The Great Lakes are part of a waterway that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the center of North America.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

I was about to tell you last time about the poet Hesiod, who lived in a little town in Boeotia to the north of Attica.

上次我讲到,住在阿提卡北面小镇皮奥夏的诗人,赫西奥德

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That area was controlled by Egypt at the purported time of the Exodus Running north to south, next to that coastal plain, is a region of low mountains.

在出埃及记时期，这个地区被埃及所控制,南北分布，靠近海岸平原，是低矮的山区。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The writer John Grisham gave many words of advice to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

He went up North from Denmark to a deserted island of the coast of Norway and stayed there for about three weeks.

他从丹麦北部,来到了挪威海岸的一个荒芜的岛上,并在这里呆了三周。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Another key event in the making of modernism is the great migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.

现代创作的另一个重要事件,是非裔美籍从南部乡下,往城市化的北部的大移民。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

It tried to control not only North Africa, but the waters of the Mediterranean in the west entirely.

它不仅仅想控制北非,甚至想把地中海西部也据为己有

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Actually I had thought I was going north when I went to colleges. We're only after I got to saw the Ohio and cross the Ohio River did people remind me that well, it was maybe north of the Ohio River, it was not the northeast.

其实我以为是在往北走,到斯沃斯莫尔去，只是,等到我看到俄亥俄，过了俄亥俄河,才有人提醒我,那儿可能是俄亥俄河北岸，而不是美国东北部。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Of course, with large-scale industrialization, which begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, you'll see this dramatic shift up to the north.

当然,随着大规模的工业化,在十八世纪中期的兴起,你会发现北方的戏剧性转变

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The way was now open for the armies of the North to march into the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

They are, therefore, going to have an extremely different point of view from at least Abolitionists in the North on this concept of equality.

关于平等的概念,他们还持有一种,非常极端的相反的观点,至少来自北方的废奴主义者是这么认为的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And,he said he thought that all the free Negroes of the North would come to fight slavery with him.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Not nearly with the priority we should be If we were, we would be first of all thinking about how to build a north Atlantic..

我们从来没重视过这点,如果重视这点，我们很可能首先考虑的就是,怎样建立一个北大西洋。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

That was not a real railroad. It was an organization of people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Within his own lifetime, Aristotle would see Athens, Sparta, and the other great cities of Greece swallowed up by the great Macedonian Empire to the north.

在他有生之年，亚里士多德看到雅典，斯巴达，和其它重要的希腊城市,被北方的,马其顿帝国并吞。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The many traditions of North African music she listened to as a child had a big influence on her.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Or, if you take England,for example, people came to care in very major ways what people in Manchester thought because Manchester becomes the capital essentially of the north and the economic center of production.

或者,拿英格兰举例,曼彻斯特人的意志具有很大影响力,因为那里对于北部的重要性堪比首都,并且是工业经济中心

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The battle of Shiloh had brought home to the American people both of the North and South the horror of war.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Frost, when he goes north of Boston, goes back to the country, goes in, in a sense, the opposite direction that America is going.

弗罗斯特，当他去波士顿北部时，回到那个国家，某种意义上来说，走进，和美国人完全相反的方向。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The declaration called on the people of the South to unite and be firm in their opposition to the North.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

So their national ties to the land in the north, in the south, the center is Jerusalem and its surroundings, Bethlehem is of no immediate interest to Islam.

所以他们与这片土地的联系,无论是北部，还是南部，都是国家层面的，中央的是耶路撒冷和周边，比如伯利恒，与伊斯兰教没有直接联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Then next to that north-south central hill country, you've got also running north to south, what we call the Great Jordan Rift Valley It goes the entire length of the country And the Jordan River runs through this valley.

靠近这个中心分布着南北走向山丘的国家，你看到,南北走向山谷，被称作约旦大裂谷,它贯穿整个国家的南北,约旦河流过这条裂谷。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Grant had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate army of the South during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

One of the great shifts in English/British history that you will become aware of is the shift of economic dynamism in England away from the south to the north.

英国历史进程的重大转折之一,就是在英国南北部之间的,经济活力的改变

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选