In many parts of the world we've seen that if governments introduce social protection programs, measures for example which give family benefits to families with children, particularly poorer families, this can have an important impact in enabling people to keep their children in school and out of the work force."

VOA: special.2010.05.17

We have a system, which you say it really-- The progressive tax system is very important but it's not conceptualized right.

我们有个制度，你们都觉得-,累进税制非常重要,但它被错误的概念化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They have various ideas about which pieces are more powerful and so they're more important to protect.

它们会想,哪些棋子的威力更大,需要重点庇护

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"It's important to have confidence. It's important to have on the ground inspections which this treaty provisions call for,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Well, in fact, the Corinthians send very little, send a couple of ships and a general, which turn out to be tremendously important, but they couldn't have known that in advance.

实际上,当时科林斯的支援非常有限,只派遣了两只船和一个常规军,最后这支援变得极为重要,远远超出了他们的预期

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"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And this just is another list, I mainly wanted you to have it in your notes of diseases that are important around the world, for which there are very active programs to develop either vaccines or more effective vaccines.

这是另一个表,我希望你们做笔记时把它加到,世界上这些严重的传染疾病上,因为现在有一些项目致力于开发,针对这些疾病的疫苗或者改进式疫苗

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

It's a very important industry and it's also one in which many of our students have found jobs, so I think it's important for us to try to understand the history of investment banks, the role they have in our financial community, and how they're regulated.

投资银行是一个非常重要的行业,我们许多学生都在投资银行工作,我们需要,了解投资银行的历史,在我们金融业扮演的角色,以及人们如何监管投资银行

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They tended,in general, not to have as much farmland as the places that I have described as not being colonizers, who may not have felt the pressures of land hunger, which was so important in motivating colonization.

这些城市也许,大体上,并没有像未进行殖民的城市,那样多的农田,未进行殖民的城市没有土地匮乏的问题,而这正是殖民的一个重要动机

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I do want to talk about one important subject which you might not have thought too much about and that's lipids, because lipids are so important to the structure of the body because they make up the membranes that form the cells that are the fundamental units.

我的确想要讨论一个重要的主题,这个主题也许你们都没有深入思考过,那就是关于脂类的问题,脂类对身体结构形成十分重要,它是组成细胞膜的基本单位,而细胞膜能够维持细胞形态

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