The rituals enhance their satisfaction with life and create optimistic beliefs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

I know you want to get on with life, and you're onto the next thing, and you are tuning out, but you hear all the click, click, click, click, click?

我知道你希望在生活上出人头地，由于弄另一件事上了，后来你又不理会了，你能全部听到嘀嘀的声音？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I lived with Italians and, um, my entire life was not in English, um, for a year, um, which I loved,

我和意大利人住在一起。所以，整整一年的时间，我都没有接触英语。当然，我挺喜欢这样一段经历的。

换专业的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But with that longer life, people with Down syndrome may have an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease at an early age.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life and though he was a con man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.

狄恩属于那种对生活充满激情的年轻人,虽然他还是个很自信的骗子,这是因为生活中他希望得到的东西太多了,他希望能引起人们的注意。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

There are defense mechanisms, there are biological instincts, neurosis-- and if you understand these very often dark forces, were better able to deal with life: understand as well as improve the quality of life.

还有防卫机制，人类本能论，神经症-,如果你理解这些黑暗势力，就能更好地处理生活：,了解并改善生活质量。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

There was no separate caste of priests and there was very little concern, I don't mean any concern, but very little concern with life after death which was universally important in other civilizations.

没有独立的教会阶层,城邦里的人们很少关注来生这个概念,很少关注,不是说完全没有关注,此观念在当时的其他文明中是极为重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For over sixty years, Sendak's artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

I talked about life is not like a mathematic problem ? with you or in my other class ?

我说过生活不是个数学难题,是跟你们说过？，还是在我另外的课上？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Very often in these creations stories there is some sense of some realm from which life begins to emerge usually beginning with gods.

通常在这些创作的故事里，都会说到,神是人类的最先。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Rene Rivera says strong family ties and a shared Catholic faith helped people deal with the hard life in their community.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Some people find that a psychologically difficult thing to accept, but I've believed that pretty much all my life, so I'm quite comfortable with it.

有些人会觉得心理上,很难接受这一点，但在我的人生中，我一直相信这一点，我也坦然接受这一点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

It wants to live a life of a certain magnitude, but with a view to achieving the ultimate desired end, which is to return to an inorganic state on its own terms.

它们希望生命有意义，但是还是带这完成最终愿望的心态，那就是回到最初的无生命状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Rockman often shows nature as defined by a struggle for survival with a never-ending repetition of life and death.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Now, what does that have to do with the life of a cell inside the body?

这一特性,对我们体内细胞生存有什么意义呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The popular story of Molly Brown is that she was on the Titanic returning home to a happy life with her husband.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Having been affected personally so much by music and how music has shaped my life i am driven to deeply explore with that impact with other people.

个人来说，音乐对我的人生,产生了重大的影响,我决定对它为其他人带来的作用,进行深入研究。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

Blinded by a meaningless imperfection and an impossible goal, Aylmer had thrown away her life and with it his chance for happiness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He seemed to kill for no reason, and with no emotion, as if taking someone's life meant nothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With her pictures in Life magazine, she told a story about America's "Wild West" in the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

And even all the economists agree that most people will just do that and not spend it, There's a... -So you hear about the stimulus package and it neither enourages you nor outrages you You just shrug, and yawn and go on with your life. -Yea.

几乎所有的经济学家都一直认为,大部分人都会这么做，这个，-这么说这项一揽子刺激计划,并不引起你的兴趣,你只是耸耸肩，打个哈欠，事不关己的样子,生活该怎么过还是怎么过，-正是。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选