Most of the stories were short. There was heavy use of color and images and things like opinion polls.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

If so, then what they were was a throne.

若真的这样，那么这个曾经应该是一个宝座。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You're not responsible for these paintings, but we'll illustrate ways in which the Dutch Republic, and their social structure, and what they emphasized, and who they thought they were was very different than, for example, la belle France.

你不必深究这些画作,不过我们将从荷兰的民主制度,社会结构,和他们自己所强调的特征上解释这些画的含义,他们认为自己和其他人很不一样,例如,和美丽的法国之间的不同

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

These were the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii was an important port for American trade ships sailing between the United States and China.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A TV was on. My eyes were elsewhere, but my ear was caught by the unmistakable voice of Walter Cronkite.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

What is a Little Magazine? Well, very often they were big They were little because their circulation was small.

那么小杂志是什么？，其实它们大多是比较大型的,之所以说它们“小“是因为发行量。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

It was not like they were giving them a great deal, this was part of constructing their own business expansion.

并不是良心发现，而是为了生意扩张。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

At the time that Miss Jordan left Congress, there were widespread reports that failing health was the cause for her decision.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

How did that change happened, was that always there, were you always looking at how did this thought affect the way we actually live our lives?

这种转变是怎样发生的？,这种转变一直存在吗？还是说您总是在思考,这种思想是怎样影响我们的,生活方式？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Colonel Parker made sure that songs Elvis had recorded earlier were released during the years he was in the army.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

We were satisfied with the dialogue that was taking place and we asked students to answer one question, and then comment on the response of another student.

我们对学生之间的谈话,很满意,他们被要求回答问题，然后对另一个同学的,回答作出评价。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

His theory was that Martians were trying to bring water to the warm areas near the equator of the planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

All right, we were down here, and I was saying, let's try a larger, introduce a bias.

好了，我们在这儿，我刚才说，让我们试试一个比较大的偏差值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

So, some of these cases were probably due to polio that was transmitted by incompletely killed virus that was present in the vaccine.

因此,那些病例的发病的原因,是被那些疫苗中携带的,没有被完全杀死的病毒感染

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Supplies were very low. There was not enough food to eat, no shoes to wear, and little left to fight with.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

What was happening was, these banks were not being watched carefully enough; their capital requirements were not enough for the kind of assets they were investing.

当初是因为,对这些银行监管不力,它们的资本水平没有达到,投资这类资产的要求

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Politics and public policy issues were avoided until the New England Courant was published in Boston in seventeen twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In previous years we were even higher, so this was low this year.

前几年的答案比这更高,今年还是比较低的年份

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"And the box was open and there were probably about five or six of these little round, yummy-smelling warm doughnuts in there.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

But,these were reactions against what the State was trying to do.

这些行动是为了反抗政府的规定

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So,many people were shocked when Roosevelt announced he was taking action under the law against the railroad trust.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

In Neurobiology last year, we were told of a rat who was tested a particular center in the brain where the rat was able to stimulate his brain and caused itself intense pleasure repeatedly.

上学年的生物神经学课提到个实验,老鼠的大脑有一特定区域,让老鼠自行刺激这一区域,从而不断获得强烈的快感。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He had a plan,he said. And he would not move until he was sure his men were ready.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

It was fun. There were parties.

大学生活很丰富，派对不断。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If these offers were rejected, Slidell was to try to buy part of California for five million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There is a very big-- one of the largest clinical trials that the U.S. Government ever did was called the Women's Health Initiative, and there were several purposes built into this particular study, but what it did was it took post menopausal women and randomly assigned them to different dietary conditions.

有一个很大的,美国政府曾经做过的,一个最大的临床试验,叫做"妇女健康倡导计划",这项研究有几个特殊的目的,研究主要是将更年期的妇女,随机分配至,不同的饮食环境中

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选