No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

I think the conclusion is that Mill's theory that when a majority of people are asked what they would rather do, they will answer that they would rather engage in a higher pleasure.

我认为结论是，就穆勒的理论而言,当大多数人被问及他们的偏好时，他们都会说自己更愿意选择高级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

My central concern for India is that a large majority of Indians may not be benefit in front of this growth.

我最关心的问题是,面对经济的飞快发展,大多数印度人可能无法获益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Project information manager Peter Okoth says a majority of farmers may have the information on-line in 3 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

My favorite example of this was a few years ago when there was a huge battle for the House majority leader.

我最喜欢的例子，几年前,白宫多数党领袖有一场大的争斗。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But because of the way election areas had been organized, the Douglas Democrats won a majority of seats.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

All right. We've got a big majority, and both are logical ways of thinking, but it turns out that the majority is correct, which is not always the case, but the electron is not ejected in this case.

好，大多数人都这么认为，这两种看法都是合乎逻辑的，但结果是大多数人是对的，这种情况不经常发生，但是电子在这种情况下,确实不会被逐出。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This month, a majority of Cadbury shareholders approved a purchase agreement by Kraft worth about nineteen billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Who else can find a way of reconciling the reaction of the majority in these two cases?

还有谁能来为两种情况中,大多数人的不同选择作出合理解释？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The winner would be the one who captured a majority of the popular votes in New York state.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Now,I understand that probably the majority of scholars would say,"No. It comes from a later period."

现在大多数学者会说,“不，它形成于更晚的时期“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Abraham Lincoln did not receive a majority of the popular vote in the eighteen sixty election.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

But she says, they didn't; some of them respond but a great majority of them don't.

但是她告诉我,农民们不这样想,他们中有一些买了保险但大多数没有

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But this is changing. Women now represent a majority of American college students.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

So for the majority of students, they did not have a physics lab.

因此对大多数学生来说，他们并没有物理实验室。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But a majority of justices said patent examiners must also protect innovation.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Most of the people, and I think it's reasonable to guess that a very high majority of the people would be living on farms, engaged in farming, feeding themselves,and the rest of the community.

大部分人,我想有理由这样猜测,绝大多数人都在农场居住,在农场从事农业劳动,从而保证他们自己和整个社区的生存

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Then they won a majority of seats in the territorial legislature.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But he got a majority of votes in the electoral college.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

But one thing I've heard, a report I read recently that disturbes me is that the overwhelming majority of the officers are Tadzhiks.

但是我还听到一件事，我看到一篇报道说到,让我有些担心,绝大多数的官员是塔吉克斯坦人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A majority of the delegates refused to vote for secession.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

A handful of people would, the vast majority would turn.

只有少数人选择往前开，绝大多数都选择转弯。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

However,in public opinion surveys a majority of Americans support it.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

We know that the way we enter into society is by consent, by agreement to leave the state of nature and to be governed by the majority and by a system of laws, human laws.

众所周知，只有经过同意，才能进入社会,才能脱离自然状态，并被大多数人,被人类法律体系所管辖。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One by one,a majority of each Southern delegation walked out.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Well, I think that if the great majority of people try to derive maximum utility out of a service, like using cell phones and the convenience that cell phones provide, that sacrifice is necessary for satisfaction to occur.

我觉得如果绝大多数人想要,从某项服务中获得最大功利，比如使用手机，享受手机所带来的便利，那么为了满足需求，这种牺牲就是必要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He had the support of a majority of convention delegates.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

A majority of convention delegates, however,were silverites.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Clearly,Democrats to a much larger degree than anyone else, but still,not even a majority of Democrats think he deserves the award."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10