He says that first of all, people don't read as much as they used to and people know his name, but they don't read his novels.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Things can't become holy and can't come into contact with the holy or the sacred if they are not first pure.

事物不可能变得神圣或是与神圣有联系,如果它们连纯洁都算不上。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Or a painting may strike you in a completely different way that you didn't even see in the first time.

或者一幅画以完全不同的方式给你留下另一种印象，而这个你第一次看的时候甚至没有发现。

大都会艺术博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

At first,Andrea Nemethi's face wasn't flat enough for glasses.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

It is an odd and unnatural view and I don't actually expect people to believe it at first.

这是个古怪又反常的观点,我并不奢望大家在一开始,就能接受这个观点

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That doesn't exactly go well at first.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

At first I wasn't sure if I could continue it.

起初我不确定能否继续经营下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

LOU COSTELLO: "What I want to find out." BUD ABBOTT: "I say Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Five years later,he made the first "Model T" automobile.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

When you do Sitting Meditations and Buddhism, this medical school teach, you have your eyes open a reminder, that first of all, you don't fall asleep but also to remind you that you are supposed to be engaging the world as you do it, rather than having your eyes closed and isolating yourself.

当你学习佛教，进行坐禅时，据医学院的方法，你要睁开双眼,提醒自己，首先不要睡着,也是为了提醒自己,冥想时也要参与到这个世界中来，而不是闭上双眼,与外界隔绝。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They were first-year students at North Carolina A&T University.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I am 99 percent sure that if it didn't happen, probably Lech Kaczynski would lose these elections in the first round."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

It's only to say that I can't escape the fact that the very first movement of mind, not the last movement but the first movement of mind, is interpretative.

只能说我不能回避的事实,是我思维的第一反应，不是最后反应而是第一反应，就是解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I just don't get it,'" Weitz stepped in to direct New Moon, replacing Catherine Hardwicke who helmed the first film.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

The first lesson was don't shoot towards the middle of the goal and the second more general lesson was what?

结论一是不要从中路射门,第二个更普遍的结论是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

First it was warning shots, but when the Mavi Marmara wouldn't stop, these warnings turned into an attack.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.

第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Staff Sergeant Derek Brock is used to the waiting. He didn't fly his first real rescue until several years into his career.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

The second millennium really wasn't longer than the first millennium, it's just that I ran out of board!

第二个千年不比第一个千年长，只是黑板不够写了！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Like remembering that I don't like chocolate, first of all, and that I like flowers, but not roses."

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

So realize you don't have to get it right the first time, but you have to listen and watch to what actually those problems are and that is one of the roles your teaching fellows play.

请认识到，并不是要你第一次就把事情搞对，但是你必须听听，看看,问题是到底什么，这也是你们的助教,扮演的一个角色。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

"It's not going to be the old policy as usual, first of all because old policies didn't work,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

How many of you are here for the first time who weren't here for the--okay good.

你们有多少是第一次来上这个课,谁上次课没来,好吧

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"These are only their first Olympics." "And being at home, I don't know how they stood the pressure, because I certainly couldn't.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

It isn't exactly, though, the first poem that Milton wrote.

尽管说这是弥尔顿写的第一首诗不太确切。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And I really don't know what will disappear first, their enriched uranium or their poor government,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

And if your program doesn't work, that should be your first guess.

如果你的程序无法运行的时候，它们可以成为你的第一猜测。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The first I couldn't pick out any melody at all.

第一首完全听不出任何旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选