She points out that many foreign graduates ask to stay for what is called optional practical training.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He dismisses his brother's entirely practical argument, because for him chastity is a lot more than a simple exercise of sexual abstinence.

他推翻了他弟弟所有实际的论点，因为对他来说,贞节不仅仅是简单的禁止性欲。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These things that we discovered were meant for a practical usage in ways that I will tell you about in a little while.

而这些我们发现的东西,在某些方面是有实际用途的,稍后我会提到

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And I've been hearing a lot about young people who -- you know, they're posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they go apply for a job and somebody has done a search and, so,that's some practical political advice for you right there."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

The gentleman may lack the speculative intelligence of a Socrates but he will possess that quality of practical rationality of practical judgment necessary for the administration of affairs.

绅士可能缺少,像苏格拉底般的思索智慧,但他却拥有,实际理性的本质,拥有行政事务所需的,实际判断力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The project was a conceived as a practical laboratory for cooperation between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

And the challenge then is, for us, if our goal is to become practical idealists is to understand what it is that brings about change and then do it.

困难在于，如果我们想成为实践理想主义者,就要理解是什么带来改变然后去做。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Treasury Secretary Geithner agreed that the bonuses are unconscionable, but said there was no practical way for him to block them.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

There are lots of other writers we could include, including those two that I named, that would equally illustrate some of the threads that I've got on the syllabus now, but these are the ones for various practical and more substantive reasons that I have chosen.

我们其实还可以讲很多其他作家，包括刚才提到的那两位,他们也能阐述我大纲里的一些主题思想，但是因为各种实用并且更为实在的原因的存在,我才选了这些作家的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the environmental waste expert concedes that for the time being, landfills are the only practical option.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

But the keys to study this exception and for practical idea is to come together and to say "what is working? Let's study the best; " let's study what works and then apply it."

但研究这个例外的关键是,大家坐在一切,说“什么是可行的？我们研究最好的吧;,研究可行的事，将它应用到生活中“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"In fact what has happened over the last generation is that Islam has been hijacked for all practical purposes by the most extreme elements in the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Speaking at a Moscow news conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said the first meeting between U.S.President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart,Dmitri Medvedev, set the basis for practical cooperation between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

EU Finance Commissioner Olli Rehn made the call after a first round of talks with Greek officials amid growing market expectations of a trade-off between new deficit cutting steps and practical EU support for Greek borrowing.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

"If this implies any practical steps taken against Israel, it will make it impossible for any Israeli government to take risks for the sake of peace and that will be detrimental for the peace process,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16