Soon after he had finished his work he sank into a chair by the side of the table upon which the body lay.
VOA: special.2011.02.26
And here it's all just tonic, just the basic primordial note upon which all these other tones are built.
在这里,最原始,最基本的音符,其它音符都基于基音而生
They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.
他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。
They said colonial policies violated important democratic ideas upon which the United States had been built.
VOA: special.2010.07.22
So in many ways the premises, coupled with what we discussed in the first two lectures, build the foundation of that spiral, upon which everything else will be built.
从许多方面来看,这个前提,跟我们开头的两节课有关,会建立这个螺旋的基础,那其他一切就更容易建起来。
But they can never engage in those efforts, if we do not do the job that I am confident we will do tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM on Christmas Eve, and that is to renew the American dream, and revive our middle class, and rebuild the foundation upon which future generations will stand.
VOA: standard.2009.12.24
So my entire emphasis is upon perception It's my perception, which from my point of way, which may not be yours.
所以我所有的重点都在观念上,那是我的观念,从我的角度出发的,那不能成为你们的观念。
I placed my own seat upon the very place under which lay the body of the victim.
VOA: special.2009.05.16
I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.
我对那些参考的理解完全不同,因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。
The task before me is greater than that which rested upon our first president.
VOA: special.2009.07.23
I have a tendency to put upon texts an inherent authority which is stronger, I think, than Derrida is willing to put on them.
我倾向于把一个固有的权威,放在文本之上,这个权威,我想,比德里达愿意放置的更强大。
And when she had seen them walk away together upon their path of flowers, followed by the happy shouts of the crowd, in which her one sad cry was lost!
VOA: special.2009.04.18
and added a structure of math upon it, to build this edifice, which is a very solid edifice of thermodynamics as a science of equilibrium systems.
了这座热力学的坚固大厦,这是一门,平衡态系统,的科学。
Foam insulation damaged the shuttle's heat tiles during launch, which led to Columbia breaking apart upon re-entry.
VOA: standard.2009.07.16
Everything with me depends upon the estimation in which I am held."
我的一切,都和对我的评价密不可分"
Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.
VOA: standard.2009.07.02
The rise of the polis is based upon critical, economic, military,social,and political changes, all of which produce a world that's really strikingly different from the one that was just before it.
城邦的兴起是基于关键方面,经济,军事,社会 和政治的变革,所有的一切都造就了一个,与之前的时代截然不同的新世界
India was unwilling to meet Moscow's demand for $1.2 billion above an agreed upon price for refurbishment of the warship, which was launched in 1982.
VOA: standard.2009.12.08
To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.
对母鸡来说,这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷,觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言,永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。
"We have now to concretize the measure which have been agreed upon 11 April and we have to send a clear signal that we will not let down Greece, and I think that is the bottom line of everything."
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
Every polity of which we know is based upon a distinction between the rulers and the ruled.
每一个我们所知的政体,都是根据,统治者与被统治者的区分而定。
These unseen lights which shone through them upon your faith were reflections of American efforts to live up to an idea. Those characters could have been no other than products of American tradition.
作为美国式理想的产物,这些难以绘状的光,其实就象征着,你们为了理想,去拼搏和开拓。
That was the natural thing to do given the character of life, which was based upon farming, if you leave you lose your farm, and based upon the difficulty of transportation.
生活的意义就是定居一处,种田养家,离开了这片土地,就失去了食物的来源,另外,古时的交通非常落后
They would have seen this as an example of the word that they used, and we'll talk about a lot in this course, hubris, a kind of violent arrogance which comes upon men when they see themselves as more than human and behave as though they were divine.
对于这种观点,他们经常会用一个词来表示,我们以后也会经常提到,狂妄,一种极度的傲慢,以至于让他们认为自己是神,于是他的行为也像神一样狂妄
I say this now with great confidence but ten years ago this story, which all the Greeks agreed too, agreed upon in every respect, that the temple of Apollo was built right on top of this, and underneath the floor of the temple was this little room where the gases came up, where the priestess sat, where all of this came up.
我现在敢在这里夸夸其谈,但是十年前,当时的希腊人,对这个传说都是深信不移的,阿波罗神庙正好建在它上面,神庙地板底下正是气体出现的小屋,女祭司也坐在这里,一切都发生于此
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