Pat Bodnar has more. "And the Pursuit of Happiness" began as a monthly column in the Opinion section of the New York Times.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

It's the pursuit of fame, the noble pursuit of fame, that spurs us to scorn delights and to live laborious days.

是对名望的追求，这高尚的追求，迫使我们批判享乐，艰苦度日。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The death of Edward King is really forcing him to question the point of his pursuit of greatness, of poetic fame, and all of his ambition.

爱德华·金的死迫使他询问自己,他这样追求伟大与名望，他这样的雄心壮志到底有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It states that everyone has the right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.

第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The right to life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Unalienable rights to life, liberty, and as Jefferson amended Locke, to the pursuit of happiness. Unalienable rights.

生命与自由不可剥夺，还在洛克基础上加上了，追求幸福的权利，都是不可剥夺的权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And in Washington this was the reaction: "To be honest,I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize men and women who have inspired me, and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

There's always the sense that Dean evades him, and I think part of that sense of an evading object of desire is, again, the pursuit of sex in this novel; it's part of the pursuit of sex.

总有种感觉好像迪恩在躲着他，而且我想这种回避的部分要求，一样，在这小说里还是对性的追求。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In 2003,he renounced weapons of mass destruction, a shrewd move in the year the United States invaded Iraq in pursuit of such arms.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

And so I said that the nations of the world will never cease from trouble until either the true breed of philosophers shall come to political office or until that of the rulers shall, by some divine law, " take the pursuit of philosophy."

所以我说,世界上的国家和种族永远不会停止纷争,直到正牌的哲学家,接管政权,或直到统治者都受某种神圣法律所辖，开始追求哲学“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Two brigades of Turkish commandos along with special forces crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of PKK rebels that had attacked a military outpost.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."

如果你回头再看看独立宣言，上面并没有说：,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是，我们相信这些真理不言而喻，从而,人人平等，所有人都拥有,人身自由，都有追求幸福的权利“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Mr.Obama,a day after brokering the first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the Gaza war late last year, said the United States will continue its pursuit of a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.

这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选