Robert Fulton would say for the rest of his life that he had no idea why he said such a thing.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

In fact, he claims, he was so far from such debauchery that he had devoted his entire early life to the ideal of virginity.

他声称，事实上他离放荡还差远了,因为他年轻时完全沉浸于贞操理想中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

but in that time, I'm hoping to set up my life such that one day, in the long term,

但长期以来，我希望有一天能够掌握自己的生活，

事业和人生都重要 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Life expectancy rates climbed, because doctors and scientists developed effective ways to prevent or treat diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid,diphtheria,and influenza.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

Such individuals will subordinate their own desires and pleasures to the group, and live a life by a strict code of honor.

这种个体,会将自己的欲望与愉悦,放到团体之后，过着一种严格遵守荣誉规范的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Such a lens would permit me to see life in the smallest parts of its development.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Why does an act of consent make such a moral difference, that an act that would be wrong taking a life without consent, is morally permissible with consent?

为什么征得了同意，就能在道德上如此不同呢，没有征得同意就杀人，在道德上是不允许的，征得同意就是允许的吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The act said the purpose was to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

VOA: special.2009.09.28

They have to pay--the premium has to cover the costs, so it was tough to get someone to buy life insurance even though they really needed it--it was such a good idea for them.

因为保费必须要超过保险公司的成本,因此,尽管寿险很好,人们也需要它,但是真正要说服人们购买,却是很困难的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

U.N.spokesman Gordon Weiss tells VOA News the Sri Lankan government is also not doing enough to avert such tragic losses of civilian life.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That amount of time is starting to come down. We were also quite surprised when we first started looking at vaccines that they were such a life-saving advance.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.

艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说，哦，我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣，因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事，他会很震惊。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Soldiers who focus on the military's education benefits she says, train in jobs that translate to civilian life - such as technology or medicine rather than rifles or sharp shooting.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

It is found that the most effective way of dealing with this phenomenon was actually to cultivate the positive,to cultivate personal strengths, to cultivate and identify one's passions, ? to ask a question such as "what is meaningful to me in my life?

事实证明，处理这种现象,最有效的方法是,培养积极性和个人优点，培育激情，提出这种问题“我人生中什么是有意义的？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"We really wanted to go out emotionally and have people walk away with the feeling maybe there is no such thing as 'happily ever after,' but even with all of its flaws, life is really great."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Last time, I invited you to think about life on the experience machine, where the scientists are busy stimulating your brain in such a way as to give you an exact replica, from the insides of what it would be like having identical experiences to the ones you would have if you were really doing-- well, whatever it is that's worth doing.

上节课，我要你们思考,体验机里的生活，科学家们用它刺激你的大脑,给你一份完美的体验复制品，从体验相同的经历,到体验在现实生活中-,值得做的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He made a few blatant public relations gaffes, such as saying he would like to get his life back, after 11 people had been killed when the drilling rig exploded in April and oil continued to gush into the Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

We tend to underestimate the importance of Freudian thought in everyday life because he's transformed our world view to such an extent that it's difficult for us to remember if there's any other way to think about it.

我们常常低估了精神分析理论,在日常生活中的重要性,因为他改变了我们的世界观,让我们以一种自己难以想到的方式,来看待世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选