This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

So, at any rate, this seemed to me to be, when I started teaching this course, reasons not to teach it.

因此无论如何对我来说，当我开始教这门课的时候决定不说它的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I think before this mall started, it was just... The statue was the only thing there.

我想在这个购物商场开张之前，这尊雕像就是那里唯一的亮点。

关于哥伦布环岛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But intensive logging in this part of Finland has started to threaten the work and culture of this group.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This becomes a sheet of paper. Large machines started to be used for making paper near the end of the sixteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

General Electric ironically was started right after the Great Deleveraging of 1873 that was the bubble before the depression that was just like this one.

通用电气则恰好是在1873年,对冲基金拆仓后产生的,而那正是萧条来临前的泡沫时期。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Ben shouted again, but this time the hunter did not stop and Ben started to move toward him.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

But before I get started, I have to point out something a little bit unusual about this class We're being filmed.

但在我开始之前,我要告诉大家这个课程的一点特别之处,我们会被录像

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Jean Dubuffet soon started collecting this kind of art made by mental patients, prisoners and even children.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The last thing I want to point out to you is, I started out with this list. I haven't added anything to the list, right? I mean I've got a different kind of looping mechanism.

我们从这个列表开始，我没往这个列表上加任何东西对不对？,我的意思是我学会了一种不同种类的,循环机制，我想我得说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"They started out this kind of dark kelly and then they go to yellow, green,and brown.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

When I started merging, I did merging three times across this whole board, this level, this level, and this level, and each time because of the way I was advancing my fingers I touched each number just once.

在整个过程中，我一共做了,三次合并，这一层，这一层，和这一层，而且每次,由于要前移手指，因此对每个数字,仅仅移动了一次。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This is when street art started to become part of the more general popular culture.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

We started on this topic on Tuesday, particularly emphasizing smallpox and kind of the history of vaccine development.

我们在本周二,重点讨论了天花,以及疫苗的发展历史

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He also started the Royal Academy of Dance, where important people could learn this art.

VOA: special.2011.01.26

It doesn't matter if we finish a little bit early, but I want to try to get this game at least started.

不管能不能提前下课了,还是先开始这个游戏吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

An organization called the Oyster Recovery Partnership started the recycling program earlier this year.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices.

不知怎么的人们就认为,洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,而且他们开始竞相抬升房地产的价格

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But one difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And on Friday, this was how we started with every session, with every world leader, whether in business, whether in non-for-profit, whether in politics.

而在星期五，每一次聚会都是这样开始的，对每一个世界级领袖，无论是商界的，非盈利机构的，还是政界的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Some of the world's greatest hip-hop singers started this way.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

We didn't have a feasible business model, let's put it this way, because when we started, the business model is to provide the backend search technology to the portal companies in China.

或者说没有一个，可行的商业模式，因为公司成立初期的商业模式，是给门户网站公司,提供后台搜索技术。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

This industry started in Texas during the eighteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

And unsurprisingly-- since I announced this was going to be the result before the class had barely gotten started-- I don't think any of these arguments work.

我在课程还没正式开始的时候,就已经说过了,我认为这些论证都站不住脚

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Naturally,this saying was started by people who make movies.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

So we started collecting cereals and things like that from various countries, and found in this preliminary study, that it was the case, the American foods were sweeter.

我们从全球各地,收集了一些麦片之类的样本,研究发现,情况确实如此,美国的食品相对要甜一些

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In this vein, I am particularly heartened for instance to see how Nigeria started a dedicated anti-trafficking police and prosecution unit.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

And I think that since this country started out with people coming over from different countries

我想既然这个国家一开始就有来自世界各国的人，

美国的移民法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And this should look kind of familiar to some of the problems you may have seen on the problem-set if you started it this weekend.

如果你们这周就开始做习题集的话,这样的题目你们,应该会觉得很熟悉。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选