His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You can explain to the secretary that you woke up late and you had a terrible night because you fought with your wife.

你可以向你的秘书解释，你早上起晚了，昨晚你跟太太大吵一架，一整夜都没睡好。

I didn't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He replaced General Ambrose Burnside, when Burnside suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg,Virginia, at the end of eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The reason this isn't a terrible assumption is you could think that getting a higher share of the vote gives you a mandate.

这么假设没什么不妥,因为你可以认为获得更多的票数,意味着你会获得委任机会

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Here, this destruction brings forth a new order, a new form of life that Yeats calls "terrible beauty."

这时，毁灭带来了新秩序，带来了新生活,叶芝称之为，惊人之美“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

This is the story of the empowerment of the poet, his empowerment through his experience of a terrible loss.

这讲述的是诗人的力量，他因一次痛苦的失去而获得的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But she says they believe it would be a terrible mistake not to use these influential tools to contribute to the answers.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

who was refuted by Dr. Johnson who kicked a stone and leaped away in terrible pain saying, "I refute it thus."

约翰逊先生反对理想主义者，他踢开一块石头,跳开到很远，一副痛苦不堪的样子，说，“我这样来反驳“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But General Ulysses Grant had paid a terrible price: more than fifty thousand Union dead and wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He'd had a very royal accident, he'd broken his leg falling off a horse, and he had a terrible limp.

他出了一场只有王室贵族才会出的事故,从马上摔下来,断了一条腿,腿瘸得很厉害

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Pope knew that Jackson's army had taken a terrible beating in the two days of bloody fighting.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

You got an extra hint here in terms of the order, so even if you had just forgotten what I said, sometimes it's not a terrible idea just to put it in the order it's written, that can give you a lot of clues as well.

其实大家还可以发现一个额外的提示，因此即使你忘了我刚才说的，有时候直接按照这个顺序,排列也不失为一个办法，这也可以给你很多提示。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

Schistomiosis, which is a worm that lives in river waters, causes terrible diseases that are still prevalent in many parts of the world.

血吸虫,是一种生存在河水中的蠕虫,可以引起严重疾病,并仍在世界上众多地区广泛流行

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

His family experienced the terrible reality of hatred and discrimination when he was a young boy.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In a fit of gambling, Nala finally gambled his entire kingdom and lost-- it's a terrible story-- and Nala then had to leave the kingdom and his wife.

在赌性的驱使下,那勒最终押上了他的整个王国并输了赌局,这是个很可怕的故事,那勒不得不离开王国和他的妻子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He wrote a short story that perhaps best explains the terrible conditions gold seekers faced.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes hanging down, and dying of thirst.

他做了坏事,被惩罚永远站在水中,头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树,他口渴异常

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But I was no help to myself. There was a moment of terrible silence.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

And nearly not even a half of them graduate high school, which is like, a terrible injustice, a complete injustice.

其中不到一半能高中毕业，这非常不公正，完全的不公正。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But Grant had paid a terrible price: more than fifty thousand dead and wounded.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Still Milgram's work is interesting in many--for many reasons, in large part because he provides an illustration of the perfect situation for getting somebody to do a terrible thing and the perfect situation has certain ingredients.

虽然如此，他的实验还是有很多有趣的地方，很大程度上是因为他解释了,什么情况最有可能,让人做出可怕的行为,这个最有可能的情况包含几个要素。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

They could not imagine where he had been on such a terrible night.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Student: Well, simply because I would argue that Humbert in fact does have a moral vocabulary and tells us how terrible the things he's doing are.

只是因为我会,和Humbert争论关于道德准则的事,还有告诉我们他做的事情有多龌龊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But slavery itself was a terrible wrong the same as murder.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Yeah, I think that mandatory voting is a no-brainer. It's a dumb idea. It's a terrible idea.

我认为强制投票这事不用多考虑，是一个极其愚蠢，极其糟糕的想法。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选