He spoke about the importance and the promise of America's new position in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

All Milton has at the beginning of his poetic career is the promise of greatness, the anticipation of a luminous body of English poetry.

弥尔顿在诗歌生涯开始的时候只有,上帝传达给他必将伟大的希望，和必将成为英语诗人中最耀眼的人物的预期。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.

弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The season also brings the promise of new love.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

The points of view, again, are those of the sacred and profane, the soul and the body, the promise of a heavenly mansion, and the reality of a life lived in a foul sty.

这里表达的观点又是关于,神圣与世俗，灵魂与身体，关于住进天国的大厦的许诺，和生活在臭猪圈的现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Thus began the modern space age and the promise of future space exploration.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

You may choose to embrace dualism, reject the idea that the brain is responsible for mental life, and reject the promise of a scientific psychology.

你也可以选择身心二元论,拒绝承认大脑引起心理活动,看低科学心理学的前景

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The promise of the concessional loans further China's investment in the continent, aimed at improving such infrastructure as roads and energy production as well as developing agriculture and undertaking health and education initiatives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

It just holds out the promise of an explanation.

它只是承诺给出一个解释

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When I say that the Israeli government is making an unprecedented offer even though it is not what many would hope for and even though our position remains the same that settlement activity is not legitimate - nevertheless it holds out the promise of moving a step closer to a two-state solution,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The first is, that while God's promise is sure, the manner and the timing of its fulfillment is quite unpredictable.

首先是，上帝的承诺是确定无疑的，但实现的方法和时机却都是不可知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose story reflects the enduring promise of our land.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

So, the goldsmith would sign his name on it saying, I promise to give so many ounces of gold.

所以这个金匠会在票据上签名,保证归还多少盎司的金子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Well what can you do? Well you can promise miracles, there's very little control over these sorts of things, you can distort the science, you can lie about what you do and nobody will come after you.

那么你会做什么呢,你可以承诺奇迹,这很难给予控制,你可以歪曲科学,你可以说谎,隐瞒你的作为,也没有人会找你麻烦

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

In answer to the promise of the Bishop's heavenly mansion in another life, she claims another sort of house, what she calls love's mansion which is noble itself and which is to be lived here on earth.

在回答主教许诺的在另一个世界,生活在天国的大厦时,她提出另一种房子，称之为爱之屋,那房子自身是高贵的,是在现世存在也可居住的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

The covenant also entails God's promise to restore the rhythm of life and nature and never again to destroy the earth.

诺亚之约，使上帝必须信守自己的诺言,重新恢复人类和自然的秩序，永远不能再毁坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

However,the people of the Philippines built a statue to honor him for keeping his promise to return.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

So yet once more -- and I promise this will be one of the last times that we look back at Milton's mask - but yet once more, let's look at Comus.

因此我们要再一次--我保证,这将是我们最后一次回顾弥尔顿所写的这出面具戏,不管怎么着，让我们再次回顾《科玛斯》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The administration has had limited success with its promise of seventy-five billion dollars to help struggling homeowners.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

And as you read the story, remember its larger context: God's promise to make Abraham the father of a great people through his son, Isaac.

当阅读这个故事时，记住它的大框架：上帝许诺,亚伯拉罕通过他的儿子以撒成为大国之父。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

For example, a program called Pittsburgh Promise offers college scholarships for graduates of the city public schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Despite God's promise of land and blessing, things don't look so good at the end of Genesis.

尽管有了上帝的许诺和庇佑，事情在《创世纪》末并不尽善尽美。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

represented a time of promise. "This could not be happening" was the sentiment expressed as a growing crowd gathered around that black-and-white TV set.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It's the model of investment and profit that characterized so many of Milton's own early writings, including that promise, you'll remember, to his fellow Englishmen that he would one day produce a work of literature that his countrymen would not willingly let die.

这是一种投资模式和带有很多弥尔顿早期写作特征的收益,它包括了那个诺言，你们应该记得,那个诺言指他说有一天要为自己的追随者们写一篇文学作品,他的同胞们不希望这个诺言落空。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选