Puerto Rico,Guam,American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.Minor Outlying Islands and the United States Virgin Islands are territories.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

So, we've got scales that are in the major mode; we've got scales in the minor mode.

我们已经听过大调的调式了,我们已经接触过小调式了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

International adviser Richard Tanson at the University of Virginia says even minor violations stay on a student's permanent immigration record.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

So on their way to conquests in Egypt, or Asia Minor or Mesopotamia, armies would tramp through the land.

当他们前行征服埃及，小亚细亚或美索不达米亚时，他们践踏这片土地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Honeoye is among what are considered the 6 minor Finger Lakes in central and western New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Alexander defeated the Persian Army, which at that time controlled all of Asia Minor, Modern Turkey, and had even threatened to control Greece.

亚历山大大败波斯军队，波斯人当时控制了整个小亚细亚，现代土耳其，甚至扬言要占领希腊。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

We thought that the Taliban will be reduced to a minor irritating factor within 6 months to a year.

我们原以为,在六个月到一年之内塔利班分子会减少成为一个很小的势利。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

People with minor cases of frostbite that affect only the skin may not suffer any permanent damage.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

We have hard evidence of that in Egypt, in Asia Minor, and in the Tigris Euphrates Valley.

而在埃及,小亚细亚,和两河流域却找不到类似的证据

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I was hired in a minor role on the CBS production team for that night's broadcast.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Also, the filing cabinet-- that sounds like a minor thing-- was invented in the 1890s.

还有档案橱柜-,听起来很微不足道-,是在19世纪九十年代发明的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There was what seemed to be a minor problem during the ground tests before launch.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He accepted the award in a wheelchair after a minor operation became major ankle surgery.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The first one is a minor mystery.

第一个是小迷。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Still another is the crash of large asteroids, minor planets that fall to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Jean in Bordeaux, to the train station, to be shipped off to the east; but, he did very well, he became a minor Gaullist official, and he did very well, and they finally caught up with him.

到了车站,然后再被海运到东方,但是他干得很好,他成了一个戴高乐派的小官,他干的也很好,最后他们终于逮着他了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The dog has amazing capability identifying some really really minor amount of explosives."

VOA: special.2011.01.17

Let's talk a little bit about the minor scale.

现在我们来谈谈小调音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Soon,the rate of minor crimes in New York began to drop.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

So, we end up here within an octave-- we end up with twelve equal pitches, but we still use this term a 'seven-note scale' because we have seven notes within the scale of the major scale and seven notes within the scale of the minor scale.

因此,我们在一个八度内,最终得到等量划分的十二个音高,但是我们始终称之为"七音音阶",因为在大调音阶上有七个音符,在小调音阶上也有七个

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Most human cases of the disease are minor.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Because whenever we say,"Asia Minor," we're talking about that section around the Mediterranean that now is called Turkey. But it was called Asia Minor, generally,in the Roman Imperial Period.

因为当我们说到“小亚细亚“,指的便是地中海附近,现在那里叫土耳其，但在罗马帝国时代，它通常被称为小亚细亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

During this time, Dean launched his singing career with Columbia Records and produced a string of minor hits in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

You have the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and then the twelve minor prophets, which in the Hebrew Bible get counted together as one book, because those twelve are very small.

先知书里有三大预言家，以塞亚，耶利米和以西结，后来还有12个小先知，他们因为很小所以，全部被收入了一卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Soccer City is also nearing completion with only minor fixtures and the parking lot pavement remaining to be completed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Here's a good example of a minor from the second movement of Beethoven's Third Symphony.

这有一个小调的好例子,来自贝多芬第三交响乐的第二乐章

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well, let's get back out into the Aegean Sea and we just crossed Asia Minor.

让我们回到爱琴海地区,我们刚刚已经穿过了整个小亚细亚地区

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选