There had been elections in most of the northern and southern states.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

and I think that since Enron and Worldcom, there had been a lot of regulatory changes

我觉得安然和世通的事情之后，有好多规章调整

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DAVID FAULKNER: "For many years, there had been an active campaign against segregated baseball led by Negro newspaper editors and,strangely enough,by the Communist party, which from the middle nineteen thirties on, had actively campaigned against segregated baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.

有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The body said during the weekend there had been a breach of confidentiality and apologized for treating the matter insensitively.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

There've been over 14 million hits to the site we've had from over 300,000 people and over 3 thousand email messages have been received.

收到了有超过30万人,三千多封电子邮件,这些电子邮件给了我们。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

There had been indications that the two might meet during the Obama family vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

We've always had our human rights, but in fact it hasn't always been there.

人权是我们所固有的，但事实并不总是这样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

John Koldowski is spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association says there had been hope the region's travel industry would begin to recover from the economic slump late this year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In a recent broadcast, al-Alam TV alleged, without any independent evidence, there had been a coup attempt in Saudi Arabia and that Prince Bandar, the son of Crown Prince Sultan, was under arrest.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

You see these big blanks, because nobody had ever been there.

那里在地图上是大片空白,没有人到过那里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Scientist Cecil Lewis said the human DNA could have been there because people had had contact with the bone.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

Well,I suppose it doesn't strike me as an implausible thing to say that if everybody in the troop got killed and you would have gotten killed had you been there, but instead,the person you hired to take your place gets killed, then he took your place.

我想可以这么说,如果大家都被杀死，而你若是在战场上也被杀了，但被杀的却是你花钱雇来的人，他就代替了你。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There were no great surprises that night because the winners of the awards had been announced three months earlier.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

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The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

From 1641 to 1643, there had been an unprecedented explosion of printing and publishing in England.

从1641年到1643年，在英格兰出现了,空前的印刷出版狂潮。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But among those remaining was a man who had been one of the first people to arrive there.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

At this point the study had been undertaken, there had been many, many more trials that had been done on cancer in men than there had been done on cancer in women, so there was a political reason for doing it as well.

研究就是基于这一点开始的,但在完成了的癌症实验中,关于男性的实验,要远多于关于女性的,这样做也是有政治因素的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

And the other countries have, of course, there are many many smaller countries had also been involved in the fighting.

还有其他很多小的国家,也参与了战争。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Some senators said there had not been such a crowd in the capitol building since the day Clay said goodbye to the Senate eight years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Well, so far we've had two models that have been thrown out to you: From polytheism's worship of many gods there's a natural evolution to henotheism's elevation of one god to a supreme position.

目前，我已经给你们提出了两种模型：,从崇拜众多神灵的多神论,自然进化到一神论,唯一的至高无上的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It was the first time he had been there in more than fifteen years.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A tomb had been built there for America's first President, George Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

In fact, the outcome here, this equilibrium here is for all intents and purposes, the same equilibrium we would have had had there been thousands of firms in the market And had this been a perfectly competitive market.

实际上,这个结果,这个均衡适用于所有的目的和意图,我们将得到同样的均衡,即使市场上有数千的公司,即使这是个完全竞争市场

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well, I had been there before when I was younger and I didn't really like it.

好吧，我年轻的时候去过那里，但我不喜欢它。

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