"Just like law and order in general. What would have been comparable to the Wild West, being in the Wild West, where there literally was just chaos, no law and order, as to now where there actually was law and order.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

There was not fancy, but having a chance, having a beauty together, sitting down around the table, being presented with graduation certificates gradually and individually.

没有幻想，但借此机会，所有人度过了美好时光，他们围坐在桌前，一个一个地,颁发毕业证书。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

because I always felt like I was special for being a performer there.

因为我总感觉作为那里的一名演员，我是特别的。

关于纽约的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

First it may be that Adam and Eve had access to this tree up to that point. As long as their will conformed to the will of God there was no danger to their going on eternally, being immortal.

第一，亚当和夏娃很有可能，可以接近生命树,只要他们遵从上帝的旨意,此时的永生，是没有威胁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any Palestinian group, apparently to avoid being targeted by Israeli retaliation.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

So there was Napoleon in the 1800s conquering Europe and being crowned emperor, being defeated by the British,being sent to exile on,was it Elba,right?

拿破仑在1800年代征服欧洲,被加冕为皇帝，被英军击败，然后被放逐于厄尔巴岛？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"Some of you may recall that in June there was an attack on the Sobat river, which effectively prevented food assistance from being delivered by river,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

In addition to Jenner, there was a farmer named Benjamin Jesty, who recognized that farmers, being in contact with cows, didn't get disease as often as non-farmers did.

除了詹纳,还有个叫本杰明?加斯特的农民,他发现与奶牛接触的农民,不像其他人那样容易患天花

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

the battle took place over some land that was being contested on a frontier and they would go down to that area and pick a spot and there they would go and fight with one another.

战争爆发是为了争夺国境线上的争议地区,他们会到那个地区,挑好地方,然后在那里大打出手

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I want them to say that "there was somebody who lay bare, not just argument vision, The joy that he finds in being human, the joy he finds in sharing, the joy he finds in interacting, the common response, which is descent from black culture.

我想要听他们说：,“他是个揭露自己灵魂的人，而不是大谈道理“,作为人所得到的快乐，在分享和互动中所得到的快乐，从黑人文化中所衍生出来的“共鸣感”

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

One of them,by the way,just about ten years ago, the Orleanist family suffered kind of an embarrassing reversal when one of the Orleanists, sort of the third in line if there was ever an Orleanist restoration of the throne,was arrested for burglary, as being an accessory for burglary in the Pyrenees-Orientales.

顺便说一说,在十年前,奥尔良家族遭受了令人尴尬的霉运,这些儿子中的一个,如果奥尔良家族复辟的话,可以说是第三顺位继承人,他因为盗窃被捕,在东比利牛斯省因为盗窃同谋被捕

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They threw me up against the wall and checked me out, because I was a kid and I wanted to go there and see, just for the purpose of history, of being there.

他们把我推到墙上开始检查,因为我是个孩子而且我想去那看看,就是为了见证历史,亲身体验

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选