And so I decided to have a progressive scale that increases according to what you earn like the tax scale.

所以，我决定制定一个累进的捐款标准表,捐款的数量随着收入的增加而增加,就像税率表一样，这个标准表从收入的1%起步。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And everyone is intellectual generally, not everyone, but mostly intellectuals, progressive, high tech.

基本人人都是知识分子，不是每一个，但大部分都是知识分子，进步论者和高技术人群。

洛杉矶和旧金山的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You underlined it perhaps because you were convinced that this was Milton's wonderful and liberatory, progressive celebration of the absolute inviolability of the written word.

你们划出这句子有可能是因为你们被说服了,因为这是弥尔顿精彩的释放的，开明的不断前进的对于绝对神圣的书写文字的庆祝。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They did it again, even more decisively in World War Two, and that's how we got progressive taxes.

而二次世界大战时，他们毫不犹豫的，再次提高了对富人的征税，这就是累进税的由来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If we make--If we solve the problem of boredom setting in with progressive memory loss and radical personality changes, maybe boredom won't set in, but it's not anything that I especially want for myself.

如果用持续失忆,和剧烈人格变化来解决无聊的问题，也许不会产生无聊，但那不是我特别想做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And these people--this is kind of boring-- but these people were in government between 1830 and 1848, and King Louis-Philippe, who was chased from the throne in February of 1848, was seen as progressive, he was seen as the bourgeois monarch but he was perfectly noble.

这些人有点乏味,他们在1830年到1848年执政,国王是路易·菲利普,他在1848年二月被王室追捕,他被视为进取者,被视为资产阶级的君主,但他完全是个贵族

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The second great reform era is the Progressive Era, a great response to urbanization, industrialization and immigration, as it had never quite happened before.

第二个时期是进步时期,对于城市化的大力响应,工业化和移民入境,这是之前从未有过的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You have a progressive tax system that takes more money from the wealthier people and you have a welfare system that looks at individual hardship and pays out.

我们有随富有程度加重税负的,累进税制,还有关注个体并进行再分配支出的,福利制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选