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

VOA: special.2010.03.31

It's this kind of wealth that allow them to fight this long, hard war of independence, which they finally win.

这些所带来的财富,就成了他们为之奋斗的原动力,使得他们在艰苦的独立战争中获得胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.

但为了更形象，看看问题何在，以美国的财富分配状况为例。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Owning such protective armor helped show a ruler's wealth and power.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Last year, the SEC put out a proposal that -it's getting too easy to be an accredited investor -so they put out a proposal that we raise the wealth level to $2.5 million.

去年证交会发布了一项提议,鉴于合格投资者的门槛较低,因此他们提议,把准入门槛提高到250万美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Not only did the gold show off a family's wealth and status, it was portable and easily sold in a crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

So you have trade with the Mediterranean and most especially the eastern Mediterranean, because that's where the older, more sophisticated, more civilized cultures were and that's where wealth was too, compared to what was out in the west.

由此你知道了他们与地中海,特别是地中海东部地区有贸易往来,因为在那里有比西方更古老,更先进,更教化的文明,同时相比西方而言,那里也是富裕之地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

You certainly could make the case that it is not... their wealth is not appropriate to the goodness in their hearts, but that's not really the morally relevant issue.

你当然可以举出例子来。,说他们的财富与他们的良善不相当，但这与道义无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They wanted producers to get a fairer share of the nation's increasing wealth.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Another thing that is interesting is that when you look at the burials of Greeks in the post-Mycenaean period, in the Dark Ages, there's nothing resembling those grand tombs and the wealth that's buried in them for the dead.

还有件很有趣的事,就是在黑暗时代迈锡尼后期,君主的陵墓中没有与其身份相称的陪葬品,没有为来生准备的金银财宝

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Arguments over the details of how to spend East Timor's newfound wealth, continues to slow the pace of economic progress.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

It's your wealth.

这些是你的财产。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion the causes of those with wealth or power or special connections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

But when you remember that the subject at hand is actually in some way sex, then you can begin to associate the Lady's image of this moderate consumption of natural wealth - with some version of -- if this makes sense -- some version of an act of sexual consummation.

但是当你们想起,现在讨论的话题其实是性，然后你们可以将这位女士,关于适量消费自然财富的形象,与一些版本--如果那有意义-,一些版本关于性圆满的行为联系起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Human rights activists said the benefits of Angola's vast oil and diamond wealth is not being equitably distributed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

She doesn't spend her bodily wealth and fulfill the terms of nature's loan And so for Comus, the Lady is hoarding the natural asset of her physical beauty.

她不花费自己的身体财富和不履行自然的贷款条件,对于Comus来说，小姐在囤积自然给她的美貌资产。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Ordinary Venezuelans have mixed feelings about how their nation's oil wealth is managed.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

The vast reddish desert that covers much of Somalia's central Mudug region has always been a source of wealth, as well as calamity, for thousands of pastoral families.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Mr.Gadhafi has ruthlessly crushed any opposition, while claiming his government is run directly by the people a people who have so far seen little of the nation's massive oil wealth.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The militant group, which says it is fighting for a fairer share of the region's oil wealth, crippled daily oil production with series of attacks on oil facilities and personnel since early 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21