To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Even in Aristotle's time, it appears slavery was a controversial institution and elicited very different kinds of opinions and responses.

就算是在亚里士多德的年代，奴役已经是争议性的制度,且引起了,十分不同的意见与响应。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And in the family law class, we discussed quite a few very interesting and very controversial subjects.

在这堂课上，我们会讨论一些非常有趣又非常有争议的话题。

发挥创造力的瞬间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Public awareness is another part of the campaign. A controversial advertisement on television and billboards shows and asks which one deserves to die.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Now, this is a controversial view, but that is the view that he advances in the book and I think it's a very interesting analysis.

这就产生了一点儿争论，不过那是他在书中提出的观点,我觉得是个非常有趣的分析。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says China has taken steps to modify a controversial policy that was a source of growing concern among U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

I don't think that's a controversial judgment.

我认为这并不是个有争议的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And when it got around to the train station, it made a controversial call.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.

达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In addition the prime minister has been criticized for supporting a controversial anti-missile defense system that the United States considers building in the Czech Republic and Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

So what to eat, what the optimal diet is has become a pretty controversial issue.

吃什么和如何确定最佳食谱,成为冲突的两个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In what critics deemed well-orchestrated political theater a controversial candidate abandoned further attempts to prevent arrest and turned himself in while a rowdy crowd of supporters cheered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

I should say it once, that this is now a very controversial subject.

我应该说说以前的时候,这在现在来讲是颇具争议的话题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Iranian opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have not spoken on Press TV since a controversial presidential election in June, both complain that IRIB is unfairand biased in its coverage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Controversial in the sense that maybe it's not a good thing to do, or there might be some limits on what we want to do there in terms of integrating machines with people's brains.

它的争议性在于这可能并不是一件好事,在我们想往人脑中植入机械时,会不会受到某种限制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Mayor Bandic is a controversial figure with media reports that he fled police after being caught driving drunk and allegations he fixes bids for city work projects linked to his friends, while overpaying his aids.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

He is a controversial figure.

他是一个有争议的人物。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The International Monetary Fund last week released the second payment of a controversial The United States, which has the largest voting share on the IMF's executive board, was seen as attempting to delay the huge loan to pressure Sri Lanka to address human rights issues in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Freudian theory is now, at this point of time, extremely controversial and there is a lot of well-known criticisms and attacks on Freud.

如今，精神分析理论存在很多争议,有很多著名的针对弗洛伊德的批判和攻击。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The trial has been widely condemned as a sham designed to keep her locked up through next year's controversial elections.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

Let me start out by putting what I think is a relatively controversial proposition on the table and that's that this investment management business, when stripped down to its bare essentials, is really quite simple.

让我从一个,相对争议的话题开始,投资管理业务,当剥离种种表象追溯到其本质时,其实非常简单

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mr.Netanyahu is a hawk who has long supported Israel's controversial settlement enterprise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

.. What the Norwegian Government is doing wrong is-- it's a little bit controversial, my pointing this out to them.

挪威政府做的不对的地方就在于-,这引起了一些争议，我把他们的处境告诉了他们。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The alleged use of special operations troops in the raid could signal a shift away from the controversial U.S.tactic of relying on long-range missile assaults to take out terrorist targets.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Historians and sociologists have brought in things back to the questions that Milgram was interested in and argue-- and this is controversial-- the extent to which obedience really is a good model for acts of genocide.

历史学家和社会学家,对于米尔格林姆感兴趣的这些问题,提出了一些新观点-,非常有争议的观点-,他们认为某种程度上，服从确实是,种族灭绝的一个模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A South African court last week banned the controversial song.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

This is going to be very controversial, but I think it's a good thing to raise.

这个是非常有争议的，但我认为这是一个值得提倡的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Some political analysts in Thailand say he may have hurt his popularity by taking the post in Cambodia, and by making controversial comments on the revered Thai monarchy in an interview with a British newspaper.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Although not the only controversial aspect of reform proposals put forward by Democrats and supported by the president, a proposed government-run insurance option as an alternative to plans offered to Americans by private companies has drawn the most attention.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Iran has sent mixed signals about its response to the plan, under which much of the low-enriched uranium Iran has produced in its controversial enrichment program would be shipped abroad for processing, a step that would ease Western concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09