There was such a large crowd that a ship's cable, a heavy rope, was stretched across the portico to separate the crowd from Jackson as he took the oath and delivered his inaugural address.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

What makes it unique so that we have a school of engineering at Yale that's separate from science and the humanities?

是什么使得工程学如此独特,以至于耶鲁开设工程学院,并与与科学和人文学院相区别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Some have even argued that there is an intuitive biology, a common-sense biological understanding of the world that's separate from your understanding of people and physics.

有些人甚至认为,大脑中存在着一个直觉生物学模块,这是一种与所具有的人类及物理学知识,并不相同的常识性生物学知识

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said a temporary freeze on settlements - which is set to expire September 25 - is a separate issue from face-to-face talks.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make a language that is autonomous and separate from the world, so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored attention to form.

不同的是这些作家并不想要营造一种,独立的和世界分离的语言，所以你不会看到这方面的炼化技巧,和费劲地塑造。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on legislation identical to the House bill, and a separate provision also mirroring House action to encourage financial divestment from Iran by U.S.companies and pension funds.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

So this Cartesian argument seems to show us that the mind is something separate from, distinct from, not reducible to, not just a way of talking about, my body.

所以这个卡氏论证似乎给我们表明了,心灵是独立于身体,不同于身体,不能称作身体,不是"我身体"的另一种说法

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because of that they're barriers, they separate the inside of the cell from the outside of a cell, and only certain kinds of molecules can pass through a cell membrane.

因为它们的屏障作用,将细胞内外区隔开来,只有特定的,某些分子才能穿过细胞膜

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And his big finding is that you could separate people-- you could separate the question of laughter from the question of a joke or the question of humor.

他有一个重大的发现,你可以区分…,你可以区分什么是笑,什么是玩笑，什么是幽默。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the mere fact that we decide, if we do ultimately decide that there is a soul, something nonphysical, separate and distinct from the body, doesn't guarantee that we survive our physical death.

根据我们仅有的事实去判断,如果我们最终判定灵魂是存在的,它是一种无形的,独立的,与肉体截然不同的东西,但仍不能保证我们会在肉体死亡后活下来

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选