Melanie Walker brought home another gold for Jamaica, setting a championship record of 52.42 seconds in the women's 400-meters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

So that's the geographical setting for what we are about to read in the Book of Joshua.

这就是它的地理位置,我们将在《约书亚书》中读到的故事就发生在这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It was the setting for almost all of his novels, almost all of his poetry.

这一视角也是他写小说和诗歌的视角。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Woods spoke for more than 13 minutes in a tightly controlled setting that was covered live by the major television networks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The business council says it is also time for start work on setting a timeline for establishing an APEC free trade agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Some of you might have seen, we had been setting up a number of ways for us to reach out to our customers.

有人可能已经注意到了，我们开通了很多渠道,来与客户接触。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Besides the Fed's primary responsibility for setting U.S.monetary policy, it currently oversees about 6,000 large and small banks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

For instance, when we deal with one another in a legal and a moral setting, we think in terms of free will and responsibility.

举个例子,当我们在一套法律和道德系统中,与其他人相处时,我们会从自由意志和责任的角度进行思考

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says the agencies are supplying water, distributing farming supplies, setting up cooperatives and implementing food-for-work projects.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

So for a literal definition of what strategic means: it's a setting where the outcomes that affect you depend on actions, not just on your own actions, but on actions of others.

策略形势书面定义是,行为影响结果,然而结果不仅,取决于你的行为 还取决于其他人的行为

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Because we asked, and other parties asked, three years ago three and a half years ago for the setting up of the Iraq Inquiry."

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

I'll let you just grok it but you can see it's basically doing what I did over there. Setting up two indices for the two sub-list,it's just walking down, finding the smallest element, putting it into a new list. When it gets to the end of one of the lists, it skips to the next part, and only one of these two pieces will get called because only one of them is going to have things leftovers.

你们可以大体的浏览一下,但是它们基本就是我在那里所做的事情,为两个子列表设置了两个指针,指针顺着列表走下去，找到最小的元素,把它放入到一个新的列表中去,当它走到一个列表的尾部时,它会跳到下部分去,两部分中只有一个会被执行,因为只有一个会有元素剩余。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

People aren't talking about setting up Moon bases and throwing rocks at Earth, for example."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Sunday that his government will work for a positive outcome at next month's crucial United Nations summit on setting targets for carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Freud lives on both in a clinical setting and in the university but Freud at Yale, for instance, is much more likely to be found in the history department or the literature department than in the psychology department.

虽然在临床和大学中,都会有涉及到弗洛伊德的理论,但是，以耶鲁为例，你更可能在历史系或是文学系,听到弗洛伊德的理论,而不是在心理学系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A document setting out rules for democratic succession was approved almost three years ago, but has been ratified by only three of the 15 countries needed to take effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

If these are the conditions for contact, to what extent are they met in the university setting between, say blacks and whites, people from the American South versus people from the American North, people from other countries versus people from the United States?

如果大学环境里有这些接触的条件，有多少是属于促成因素的？,例如在黑人和白人之间，来自美国南方的人,和来自美国北方的人之间，外国的学生,和美国的学生之间？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and the current talks are aimed at setting in place new legally binding emissions targets for the decade to come.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"But what has not yet happened is setting up the complicated vehicles inside the institution to convert that gold and the proceeds from selling it into money for low income countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Political analysts say Republican victories in both Virginia and New Jersey would encourage party activists and energize Obama opponents, setting up a major battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We have to make sure that the compound will be sufficiently efficacious to be used in the clinical setting, it has to be safe, and again we can make the drug sufficiently cheaply that it will be appropriate for the use in the clinical setting."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

It also comes in the wake of the Pope's visit, which I think is also setting the groundwork for sort of a cultural dialogue, an attempt to have a new start at the level of symbols and culture and try and erase some of the hostility of the last 8 or 9 years,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14