Volvo was the first automobile manufacturer to offer the modern seat belt as a permanent addition to its cars.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

But that sense of collective liberty, the freedom to resist or invade is, in fact, even opposed to the modern idea of liberty that Hobbes proposes.

事实上，这种拥有抵抗，或是入侵他人的集体自由,与霍布斯提出的现代自由是相悖的。

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up to the modern age with philosophers like Machiavelli, Descartes, Locke, etc.

直到现代的哲学家，像马基雅弗利、笛卡尔、洛克等等。

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In the nineteen sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the Beatles and Burt Bacharach.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

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She collected the work of the great ancient painters, but also worked hard to support modern artists beginning their careers.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

So, I want to introduce you to the modern science of infant cognition.

我要给大家介绍下,关于婴儿认知的现代科学发现

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And if that is not fast enough, then people can drive to another part of the modern transportation system: the airport.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Modern Jazz Quartet continued to perform all over the world for sold-out crowds until the late nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

And,again,to us in the modern world, if you didn't already have some exposure to religious narratives like this,that would sound odd.

同样的，对现代人来说，如果没接触过这类宗教描述,可能会觉得奇怪。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In modern terms,the hot oven that the glassblower uses to quickly reheat the glass is called a "glory hole."

VOA: special.2009.09.16

According to Eliot, the modern world lacks a center, a kind of set of collective beliefs and commitments that would enable communication between us.

根据艾略特所说，现代世界缺少一个中心，缺少一套共有的信仰和承诺,来促成人与人之间的交流。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This very modern building was made to give its owners a beautiful view of the nearby forest and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

They're really quite remarkable. It's not unlike what the Turner Broadcasting Network does with old movies, colorizing them in order to make them more palatable to a modern audience.

真的很了不起，这类似于,特纳广播公司处理老电影的做法，给它们加上颜色使其更符合现代观众口味。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Cassatt family lived in Paris, France for about two years before moving to Heidelberg in modern day Germany.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

In fact, there are some very old books that show this as the average, the sum divided by two arithmetic mean, but the modern practice is to use the geometric mean.

事实上，一些很老的书籍上,平均的定义就是算数意义的，总的来说被分为两种算数意义，但现代我们多用几何意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is the first major exhibit to explore the role that sexual identity has played in modern paintings and photographs of people.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

But the modern world, to get back to that, to this Enlightenment world, individualism and a key aspect to that is hedonism.

但是回到现代社会,回到启蒙时期的世界,个人主义的关键在于享乐主义

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

So it's very easy for people to exceed dietary recommendations given what the modern food supply is.

在现代食物供给下,人们很容易就超过了建议饮食标准

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Simon and Schuster publicist Anna McKean says the girl detective stays true to her roots but is "ultra-modern."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Right. But you're a upstanding modern Muslim but you're just trying to get by, you're just trying to do the right thing by your own faith tradition.

是的，如果说您是个非常优秀的现代穆斯林,但是您只是勉强过得去，您只是在试图做正确的事,根据您自己的信仰传统。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The idea is to look for ways to use modern information and communications technologies to strengthen health systems.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

And this movie, i don't know if I would recommend it that much, it's... Perhaps I'm being too pC, but I'm not convinced that for the modern woman, hanging around waiting for your prince to come is really a good strategy.

这部电影我真不知道怎么推荐给大家,也许我已经老了吧,但我课不觉得现代的女性四处游荡,等待你的白马王子出现是个好策略

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Today,Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about the first western woman in modern times to become a doctor.

VOA: special.2010.09.12

then you take a boat from the Tate Modern to the Tate Britain,

然后你可以坐船从泰特现代美术馆去泰特英国美术馆，

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but the younger people, they look to America for more modern things.

但是年轻一代，他们看向美国，追求更时尚的事物。

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