"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I'm going to read passages quite a bit today, since some of you may not have been able to get the RIS packet in time, it being shopping period.

会怎样，可能有同学没拿到课件,我会多讲些，由于还没步入正轨。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Actually, it's the first time I've seen him since the end of my senior which was about a year ago.

其实，自从大三之后我还是第一次见他，是一年前的事了。

我尊敬的教授 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"We believe since a long time that peace is possible and the vision of two states is the best thing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Jews, for example, since the time of Julius Caesar, who befriended the Jews because they helped him out politically a lot, he gave them certain privileges.

比如犹太人，恺撒本人对犹太人很友好，因为他们对他政治上帮助良多，于是他回以他们某些特权。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Since that time McKibben has written a dozen books that address climate change from many different angles.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

I won't read it since we're running a little short of time.

我就不读了,我们剩的时间不太多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Speaking before the House of Commons, Mr.Brown said since military operations in Iraq have ended, the time had come for a thorough inquiry into the war.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

That's the only time since World War II that we've had a higher level of residential investment.

如此巨额的住宅投资,自二战以来只出现过一次

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The reported advances near the Afghan border come a day after army officials took journalists into the region for the first time since the operation started in mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Second, since we watch films, we don't have a great deal of time for leturing on my part, discussion by you, or the presentations, we'll be talking about its possibilities.

其次，由于我们要看电影，我们就没那么多时间,让我来讲评，让大家来讨论，或者做演讲，我们之后再讨论这些的可能性吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Since the space was small and climate-controlled, staffers allowed only small groups in for a few minutes at a time, which was enough to cure most people's olfactory curiosity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

It's been a while since I've been doing that because I haven't had as much free time as I would have liked.

我已经很久没有播报了。因为我最近都没有太多的空余时间。

广播人员怎么样？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mr.Obama says the U.S.auto industry has added 45,000 jobs since General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, and Chrysler has reported a profit for the first time since the economic crisis began.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

It's been a really long time since I have personally followed basketball.

我个人看篮球真的已经很久了。

现场观看篮球赛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

But, since that time, they've cleaned it up a lot.

但从那以后，他们大力整顿了这个地方。

哥伦布的故事 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So I gave you some numbers I made up actually a long time ago, but since I've been using this game in class, somebody went out and checked.

我列举的数字都是我很久前编出来的,在我需要在课上引用数字的时候就有了,有人还为此做了调查

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"I am convinced, from my conversations with General Stanley McChrystal and I'm grateful to him for the time he gave me there and even on the telephone since he understands the necessity of conducting a smart counterinsurgency in a limited geographic area,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The amount of food available is striking, I mean in the period of time I was--since I was a child there are a lot of changes that have occurred, and I mentioned some of this in the last class-- but when I was a child you didn't have rows and rows of food at a drugstore.

现有粮食的数量是惊人的,当我还是小孩的时候,身边就发生了很多变化,我上节课曾提到过一些,在我小的时候,药店里还没有满货架的食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He wants his right to vote back. "Whatever rights that a normal citizen should have, I believe I should have it as well, since I've served my time and I'm back in society as a paying taxpayer, a community activist,or a person."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

People never thought of insurance as the same as a bank, but since this is relatively recently-- that was only nine years ago--at this time, it means that we are now seeing an expansion of our banking system in the U.S.

人们从来不认为保险和银行是一回事,但是从那法案之后它们就是差不多的了,这只不过是九年前的法案,但是现在,这意味着在美国,银行系统得到了扩张

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选