Colin Firth plays a college professor who is mourning the death of his partner in "A Single Man."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Milton, who had died in 1674, had established himself as a great English poet within twenty or so years of his death.

弥尔顿死于1674年，死前花了20多年,奠定了他伟大英国诗人的地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"The Brooks Brothers coat was given to the favorite doorman after Lincoln's death, at the White House,Alphonso Donn, who kept it in his family.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Now for next time we'll be reading Lycidas, which is about the death of a friend -- and the death of a friend, in fact, who died a virgin, we have to assume.

下一次我们将开始阅读《利西达斯》,是关于一位朋友的死亡，事实上这位死去的朋友是位处女，这我们得设想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In one of its many statistical graphs, the WHO study shows money can mean the difference between life and death.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Here is a philosopher in life and in death who adhered to the principles of his philosophy.

这就是一位生前身后,都谨守自己哲学原理的哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted in previous trials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

It does seem as though people who have brushes with death change their behavior in significant ways.

确实似乎有过和死亡擦肩而过经历的人,行为会显著地改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The idea for the book on death row originated with Sam Houston State University English Professor Paul Ruffin, who teaches a class in which students develop a book from inception to printing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

There's the room of this life, and there's the room of the next life and people who have near-death experiences either temporarily were in the second room or else at least they were glancing into the second room.

这里是今生的房间,那里有一个来世的房间,有濒死体验的人,或者短暂地进入到第二个房间,或者至少对第二个房间匆匆一瞥

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

On November 14,a group of Venetians will carry a coffin symbolizing the death of the city down the Grand Canal in a procession of three boats and anyone else who wants to join in.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Godane,who came to power after the death of al-Shabab founder Aden Hashi Ayro in a U.S.missile strike in May 2008, is firmly committed to the idea of using al-Qaida-trained foreign fighters to help al-Shabab violently overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23