There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

According to a time-honored tradition in finance, it says that it's a promise to pay $1, but it's not worth $1 today.

由于资金有时间价值,他说他承诺支付一美元,但在此时此刻它并不值一美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It depends on like, depends a little bit on like if you have time to take a class or so.

这要看，这有点要看你是不是有时间上课。

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For many Americans, summer is a time to put on swim wear and spend time at the sea or a lake.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

So we may live, in your lifetime, to a time when this burden of Southern history may get all but lifted altogether from Southerners, unless we don't forget the Civil War.

也许我们,在有生之年,不会看到这段历史给南方造成的阴影,完全消散,除非我们将内战遗忘

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Charles Wortmann at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says a one-time tillage may be used to correct a problem like aggressive weeds.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

Stagflation was a term that was developed in the 1970s to refer to a time when inflation is we have both high inflation and high unemployment; and so we're in that situation apparently again.

这种现象有个名字，叫做滞胀,滞胀是一个在二十世纪七十年代,发展出来的术语,指的是通货膨胀中的一段时间;,我们同时有高的通货膨胀和高的失业率；

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To some people,they are nothing more than a harmless treat or a guilty pleasure to enjoy from time to time.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

I want to spend a little time suggesting and developing the way in which that defense could be undertaken.

下面我想花点时间,阐述一下这一观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The cooler days of fall are a good time to explore the outdoors in and around the nation's capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

My guess is that 9:00 is not going to be a tremendously popular time, but maybe you'll surprise me.

我的猜测是九点的课时,不会是特别受欢迎的时间，但是可能你们会给我点儿惊喜。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He started to walk north. After a time, he arrived in the Bronx, the northern part of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

But really, the computer's just so fast I'm drawing the same string with just a slightly different number again and again after going to sleep one second at a time.

但是真实地，这个计算机到现在为止,我一次又一次用稍微不同的数字,绘画了相同的字符串,在睡眠1秒钟之后。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The experts say individual progress and not a set time period should always guide a decision to return to play.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

You know, and within a very short amount of time be able to do a lot of things that that person may never be able to do.

在短时间内,可以做很多,那些只有丰富经验的人做不到的事。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

These are local members of E Clampus Vitus, a historical society whose members like to have a good time.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

You've got to ask yourself, let the time it takes to do a full circle, that's the time period, do a full circle.

你已经问你自己了,留足够的时间让它运动一整圈,那就是运动整个圆周的时间周期

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Norman's family urged him to continue his studies at a time when many farm boys left school to find a job.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

You have to imagine a time when Switzerland wasn't extremely wealthy.

可以想象那时的瑞士并不富裕

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A short time later,state soldiers were used to break up a strike by railroad workers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

And that makes it for me a very exciting time to study this because the problems aren't solved in the way that bridge building is largely a solved problem now.

对于我而言,这是一个非常激动人心的时代,因为一百年前桥梁建设中难以解决的问题,在今天都得到了解决

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Others disagreed. In any case, it was not a good time to argue it was the Great Depression, and times were difficult.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

But wouldn't it be nice to just have a certain period of time every day when you didn't have to even have it be ? so much as a remote possibility?

但要是每天能有一段特定的时间,死亡对你来说,甚至连一个遥远的可能性都不是,那岂不是很好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He also needed time to organize a supply system to get to his forces the guns, bullets,food, and clothing they would need.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

When you bring a group of your friends back to your house, you're expecting to have a good time, : and your grandparent is there and says, "Oh, it's so good to see a bunch of young people.

当你带着,一群朋友回家，想要狂欢一下，但你的祖父母在家并说，“噢！看到一群年轻人真好。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Researchers from the Pew Charitable Trusts recently looked at how thirteen American cities are trying to balance budgets in a time of recession.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

We got used to hearing it that way, so it's kind of-- every time, you know, Schumann wants to write about the merry farmer-- But every time Chopin wants to write a funeral march-- And there's a tendency also-- minor low, major high, kind of thing.

我们早已习惯听到这种模式,因此它算...,要知道,每次,舒曼想写关于快乐的农夫的曲子,而肖邦总要写葬礼进行曲,还有一种趋向,小调低沉,大调高昂之类的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And yeah, it takes a long time to get good at it. A lot of fitness, too. A lot of working out.

要想划得熟练需要时间。体能也要好。再加上大量的锻炼。

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