It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

These sources preserve different traditions on the number and the nature of the plagues, as well as the principal actors in the drama: God, Moses, Aaron.

这些素材都保留了不同的风格,不同瘟疫的数量，内容,关于三个主角，上帝，摩西，主角的描述也不相同。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And we could not preserve the quality of human life

如果不使用动物做实验，我们就难以保持人类的生活质量，

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Other goals are creating better transportation between the islands and controlling development to preserve the state's natural beauty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Sylvie asked. "No." he answered slowly, "I shoot them and stuff them with special chemicals to preserve them.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

I think they have a moral purpose, which is to preserve the livelihoods of the people of the Province of Quebec.

我认为他们都有一个共同道德目标，就是维持魁北克省,居民的生计。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

As the Lady labors to preserve her virginity, she conjures a menacing but nonetheless sensual image of "airy tongues that syllable men's names."

因为小姐努力地保持她的童贞，她联想到了一个威胁的但感官的画面,飘忽的声音在叫男人的名字“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

After death,the person's body is usually embalmed to preserve it until the funeral is held.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

You could try to figure out how to mesh your scientific view of the mind with these humanist values you might want to preserve.

你可以去试试,看如何将科学心理观,与你所想坚持的人文观念相契合

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Chappaquiddick has a white sand beach at the Cape Poge Wildlife Preserve.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

Although I may occasionally slip, I'm going to try to preserve the word "Soul."

尽管我偶尔会提到,但我仍很少用"灵魂"这个词语

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

You, the intelligentsia of the next generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture.

你们,未来一代的知识分子们,会成为这一西方文化中,灿烂瑰宝的保护者,它确实是西方文化中的灿烂瑰宝

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One way to preserve a memory is with a camera.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Those who profess to love the Union are not so anxious to preserve slavery, while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge in all their actions that its continuance will put an end to this accursed system.

那些宣称热爱联邦的人,并不急着想保存奴隶制,同时那些反战的人,他们以行动昭告天下,战争会持续到这种被人唾骂的制度结束

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Or whether they have just had enough and they don't like the restrictions, and they don't like the cyber attacks, and they're going to move out so as to preserve their name and brand."

VOA: special.2010.01.15

Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free, knows how to preserve its freedom. " The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

So there are two components integral and inseparable in the concept of holiness: initial assignment of holy status by God and establishment of rules to preserve that holy status, and secondly, actualization of that holiness by humans through the observance of the commandments and rules that mark that thing off as holy.

因此在神圣这一概念中，有两个组成部分,一个是上帝最初形成的神圣状态,和为了保持这个神圣状态而建立的规则制度，第二个是，人们通过遵守戒律,而将神圣现实化到生活中,将神圣的事物标记出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He said that is not as a favor to the Palestinians but to preserve Israel as a democratic,Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

In the case of great philosophers, however, better yet to preserve one's physical presence in order to inspire future generations of thinkers.

但对于伟大的哲学家来说，更好的用处是，保存他的原貌,以激励后世历代的思想者。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Diatta says silence to preserve the family's honor often is a family's first reaction when a girl is raped.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Yet, at the same time, Aristotle seems to regard education as the preserve of the few.

但亚里士多德似乎，也同时视教育,是少数人的特权。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Many see Astrix as the ultimate symbol of France and the battle of many French to preserve their culture and way of life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

These qualities, he believes, are the preserve of the few, of a minority capable of sharing in the administration of justice and in the offices of a city.

他相信这些特质，是少数人所特有，他们能共享,正义的运作,与城市中的行政官位。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The couple runs the Indigenous Cultures Institute, a Texas-based nonprofit that works to preserve native traditions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.

他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And they're altruistic because they act to preserve other animals that share the same genes.

说它们利他，是因为它们会保护其他动物,和它们有同样基因的动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选