But they continue to debate the early evidence of music because few archeological objects exist to prove how music developed and spread.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

That's always open to debate, exactly when the South became a slave society.

经常有一些公开的争论,南方究竟是从何时成为奴隶社会的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So, Columbus gets the glory of discovering America but it's up to debate if he actually did discover it.

所以，哥伦布获得了发现美洲的殊荣，但对于这个问题，人们仍然争论不休。

哥伦布的故事 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Experts continue to debate how best to close this digital divide.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

I've noticed how students here love to debate just about everything.

我注意到这里的学生对所有的事情都喜欢辩论。

哈佛的讨论文化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

They said the proper place to debate the restoration of the judiciary is in Pakistan's parliament, not in the streets.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

So in the end,the canon is a list of the winners in the historical debate to define orthodox Christianity.

所以最后，正典书目只是赢家的清单,他们在这场定义东正教的历史争论中胜出。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"Congress will have time to read the bill," "They will have time to debate the bill.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The Bishop claims one side of debate, Jane claims the other. But unlike the Bishop, she doesn't want to reject the other and this is important.

主教是争论的一方,珍妮是另一方，但与主教不同的是,她并不排斥另一方，这点很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"We welcome sanctions." He went on to say that Iran has "given its package of proposals" to the world community to debate and resolve the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

And after the usual amount of scholarly debate, there seems to be no doubt that it was the City of Troy.

经过一番学术讨论之后,这里被确定为特洛伊城

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"The intent is not to debate the members of Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

And I know there's debate on campus about the extent to which there is segregation within the Yale community.

我知道学校里有人在讨论,隔离的现象是否存在于,耶鲁大学里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The French parliament is expected to debate the decision next week, but is expected to ultimately support it, ahead of a NATO summit marking the alliance's 60th anniversary next month.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The debate over that question is fierce, and it's one we're going to leave for another day.

对于这一问题的讨论相当激烈，我们将留下这个问题以后讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

During a long day of debate Saturday, Senate Majority leader, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, had appealed to senators to advance the bill to the floor, saying it is their job to debate such a crucial issue.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

And I've got to tell you, to this day there's a debate in the philosophical community about whether or not this argument works.

我已经告诉过你们,现今哲学界依旧在争论,到底这个论证是否正确

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The outcome of the Saturday night drama had actually been sealed earlier in the day, when two Democratic senators who had not pledged their support for the bill announced that they would vote for it to advance to debate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Now for my money, it's Belial who gives us the most beautiful and the most seductive contribution to the debate in hell, but it has got to be Mammon who most resembles Milton himself.

我敢打赌，是贝利亚给了我们在那场地狱的辩论中,最美的和最有魅力的演说，但是这份殊荣,给了最像弥尔顿他自己的贪神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Attention has been focused on Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, as he works behind closed doors to try to meld two different committee versions of health care legislation into one bill for the full Senate to debate.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He's willing to entertain arguments, both for and against the debate.

他愿意接受辩论，无论是支持或反对的论点。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

By the late 1970s, when I was there, pressure grew to relax these rules and it became the subject of debate among the faculty at St. Anne's College, which was one of these all-women's colleges.

七十年代后期，我在那里读书时，放宽规定的呼声日益高涨,并引起了其中一所女校,圣安妮大学的教职员，激烈的争论。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It would be impossible to explain the entire debate, so we will just tell a few stories about some great artists.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Or on the other side, there's a debate about whether Mitt Romney can choose to be, I guess he's trying to choose himself to be on the right hand wing of the republic party, given he has a record of governance, as being governor of Massachusetts when he provided state healthcare for example.

或者在另一派,争论米特·罗姆尼是否会选择,我猜他试图选择作为,右派共和党,考虑到他的政绩,在他作为马萨诸塞州州长期间,他提供了的州卫生保健

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Cloning? Well, I hate to land on one side of the debate or the other

克隆？我不希望在这种争论中选择某一个立场，

生物克隆是热点问题 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There is also debate about the desire of some Internet providers to offer special treatment to sites willing to pay for it.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

There were, and there's a lot of debate about what I'm going to say next, there were protocols of fighting that were followed.

我接下来要说的还有些争议,战争也是有需要遵从的惯例的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选