"This is big.This is personal. This is one of the most important debates of our lifetime,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Vacillation." The poem was written following a series of poems called the "Crazy Jane" poems, written as a kind of summary of them, a kind of resolution of the debates that go on in them.

踌躇一诗写于系列诗,疯狂的珍妮之后，作为对这一系列诗的总结，作为对其中的争论的解决方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And one of the things I mentioned a couple of times are some of the debates that occur on the question of dating.

一件我多次提到的事情是,一些关于时间考证的辩论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The problem was, of course, Nat Turner's Insurrection; it had just occurred in October of 1831 and they held these debates in the wake of it.

问题是,在1831年爆发了,纳特特纳的起义,他们把这些议题推迟到起义之后

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"I think that there will be a refocusing of how the UK can operate within Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also there will be some serious questions about whether or not the UK can maintain this expeditionary role" TV debates, a first in British politics, have thrust the outsider Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats into the role of kingmaker in a close election.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

In the debates ranging for the last thirty years or so over the value of traditional pedagogy and over the value of canonical reading lists, Milton is always cited, invariably cited, as the canon's most stalwart representative of oppressive religious and social values.

过去30多年来，在传统教育学和权威必读书目,对价值的争辩中，米尔顿总是，无一例外的，被看做是英国文学经典中,宣扬压迫性的宗教社会价值的最坚定代表。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Much more on that 1857 panic, as they were called then, a little later in the course, because it's absolutely pertinent to what happened in the great political debates of the late 1850s.

更多的是1857年恐慌,正如他们所说的,稍后会讲到,因为这非常贴切,19世纪50年代晚期发生的著名政治争论

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选