Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to of any one individual or any group but rather to the city as a whole.

在创造城市时，我们不是在找寻,个人或团体的特殊快乐,而是要以城市的整体来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Thermodynamicstalks about equilibrium systems and how to go from one state of equilibrium to another state of equilibrium.

热力学研究的是平衡系统,以及如何,从一个平衡态转变到另一个平衡态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I want to urge all of you guys to do whatever you can to help the people of Nashville.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The entire thrust of the book is devoted to the taming of spiritedness, and to the control of spiritedness.

整本书的力道,都致力于开发意志，并控制意志。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Milton was able to think of this new form of church government as the most reasonable form of church government because it seemed to be the product of individual choices.

弥尔顿觉得这种教会政府的新形式,就是最合理的教会政府形式,因为这是个人选择的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Aylmer," said Georgiana, "I do not know what the cost would be to both of us to remove this birthmark.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.

第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

By the time you get to the end of the term, you're going to be dealing with some fairly complex things, so one of the things you're going to see is, we're going to make heavy use of libraries, or code written by others.

当你临近期末的时候，你们将要解决一些,相当复杂的难题，因此你们将会看到的其中一点是，我们要充分利用图书馆，或者别人编写的代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

People should tie a bright-colored object to the top of their car to increase the chance of rescue.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Instead of listening to the cry of agony they listen to the ring of dollars and stoop down and pick up the coins."

怨言绕耳过,硬币叮当落,速拾不嫌多"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He says scientists can compare genes of the frog to those of other creatures with backbones, including humans.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

Ultimately, we reach the conclusion that if we're to think of literature, we're to think of something that is made up: not something that is based on something but something that is made up.

最终，我们得到结论，如果我们要想到文学，我们就得想到虚构的一些事情,不是基于其它事情上的事情，而是虚构的一些事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So you really just need to turn off a handful of machines to have this type of disruption."

VOA: special.2011.02.21

So, what this lets us do now is directly compare, for example, the strength of a bond in terms of a hydrogen atom and hydrogen molecule, compared to any kind of molecule that we want to graph on top of it.

因此，这让我们现在可以做到直接进行比较，比如，将一个氢原子，和一个氢分子的键的强度，与任何其它类型的分子进行比较,我们只需要把它的曲线也画在这幅图上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Teachers can use online services that compare papers to thousands of others to search for copied work.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Starting this week we're going to sort of mix physiology and Biomedical Engineering, and that's going to start sort of this week and next.

从本周开始我们会把,生理学和生物医学工程的内容融合起来讲,话题自本周始 到下周止

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And will, to the best of my ability... And will, to the best of my ability...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

It's not the whole story though. Let me turn to the question of the physical picture that you ought to have of a polis.

但还有别的原因,让我们看一下,城邦所处的自然环境,你们心里应该有个大致的画面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Taney said the Constitution gave the right of citizenship only to members of the white race.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

I'm going to read parts of them to you, and together I think they give you the sort of snapshot I want you to have of where literature stands, where reading stands, at the middle of the twentieth century.

我要读一部分给大家听，这些可以给大家,一个关于二十世纪中期，文学和阅读的立足点是什么的简单印象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

We get used to the ticking of a clock or to noise of traffic but it's actually a very important form of learning because imagine life without it.

我们习惯了钟的滴答声和车来人往的噪音,但这却是一种非常重要的学习形式,我们不妨试想一下无法进行习惯化的情形。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But he gave the Defense Department forty-five days to think of ways to enforce the existing law "in a more humane and fair manner."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

But I would primarily focus on this emerging new class of prostheses that aims to read information out of the brain to help some of the most paralyzed patients.

但是，开始我想重点介绍这一新兴的脑接口,旨在解读大脑外部的信息,帮助严重瘫痪的病人。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Corporations are willing to pay a lot of money to be corporate sponsors of these teams.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

This is the best response of Player 1 to the best response of Player 2, to the best response of Player 1 to Player 2 producing half monopoly output and there are lots of brackets here.

它表示参与人1对于参与人2的最佳对策,是参与人2生产垄断产量一半的情况下的,这里有一大堆的括号

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

How do we enhance the belief in ourselves if there's such high correlation and there's a very high correlation and predictive power to a sense of hope, to a sense of optimism, to beliefs.

如何加强我们的信念,如果真有这么紧密的关联,如果希望,乐观主义和信念真的，有着非常紧密的关联和预测力。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选