In an audio tape released last week, the spiritual leader of radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, himself from Somaliland, ridiculed the breakaway region's continued attempt at democracy and independent statehood, saying that despite its nearly two-decade quest the region remains isolated and politically divided.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

One of the spiritual aspect for me is the recognition of the sovereignty of God, that God is ultimately in control of our lives.

从灵性的角度来说,也就是对于上帝主权的重新认识，那就是上帝最终掌控着每个人的生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .

这首诗所描绘的天堂与正统基督教所宣扬的,非物质的，精神的天堂是如此大相径庭,弥尔顿描绘了一副纵欲狂欢的场景,在神杖下纵欲狂欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yet he says this message is often more scary for people than the idea that leprosy is some sort of spiritual punishment.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

But there's a part of us, perhaps the essential part of us, that is something more than the physical, the spiritual, immaterial part of us, which as I say in this class we'll call a soul.

我们身体中有一部分，可能是重要的，比身体重要的，精神上的，非物质的部分，就像我在这里说的灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She wrote "I Must Be Saved" to honor the folk singer Odetta whom Peyroux calls her spiritual grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

that spiritual sense that the divine is always shrouded around by some Cloud of Unknowing.

那种精神的感觉,那种神圣感一直被某种，未知的云彩所缭绕。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A religious leader may also talk about the person and offer spiritual comfort to the family.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

And finally, it might be hard to mesh the mechanistic notion of the mind with the idea that people have spiritual value.

最后,将心理的机械论观点,与人类拥有精神价值的观点,相联系也是非常困难的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For the Taos Indians, it will always be the center of their cultural and spiritual world.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Eliot's poetry, the poetry he created out of this experience, is a poetry of spiritual agony.

艾略特的诗歌，他以自身经验写成的那些诗，是一种精神上的爆发。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

As a result, the United States is a nation where many spiritual beliefs are represented.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

You get the idea that everything arises from the extraordinary mental acuity or spiritual insight of an author and that what needs to be understood about literature is the genius of its production.

你发现一切,都源自这些作者的敏锐头脑和深刻见解,关于文学，你需要理解的,是这些天才的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He was greatly influenced by the Indian spiritual and political leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth or moral development in human being, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral,ethical,or saintly people.

如果想知道心灵成长的可能性，人类价值增长或道德发展的可能性，那我认为，我们可以研究,最道德或圣洁的人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The paintings also had a moral and spiritual message.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

" ...when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last!

VOA: special.2010.04.16

That was for me at the moment when I really, ok this is the spiritual moment.

就是那一刻，我知道,这就是我感受到了灵性的一刻。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

(SPEAKING) The Kremlin leader recognizes Islam and Islamic spiritual leaders have a special place in the Caucasus.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

And that it's because it is partaking of exactly the same motivation as that urge in the spirit that we usually associate with the spiritual.

这是因为它在实质上,和我们与宗教经常联系,在一起的精神力量。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

She is also his emotional and spiritual guide, the one who provides a reality check for him.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Just wondering could you say a little bit more about that and how this idea of humility before something outside of yourself lends to both the artistic endeavor and the spiritual endeavor, in your own life and in perhaps the lives of some of our viewers.

您能否谈一下这一点,讲一下这种面对超我之物,的谦卑如何体现在艺术创造,和精神生活中的，如何体现在您的生活,以及我们一些观众朋友生活中的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Pope Benedict said Angolans should "meet one another fearlessly, agreeing to share personal resources, both spiritual and material, for the good of all."

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

To understand the concerns of Milton's poetry, it is important to understand this massive conjunction of economic and spiritual thought that's really at the heart of English Protestantism.

想要了解弥尔顿诗歌的关注点,了解经济和精神上的联系是很重要的,这就是英国新教教义的核心。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Soon,inside the packed church, Horne's coffin was solemnly brought in, and the congregation began to sing an old spiritual hymn dear to Horne herself.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

He was the kid who was covered with mud for seven days, He said, "It doesn't look the same to me anymore, I think there were sort of spiritual awakening for him during that.

当时，他还是个孩子,远足的七天里，他浑身是泥，他说：“我对风雨的认识有了改变，可能在这次远足中,他有了灵性上的觉醒。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Political analyst Masha Lipman at the Moscow Carnegie Center says President Medvedev's appeal to Islamic spiritual leaders may be an attempt to contrast ordinary with radical Islam.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Man can't live without the polis,justice exists only in the polis, the polis is something more than a place, it's more than the walls,it's more than the ships, it is some kind of a thing that is spiritual it seems to me.

人们不能脱离城邦生活,公正仅存于城邦中,城邦不仅仅是一个地方,它超越墙壁,超越船只,它,在我看来,是一种精神上的事物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the degree to which you can have experiences where you are being intimate with the natural world, is part of that sort of key to open the door to those transcended experiences and to the spiritual nature.

你会有一些与自然亲密接触的经历,你能从这些经历中感悟到多少，决定着,你能否打开通往超验和,神性的门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选