The corals are now listed as threatened under America's Endangered Species Act.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

He sees, specifically, the passion of the revolutionary's act and he finds it beautiful.

特别是，他看见了，改革的激情,他看见了激情之美。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He's going to act in it. And my other roommate is named Christine Kwon.

他会参加演出。另外一个室友叫克里斯汀·权。

有趣的室友们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"But overall,it's good. Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are being more accepted.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

U.S.and Afghan officials say those same areas act as Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens for cross-border attacks, making them a crucial part of the Afghan insurgency's resiliency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Patnelli says Cluff's agreement with the government is in line ith Sierra Leone's new Mines and Minerals Act that requires companies to invest one tenth of annual revenue in local communities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Oh,well,we're in Laodicea. Let's say 'To the Laodiceans,' and we can act like Paul sent it just to us."

比如在老底嘉的人填上“致老底嘉教会“,它就成了保罗寄给老底嘉都会的信“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I said, "Here's a guythat's got his act together.

VOA: standard.other

So, let's look, Act II Scene II. You remember this, Romeo: "but soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

让我们一起看，第二幕第二场，你们记得吧，罗密欧说，但是，温和的，那边窗子里,亮起来的是什么光，那就是东方，朱丽叶就是太阳“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Although there's near universal agreement that the Americans with Disabilities Act was a huge step forward, many Americans say that much work remains to be done to ensure the equality of access that all people deserve.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

And deception defined broadly is simply to act or be in some way that fools others into believing or thinking or responding to something that's false.

而广义上的欺骗是以愚弄的方式,使他人相信虚假之事,认为虚假之事是真实的,或是使他人对虚假之事做出反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Act for God if you want to, be God's actress if you want to.

如果你愿意，为上帝表演，做上帝的演员。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As Malcolm Cowley shows, all of Faulkner's people, black or white,act in a similar way.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Reagan was a big believer in free markets; we had a law that actually passed, it's called the Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980--that's actually before Reagan.

里根是自由市场的崇信者,那时其实通过了一项法律,称为,1980年存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,该方案是在里根执政之前通过的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But he says they also act as representations of a country's wealth and geopolitical power.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

I got about a one-minute warm-up here, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got Lynda Paul who's like a Vegas show act. Okay?

这个热场活动很短,大概只有一分钟,由琳达·保罗进行拉斯维加斯那样的演出

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Plagiarism is the act of representing another person's words or ideas as your own.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

But here I have the opportunities to someone something, and then you see them act upon it in a month's later, a year's later.

但我能有机会去帮助别人，并看到他们能因此在一个月后,甚至一年后，收到效果，作出改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Lead singer Vincent Furnier's snake was often part of the stage act.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Other drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease act like dopamine.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

I'm wondering if Dudley and Steven had asked for Richard Parker's consent in you know, dying, if that would exonerate them from an act of murder and if so, is that still morally justifiable?

我想知道达德利和斯蒂芬斯,是否征得过派克的同意，取他的性命，是否那样就能赦免他们的谋杀罪名,是否这样，道德上就是正当的？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

An act of Congress requires a cut-off of most U.S.aid to countries where elected governments are unseated by the military.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

On the other hand,when he, even Oedipus himself, when he understands and he relents,and in a sense he apologizes for what he's done,but more importantly,he ceases,of course, to be powerful and to act in that way,wisdom comes to him.

另一方面,即便是俄狄浦斯自己,当他对他的所作所为开始反思,悔过,更为重要的是他选择了让步,他变得强大,智慧再次降临到他的头上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选