之二的白人家庭属于这个阶级,我们称他们是约曼农民,贫穷的白人,或者没有地的农民

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations have promised twenty billion dollars to increase food security in poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Think of these poor French horn players in the orchestra.

想象一下管弦乐团中可怜的圆号手

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

There he saw life at its worst, especially in a very poor part of New York which was known as Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Clemente's work helping poor people, especially those in Puerto Rico, became a very important part of his life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The only cities in Europe that were comparable-- and they were smaller--were Naples, an extraordinarily poor city, and Constantinople, Istanbul, and, of course, in Japan, Edo, which would become known as Tokyo.

欧洲唯一可以与之匹敌的,就是稍小的那不勒斯,那是个非常穷的城市,另外还有君士坦丁堡即伊斯坦布尔,当然还有日本的江户,即之后的东京

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And so in Exodus 23, you're going to have a law that tells you not to oppress a stranger because you were a stranger. It tells you to not plow your land in the Sabbath year immediately following that to let the poor and needy eat from it. It tells you to observe the Sabbath day rest.

在《出埃及记》第23章，你会看到有法令告诫你不要,欺压外人，因为你自己也是外人，也有法令告诫你,在安息日不要劳作，随后将收获的庄稼赠给穷苦之人,和有需要的人吃，告诫你守安息日。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选