It is also no accident that this play about a Scottish king was written a few years after James the First became King of England in sixteen-oh-three.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

became a national best-seller. One hundred fifty years after "On the Origin of Species" first appeared, it remains one of the most influential and debated books ever written.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

written by Carl Sandburg. Here is the first part of the poem: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker,Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Plato, who Popper accuses in a passionate, albeit not very well written book, accuses Plato of being the first to establish a kind of totalitarian dictatorship.

柏拉图在，Popper，充满激情，但写得不是很好的书中饱受指责，他指责柏拉图是第一位,建立类似极权独裁专政的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It actually started a couple of years ago with the first film adapted from the wildly popular Twilight romance novels written by Stephanie Meyer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

including the album's debut hit, "Giddy On Up." "It was the first song that I had written for the Shakin' side of the album and it inspired the rest of those Shakin' songs."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18