This image of the twins became the cover of an important book of photography titled "Diane Arbus."

VOA: special.2009.08.09

What was important when reading, starting out with a new book, asking yourself, ? what question is the author trying to answer?

当你阅读时，什么是重要的，当你开始读一本新书，问问你自己，作者试图要解答的问题是什么？

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This is one of the most important aspects of this marvelous book the Housing boom and bust.

这是最重要的部分,在这本神奇的著作中。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

This book became important for the women's rights movement in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

One of the important ideas behind in this book, "Acts of Faith", is that, you say, we should be approaching this with the same kind of urgency and the same kind of resources.

信仰行为》这本书蕴含的一个重要观点，据您所说是，我们应该实现这个目标,这同样十分迫切,我们要利用相同的资源。

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Rand thought "Atlas Shrugged" was the most important book ever written.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

And in perhaps the most important book on Machiavelli ever written, the author of that book declared Machiavelli to be a teacher of evil.

而在一本可能是有史以来,探讨马奇亚维利最重要的大作中，该书作者宣称,马奇亚维利是邪恶教师。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So let's isolate now some of the major themes of Deuteronomy, before we close our study of the Pentateuch. First of all as I've mentioned, the centralization of the cult: that's a key theme in the book of Deuteronomy and it had very important effects.

那么让我们对申命记的几个主题分别讨论，在我们结束摩西五书的学习之前首先就像我们所提到的,那样，信仰的集中化：这是申命记中的,最关键的主题，并且它产生了重大的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So in the book it's a very important scene.

在书中，这是一个非常重要的场景。

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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

There's an appendix to one of the chapters in Jeremy Siegel's book where he says that one of the most important applications of this theory is to measure how successful an investor is.

刚才讲的是,杰里米·西格尔书上的附录,他认为这个理论最重要的应用,就是衡量一个投资者的收益

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These details aren't important, it is described in your book, but the thing that is important to know is that diffusion occurs fast over short distances, but because of the physics of diffusion it occurs slowly over longer distances.

这些具体细节无关轻重,书上都有,重点是你要明白,距离越短扩散越快,由于扩散现象的物理特性,距离越长扩散越慢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The second half of the book turns in somewhat different, certainly equally important directions, but would take us much more time than the time we have allotted to deal with.

巨著的后半篇幅,转向不同，但绝对同等重要的方向，可所需花费的时间,将远超过我们课堂所订的时间。

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