It is also called Mardi Gras City for the wild celebrations and parades that take place there every year.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And there is a lot of people that want to place the blame on the accounting for those, for the bank failures

好多人想将银行破产等这些归咎于会计记帐，

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Almost thirty years later, she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on the genocide that took place there.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Realize that there's this wonderful mechanism in place that allows you to put your toe in the water for several weeks no less and then get a sense, and then decide whether or not this is something for you.

要知道这种好的评分体制哈佛也有,在这种机制下你可以先试听几周,熟悉这一机制，然后再决定这是否适合你。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The United Nations Security Council has the lead responsibility for deciding that an act of aggression has taken place.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

That was the whole reason for entering society in the first place, to protect the right to property.

这就是当初人们加入社会的初衷，为了保护财产权。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

So the problem though is that they were looking in the wrong place for the explanation.

所以问题是,他们找答案找错了地方。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Others choose a place that will not be too far for all the guests to travel.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

It's never--it probably wasn't quite that easy but the invading side goes for something that the other side will have to defend and that determines when the fighting takes place.

可能不会这么简单,但当入侵方为了某一目进行侵略,被侵方就不得不防守,这就决定了战争的爆发时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She explained later that this seemed to be the place for her to stop being pushed around and to find out what human rights she had,if any.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

A woman can be proud and stiff When on love intent; But Love has pitched his mansion in ; The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent."

坟或床都无能为力,“当女人专注爱情之时;,她总会高傲自得,但爱情却把它的居所;,设在排泄之处,要明白凡事若要完美，都必须先撕破“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This was his chance. He finally had found a profession that would lead to his life work -- making the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

It's the way to store energy in a place that protects it, packs it away, and keeps it for pregnancy and for nursing the baby, so it's very important from a reproductive point of view.

这样把能量储存在一个地方,保护起来,为怀孕和养育孩子备用,从生殖观点来看这是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"They are all over the place and that's what makes the Gulf of Mexico such a rich place for fisheries."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

For the latter, this is a place where running test cases would do a good job of helping with that. Nonetheless, having done that, let's look at a better way to write this. Which is right here it is also, I think, on your sheet, I'm going to uncomment that, and comment this one out, yeah. All right?

对于后者来说，运行测试用例,对它会有很大的帮助，尽管如此，讲完了这些,让我们再来看看更好的,来写这个程序的一种方法吧，也就是这里,我想这程序也在，你们的课堂手册上面，我得先把这里取消注释,然后注释掉这里，是的，对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It wants to allay fears and the U.K.as a major center for interest in football is a good place to do that."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

We knew from Friday, when we talked about energy, that ground state was that n equals 1 value, that was the lowest energy, that was the most stable place for the electron.

我们上周五知道了，在讨论能量的时候，基态指，n等于1的态，它能量最低，是，最稳定的态。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Texas Republican Lamar Smith repeated the assertion that President Obama's plan would place the government in charge of making health decisions for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

The way God speaks to us in that place, and the way God care for us and provides for us is really the source of control rather than being ourselves.

上帝在那里和我们对话，上帝关爱我们，满足我们所需,这一切证明，上帝才是最初的控制者，而不是我们自己。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"The real issue is what happens now," "The Secretary made clear that given that this has taken place, now is the time for dialogue;

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

In the first place, what I want to impress upon you is that the sovereign is for Hobbes less a person than it is or he is an office.

首先，我要让你们明白，霍布斯所论及的君主,不只是一个拥有公职权力的人,更不是一个普通单纯的个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Edlene says,after the earthquake, she went on a local radio station and said I had a four-room place that was available for anyone who needed help.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

And sociologists point out that for a lot of aspects of your life, like getting a job, acquaintances matter, connections matter, and the connections you establish by going to a place like Yale hold you in good stead for the rest of your life, above and beyond any intellectual qualities that this place may offer.

社会学家指出，在你生活里很多方面，例如找工作，相识的人很重要，关系很重要，你去一个像耶鲁这样的地方建立的关系,能为你的余生带来好处，比这个地方教给你的知识更有好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Criticism,that is maybe for Europe or any other place, but for Africa we are happy for the visit, we thank him for his visit, we thank him for his message."

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Now when we put insulin in this place behind the right promoter, the cell thinks that it still has the lacZ gene present which it needs for its metabolism.

现在我们把胰岛素基因,放在正确的启动子后面,宿主细胞就会认为,它仍然有新陈代谢所需的lacZ基因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The president suggested a place for Cuba in that partnership.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

So if I have 32 bits, each of which can be a 0 or 1, that's two possibilities for every place, so 2 to the 32, that's 4 billion.

如果有32比特的话，每个比特都有0或，两种可能性，所以是2的32次方，也就是40亿。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, you would say, well, that's another place where Homer got it right, except for the fact that we also know how chariots are used in warfare and the closest analogy, I think, is to think of chariots as tanks.

你们可能会说,好吧,荷马又说对了,除非我们也懂得如何在战争中使用战车,我认为最相近的类比是把战车比作坦克

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选