In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

What's happening there? Well, the selection of reactants has been done judiciously to provide either heat or to provide something that's cool.

就会感到这东西，比如说变冷了，对吧？,这里发生了什么？这些反应物都是,被仔细的选出来的，能够提供热量或制冷。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

There would have been a prevailing sense, and Milton has to have been sensitive to this, that it was simply too late to write an epic of any kind on any subject.

这很明显，弥尔顿肯定意识到了这一点，这个时候写史诗，不管写什么主题，都已经太晚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There something happens. He does not know how, but he has been transported to the Red Planet,Mars.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

But hermeneutics has a history; that is to say, it's not something which has always just been there.

诠释学有它的发展历程;,它并不是一开始就有的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And there have been reports that RIM has actually given these codes to the United States and other governments.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

There has been a strong move to change that relationship, with the students become far more active, and active participated in his or her own learning.

要改变这种教学的关系,让学生变得更积极，参与到自己的学习过程中。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He says there is nothing to harvest. In the nearby village of Qattana, no water has been pumped for days.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

There has been a long discussion about what people owe each other and how okay it is to try to make money.

曾经有一次很长的讨论,是关于自己欠别人多少,而自己应该赚多少才合适

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"In fact,there has not been a nominee in several generations who has brought the depth of judicial experience to this job that she offers."

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.

是的，现在,就有这样一个法案，在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There is no independent confirmation of the tolls, and the region has been closed to outsiders.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Well, they want to see blood, they want to see if there's a body, they want to see how much damage has been caused.

他们都想要看到血，他们想看到是否有尸体，他们想看事故的严重程度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

To date,there has been no evidence of contamination in the river from the oil spill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

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

"There has been a swift humanitarian response by the government and other agencies to this,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"It has gone from one court to another and there has been no will actually to strengthen the case there has been lack of political will."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

It's likely to increase, but there is more competition from India business India government has been a little more protective of India business They still have rules about which areas foreign investment can come in which areas they cannot come in.

也许机遇是有很多，但印度企业面临激烈的竞争,而印度政府又一直,有点过于保护本土企业,政府现在还有规定哪些领域,可以引进外资,哪些领域不准引进外资。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

"For too long,for a decade or more, there has been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

There has never been a regime in history that was so single-mindedly devoted to the end of producing that rarest and most difficult species of humanity called simply philosopher.

历史上从没有一个政体,会如此专一地致力于,催生最稀有,最难得的人类物种,即哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he says there's more to it. "It has been hard work.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

and it struck me that that there was a lot missing from the picture that has been given in Washington as they were trying to set policies that would affect education, that would affect the regulation of entertainment in terms of understanding of young people's relationships to technology.

让我感到震惊的是,在整件事情上还有许多东西不为人所知,在华盛顿这些都展示于世人面前,正如他们在制定政策,能够影响教育的发展，影响娱乐业的行业规则,至于了解,年轻人与技术的关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

May says that due to expanding private health care in Thailand and limits on foreign doctors working in the country there has been a reverse brain drain;

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Inflation is the most important thing according to many views because the Fed has to guarantee the soundness of the money supply -- and there have been so many cases in history when the central bank allowed debasement of the currency through inflation.

通货膨胀是最重要的事情,根据很多观点,因为美联储必须保证,货币供应的稳固,并且在历史上有太多的例子,当中央银行允许,通过通货膨胀改造货币。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I know there has been a lot of attention paid to some of the town hall meetings that are going on around the country, especially when tempers flare.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

So far,there has not been any evidence to confirm Mehsud's death.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

In recent days, there have been reports that the Internet search company Google has turned to the U.S.intelligence community to help track down threats to its operations in China.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Talks have been underway in Doha,Qatar between negotiators for the Sudanese government and various rebel groups, but so far there has been little visible progress to end the fighting.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The failed terror bomb plot constitutes Mr.Obama's most serious national security test to date, and the president has been quick to acknowledge that there is plenty of room for improvement.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06