In its 1973 "Roe versus Wade" decision, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that individual states may not ban abortion, but it did not end the political battle over the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

It's a dream of changing the tradition, of having that individual voice added to the tradition, to have it become part of the official heritage and yet at odds with it, casting a different light back.

这是试图改变传统的梦想，试图在传统中,加入自己的声音，让其成为官方遗产的一部分,尽管格格不入，在后面投入一片不一样的光亮。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This bill doesn't take sides. What it says is that it is inappropriate to have a federal rule that says state governments with their own money can't make these decisions or that individual investors can't press their companies to do it,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

I feel like there is a general distinction we made between the right to life that individuals possess and the fact that the government cannot take away a single individual's right to life.

我觉得这两者之间有明显的区别,就是个人所拥有的生命权,以及政府不能夺走,个人生命权的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Sahin says researchers increasingly realize that individual parts of the brain have multiple functions." because here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

So again, the ethical message here is that humans are in control of their destiny and the action of every individual affects and influences the fate of society.

因此这里的道德上的启示就是,人类主宰着自己的命运,每个个体所作的行为,都会影响整个社会的命运。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

It is a product that is passively assimilated by the individual."

它是个人被动接受的“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Mister Karzai disputed that. The Afghan and Pakistani leaders brought big delegations to Washington for individual and joint meetings with American officials.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Also, we need to know how much individual stocks are correlated with rm; we measure that by the regression coefficient.

我们必须清楚,有多少个股与市场总体收益率相关;,我们用回归系数，即β系数来表示。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Having a social connection with a lonely person increased the chances that another individual would feel lonely.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

I'm talking about individual men, extraordinary men and the events that emerge from them and the life they lead.

我说是单独的个人,非凡的人,还有一些因为他们而发生,和发生在他们生命中的事件

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The new generation of American coaches and players is building a tradition of soccer that is as individual as each of their stories.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

They're not interacting at all so that's why the energy is the same as that for two individual atoms, that's what we're dealing with. As we get closer together, we start get lower and lower in energy.

它们之间没有任何相互作用，因此,体系的能量就等于两个分开的原子的能量，这就是我们要处理的，而随着我们的距离越来越近，我们的能量开始变得越来越低。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I knew that this was bigger than any one individual and I would have to do whatever I possibly could to control myself."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And this is important because it means that since we cannot observe, we cannot talk about individual electrons.

这很重要,因为这意味着我们不能观察，不能谈及单个电子。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

She believed that the individual has a right to exist for his or her own self.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

So there is our set of individual processes that's going to constitute our cycle, right.

那么这就是组成这个,循环的一组反应过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That is,they should be testing for individual needs,interests, abilities,and not to compare one student to another.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The best city would necessarily be one that seeks to produce the best or highest type of individual.

最优的城邦必然是,寻求孕育,最优或最高等级个体的所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Alzheimer's affects memory and personality those qualities that make a person an individual.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Well there are methods that get used to track population intake and methods to track individual food intake, and let's talk about each of them.

有的方法,用于追踪总体摄入量,有的方法追踪个体食物摄入量,让我们分开来谈

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That kind of x-ray scanner would have located the package that this individual had on the flight to Detroit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Designing something that works in a particular individual, and designing something that can be used in people all over the world, involve different sorts of accomplishments.

设计在特定个体身上生效的东西,和设计可以在全世界人民身上生效的东西,是完全不同的成果

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"There was simply throughout the law enforcement community never information that would put this individual on a 'no-fly' list,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

So I will argue that change is possible, whether it's individual change, organizational change.

我认为改变是可能的，无论是个人变化，还是组织变革。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So we combined data across nine individual studies, so we have a lot more power than previous studies that looked at this.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

People have names. People have distinct, individual names that mark them as people and once you know somebody's name you are less likely to do bad things to them.

人都有各具个性的名字,这标志他们的人性,一旦你知道某个人的名字,你对他行恶的可能性就会降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That it seemed as though we could have more than one-- call it an individual--more than one body, that had the very same set of memories,beliefs and so forth.

就是说，有可能我们会拥有-,不止一个肉体，而这些肉体拥有相同的记忆及信仰等。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选