Another best picture nominee about a teenager is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It is underpopulated right now, so if you are still shopping for a humanities subject, this one bears the precious CI-H designation.

现在它们的选课人数比较少，如果你们还需要一门人文学科，这些都是很可贵的沟通密集型课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Critics have also praised a movie called "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

VOA: special.2010.01.01

It makes our life fragile, ephemeral, and as a result of that, more precious.

它让我们的生命脆弱，短暂，因此而更珍贵。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Mo'Nique, who plays the abusive mother of a troubled teenaged girl in "Precious."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Like I said, with the most valuable resource being the president's time, a lot of efficiently running White House time is spent on how to allocate that precious resource.

正如我所说，在白宫里,最宝贵的资源是总统的时间，很多高效运作的时间,都用于决定如何使用,这个宝贵的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He spits in the pan and swirls again, gathering the precious dust in a small depression in the pan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Gold ornaments are a traditional wedding present to brides and a gift of the precious metal during Hindu religious festivals augurs good fortune.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19