That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

You have the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and then the twelve minor prophets, which in the Hebrew Bible get counted together as one book, because those twelve are very small.

先知书里有三大预言家，以塞亚，耶利米和以西结，后来还有12个小先知，他们因为很小所以，全部被收入了一卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And then further you put some recording device, which in those days was a photographic plate, far across a room. So you take a tiny, tiny angle and you go far enough across the room.

接着放一些记录设备，那时用的是一个摄影用的感光片，取一个极小极小的角度,然后去到房间中足够远的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In good times,the desert provides abundant food for goats and camels, which in turn provide the families with surplus milk and meat to sell in local markets.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The essential feature of this regime the polity Politea which in fact he gives the name politea the generic Greek word for regime.

这种政权的必备特色,事实上，他称之为,即希腊文中的政体的原字。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That is our basic challenge now,". Geithner says it will take some time to bring down unemployment levels, which in October reached a 26-year high in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

They are engaged in raising livestock, which in Greece is more likely to be sheep and goats than cattle, but also breeding horses, which is very important for the aristocracy for carrying on warfare.

他们擅长豢养牲畜,在当地似乎养绵羊和山羊比牛要来的容易,但是他们同样养马,这对于贵族阶层发动战争很重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"Especially for us as Africans, despite all these accusations, let us celebrate his success and forget about other accusations which in most cases were found to be not necessarily true,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.

欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This is good." The region's travel industry, which in some countries makes up more than five percent of the economy, will be banking on a continued recovery of the global economy this year to build on the recent improvement.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Rather, his subtlety shows itself in his deliberate concealment of it, in the ways in which he masks himself in obviousness.

他的狡猾表现在他故意地隐藏这种隐约，而且是以很直白的方式表现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

They needn't be thought of as vulgar prejudices, one of which is in fact the "prejudice against prejudice."

它们并不一定是粗俗的偏见，这是对偏见的偏见“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

This is the year in which we have two dominant groups in the new revolutionary Parliament.

这也是我们在新革命性的议会中,拥有两个占统治地位的团体的一年。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

So suppose that we consider a deviation in which, and again I've forgotten your name in which Stacy stands as well.

假设我们考虑一种偏差的情况下,我又忘了你的名字了,斯泰西也参选了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But ten years later, a similar accusation by another boy led to a criminal trial which began in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

So you had the gymnasium where games would take place, Hippodrome but also you had the hippodrome, which is in Greek, which basically just means "the horse running place."

比赛通常在运动场里进行，但还有，希腊语，意思是“赛马场“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which black artists explored their culture and showed pride in their race.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

There's another sample which is in Russia, part of the former Soviet Union, where there are samples that were stored.

另一个样本在俄罗斯,前苏联的一部分,那也有储存的样本

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Here is the song "I Was a Bird" in which she dreams about flying high in the sky.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

But think of the various periods during the night in which you are in a deep, deep dreamless sleep.

但请设想你处在这样的夜晚,你处于熟睡，安枕无梦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

These include the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland which opens in the United States this week.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The First Bank of the United States was created in 1791 and they had a twenty-year charter which expired in 1811.

美国第一银行于1791年,建立并且它们有20年的许可证,到1811年到期。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The incident was one of many in American history in which a president had to decide if he should interfere in private industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind."

VOA: special.2009.07.29

What you can do is you can iterate keys, which gives you the keys in the dictionary, and then you can choose them, but there's no guarantee in the order in which you get keys.

你能做的就是迭代得到键，这样就可以得到字典中，所有的键并进行选择，但是键的顺序,是没有保证的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What is was, they went to areas of Paris like Belleville, which is in the northeast, which had long been assumed to be a radical place.

事实上,他们冲到位于巴黎东北部的,贝勒维尔地区,那里长期以来都被认为是激进的地区

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选