The groups say villagers crossed Thailand's western border to escape escalating fighting between Burmese forces and Karen rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

That's Western civilization, friends, and the Greeks are at the root of the whole thing.

这就是西方的文明,朋友们,而希腊人恰恰是这一切的源头所在

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In fact this treatise is often described, or maybe even most commonly described, as the Western tradition's greatest argument against censorship.

事实上，这本著作常常被描述为，或是可能广泛地被认为，是英国传统上最伟大的与控制相对立的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"It's because we have the prevailing wind at the moment coming from the north, pulling the material down towards Western Europe that we're seeing the impact on the travel of so many people."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The conversation on human rights and said "You know what, this is really the way you have framed it. A very western concept and it's coming of your enlightenment.

在关于人权的对话中，非西方国家的人们会说,“看吧，这只是你们的想法而已,是西方化的概念,这是在你们的文明背景下产生的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

It's quite spectacular because here in the 1890s we have the apex of the Western classical orchestra, this big, beautiful, powerful instrument.

它之所以雄壮因为在十九世纪九十年代,西方古典管风琴正处于顶峰,这是一种巨大,美丽,有力量的乐器

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It grew into one of the largest community festivals in the western states, complete with the world's largest strawberry shortcake.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Because of Western civilization's emergence as the exemplary civilization, it also presents problems to the whole world.

虽然西方文明的崛起,作为现代文明的模板,但是它也反映出了世界范围内的现存问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When you press the toy guns trigger, the western man kicks the Chinese man in the back.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"I know that's a Western festival for lovers who date or they love each other.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

You wonder why would it be that the whole western half of the U.S. gets only or the western third of the U.S.

你也许会质疑，为什么,美国整个的西部一半只有一个,或者说美国西部的三分之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Their efforts failed. In eighteen ninety-nine, Germany took control of Samoa's large western islands.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

In other words, he's thinking about the development of Western culture.

换句话说，德里达在思考西方文化的发展。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Tyler's political beliefs were strongly opposed to those of the northern and western Whigs.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Miriam's Kitchen operates in Western Presbyterian Church, not far from the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

And the dialogue ends with one of the great moving death scenes in western civilization and as Plato says-- let's get the quote here exactly right-- "Of all those we have known, he was the best and also the wisest and the most upright."

然后对话以一个,西方文明史上最伟大感人的死亡场景结束,用柏拉图的话说,让我们引用的更准确些,在我们所知的所有人中,他是最好,最有智慧,最正直的人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Another issue during Hayes's administration involved a railroad in the western United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

In other places, infectious disease is a much bigger part of their life and a much greater risk of death from infectious diseases and parasitic diseases if you live in places other than the U. S. or Western Europe, for example.

在其他地区,感染性疾病,对当地人们的生活构成了更大威胁,他们死于感染性疾病或者,寄生虫之类疾病风险更高,如果你生活在,美国或欧洲之外的地方的话

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

We celebrate that day like the Valentine's Day in Western culture."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Finally, I think it can be said that it's a poem whose deepest investmentis actually in Milton's mastery over the entire Western tradition of literature.

最后，我要说的是,这是一首弥尔顿对自身对于现代文学传统的,写作技巧苦心经营的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Molycorp is the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth products."

VOA: special.2010.10.15

That made it very beautiful and there's no way in God's earth that we could replicate that to the Western system of musical notation.

那使得它十分美丽,我们却没有任何办法,用西方的乐谱方法,再现这样的音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Lee's army crossed western Maryland and entered Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

There's a real sense, I think, in which Milton wanted to re-create all of Western culture or to re-create all of Western culture in his own image.

我认为，米尔顿想要完全重建西方文化,或者说是按他自身的形象重建西方文化,是有切实意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a poem deeply invested, in fact, in the entire Western tradition of poetry in general.

实际上，这是一首植根于，西方诗歌传统的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选