As we approached the mountain, the hills and gulleys bore the appearance of having been created by some vast, fierce torrent rushing around the base of the peak, and tearing its way through the loose earth....

VOA: special.2010.04.26

I wrote this book in 2000 right at the peak of-- fortunately right at the peak of the stock market.

我2000年写这本书的时候,当时希勒教授在书中提醒投资者注意泡沫风险 股市正处于最高点 2个月后此预言果然应验

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That percent grew to the peak of the market in 1999; after the peak in 2000 it began to fall.

在1999年这一赞同的比例接近最高点,在2000年达到顶点后开始下降

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"It falls right smack in the peak season of our business,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Well, that matters to us, but the trouble is, without predictability you don't know where to put the peak.

那对我们很重要，但问题是，没可预见性你就不知道巅峰放在哪点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

t seems as if nature had saved all her ruggedness to pile it up in this colossal form of the Guadalupe Peak ...

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The rise time and the peak energy and the sustained duration of some of these sounds are highly detrimental to our hearing.

某些声响的起始，高峰以及持续阶段,对我们听力的损害,是极大的。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Peak blooming, when the trees are in full flower, may be delayed a little this spring.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

That is actually the peak of creation, what can I say ?

这就是创造的高峰，我能说什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Peak blooming, when the trees are in full flower, may be delayed a little.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

A much smaller peak, a much less rapid decline after the peak occurs.

一个较低的峰值,最大值出现后下降速度也较慢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

So, for example, we have this average level, and then it can go high where we have the peak, or it can go very low. We can also discuss sound waves, so again it's just the periodic variation of some property -- in this case we're talking about density, so we have high density areas and low density areas.

例如这是平均位置，在峰的位置水位高，在谷水位低，我们也可以,讨论声波它也是某种,量的周期变化，在这里我们,讨论的是密度,我们有高密度区和低密度区。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The facility in Arcadia is expected to help power 3,000 homes, at its peak,and do so without producing carbon emissions, like traditional coal-fired plants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

At its peak in the 1870s, more than 500 long,narrow boats carried cargo on the canal.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

This is the framework in which the then most prominent intellectual in France writes an essay at the very peak of the student uprising, entitled "What is an Author?"

后来法国最杰出的知识分子,在学生起义时写过一篇名为“作者是什么？“的文章，其指导思想就是这个“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Geithner says the typical pattern of an economic turnaround dictates that only when businesses start to hire again will there be a peak in unemployment.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

While it brought in many wonderful ideas, talked about the study of well-being, talked about the study of optimism, of kindness, of morality, of virtue, of love, of relationships, of peak experiences, of self-actualization, of empathy.

但它引入了许多精彩的理念，对于幸福感的研究，乐观主义的研究，善良，道德，美德，爱，两性关系，巅峰体验，自我实现，移情。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

At its peak in the 1970s, Reader's Digest boasted a circulation of 17 million in the United States alone, and its international editions sold millions more copies in many languages.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Now they are falling and in real terms home prices have fallen almost 10% since the peak in 2006.

从2006年房价格最高点算起,现在房价已经,下跌了将近 10%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

As the conference opened Sunday with a session on gender issues, Namibian lawmaker Nora Schimming-Chase said the number of women delegates has steadily declined since hitting a peak four years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

If you put it too soon, you might stick around for longer than that, and then the peak has come too soon.

如果你太早到达巅峰，你可能会有很长的下跌时期，这样的话巅峰来得太早了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Anti-government militia activity in the U.S.reached a peak in the early 1990s following a clash between law enforcement agencies and an armed religious group in Waco,Texas that left more than 70 people dead.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

For every dollar that you had in small stocks at the peak of the market, by the end of 1929, you lost 54% of your money.

崩盘前市场达到峰值时,投在小盘股里的每一分钱,到了1929年底,都会损失54%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Labor Department says first-time claims for jobless benefits took an unexpected drop last week, to the lowest number since 2009 began, and 20 percent lower than at its peak earlier in the year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The peak--this is the Case-Shiller ten-city index.

这是"科斯-席勒"10城市房价指数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Now we have what we would call rush hour conditions or peak travel conditions for as much as eight hours during the day - about three to four hours in the morning and similar time in the evening."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The peak occurs a little bit later and then there's a less rapid decline here, and then blood sugar actually ends up a little above this initial level, and therefore you're less likely to eat because you're less hungry.

峰值出现得比较晚,下降也较为缓慢,最后血糖结束在比起始值稍高的位置,因此人就没有那么想进食 因为不感觉饿

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Second and significantly, not an afterthought, it's the peak of creation!

第二个重要的，不是事后才想起的，它是创造的高峰！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选