Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.

地方特权怎么样了,拥有地方特权的城镇又发生了什么,绝对统治者削弱并最终废除了地方特权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These were, in turn, later transplanted to the New World and established in towns like Cambridge, and, of course, New Haven.

这些后来，都被移植到新世界,并重新在剑桥，当然还有新港立基。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In other cities and smaller towns, local people listen to band concerts and watch fireworks explode in a dark sky.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

So Athens was the polis for Attica, but it was also the polis for all of Attica, all that region around Athens, including villages and farms and other small towns too.

所以雅典是阿提卡地区的城镇，是整个阿提卡地区的城镇，雅典周围的所有地区，包括村庄，农田及其他小镇都属于它。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You come from every corner of our country -- from privilege and from poverty, from cities and small towns.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Again, when you traveling around Europe, if you're lucky to do that, you'll see these big fortified towns.

如果你有幸能周游欧洲的话,你会见到那些大型的要塞城镇

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The road is narrow and the traffic is often slow as it travels through each of the small towns of the Keys.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

I would say two-thirds of the coast of the island of Sicily is filled with Greek towns.

那里,我敢说西西里岛三分之二的沿岸,都分布着希腊城镇

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Afghanistan policy calls for establishing security in cities and towns, protecting civilians even if it means more danger for coalition troops.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were ; laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua.

耶利哥和艾城的挖掘都显示这两个城镇,都在约书亚前200年就已被毁损;,因此在约书亚时期，耶利哥根本就没有城墙。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But it was often difficult. To protect their towns,the settlers often had to employ people who were expert in the use of firearms.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Next time let's talk about identity, and let's talk about one of my favorite topics, the role of the schools in towns and in villages.

下次我们要讲同一性,要讲我最喜欢的一个话题,城镇和农村的学校所扮演的角色

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

His eyes were closed. The news went out by telegraph to cities and towns across the country.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

But the people in the outlying villages and towns and farms and everything would pay taxes.

但是生活在周边村庄，城镇及农田的人民,都要交税。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Many small towns also have things on display that help tell the story of the American people and the history of our country.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Into some of that space, towns and cities reappeared and with them new supports for freedom.

在那些地方,城市和城镇得以再度兴起,自由的思想也得到进一步发展

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They went to towns and cities to look for an easier and better way of life.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Call them towns for the sake of argument, sounds too urban, but call them that.

称这些为城镇是为了避免引起争议,听起来太城市化了,不过就这么叫吧

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Soon after sunrise, men began arriving at Harpers Ferry from other towns in the area.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

It is evident that these different Mycenaean towns, all throughout the Greek world, on both sides of the Aegean Sea, were in touch with each other.

很明显,这些位于爱琴海两岸的,希腊世界里的不同迈锡尼城市,都是互相联系的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Yet he struck hard and fast, and soon had control of the valley's main towns.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was once home to many silver mines and towns that grew up around them.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Even the characteristic thing in a polis, the agora, the marketplace,which also becomes the civic center of these towns, even these grew up later than the polis.

即使像"市",就是集市,这样城邦的标志性建筑,和城邦的中心建筑,也是在城邦建立之后才开始发端的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They left Washington, crossed the Potomac River, and seized the towns of Arlington and Alexandria.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

So, municipal privileges-- walls were put up for a variety of reasons around towns. Plague, for example.

在那些有特权的地方,人们因为各种理由修建围墙,例如瘟疫

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Because of pollution,however, the amounts are higher the closer you get to cities and towns.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Places like Ur, or Kish, towns that we know back there.

并不像那时的乌尔或者基什,这些我们已知的城镇

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Avila is one of the most fantastic fortified towns in europe.

它是欧洲最梦幻的要寨城镇之一

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选