In the early days of human history, people survived by hunting wild animals, or gathering wild grains and plants for food.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

It's from that story we have the idea that mankind is responsible or has dominion over the animals and the earth.

从这个故事中，我们感到,人类是重要的，人类统领着,其他动物和整个地球。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is, of course, important if you use animal testing to treat the animals with as much dignity as possible.

如果要用动物做实验的话，请给予这些动物最大的尊严，我认为一点十分重要。

需要动物实验吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Rinderpest affected Africa, Asia and Europe for millennia and caused widespread famine and decimated millions of animals, both domestic and wild."

VOA: special.2010.11.02

In fact, he called them "Beast machines" and said animals, nonhuman animals are merely robots, but people are different.

实际上他将动物称之为"野兽机器",他认为,非人类动物全是机器人,但人类是不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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 don't mean that the animals are identical me, but their reality is just as pure and indefeasible as my reality.

我并不是说动物和我一样，但它们的现实和我的现实,是一样纯粹，一样不可废弃的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He says the huge skull and many horns of Kosmoceratops make it one of the most amazing animals ever found.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

So you have land being formed on day three, And on day six you have the creation of land animals.

我们看到土地在第三天形成，在第六天，我们看到了陆生动物的出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Yogurt can be made with milk from cows or from other animals including goats, sheep, water buffalo and camels.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

And I think this is perhaps the whole one area in which we treat animals better than we treat humans.

只有在这一点上，我们对待动物的方式,要比对待人的方式人道得多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Under this layer of nanodiamonds, they found remains of many ancient animals, including those that disappeared after Younger Dryas.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

"For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.

他说，“因为我们主张自然演变并不无道理,而人类独立于其它动物之外,是因为我们有辩论能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

is to bring attention to the number of animals and places that have either disappeared or will disappear in our lifetime.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

宇宙之华，万物之灵,但对于我，这尘土的精华又算得了什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But the population of the animals known for their ability to travel far without much water has fallen sharply.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Suppose you are being pulled by my favorite animals -- the elephants -- from both sides by equal force.

假设我最喜欢的动物,大象从两边拉你

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Plants with names like coast fiddleneck, common cocklebur,low larkspur and common groundsel all present risks to people or animals.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It is an uncontrollable mystery "on the bestial floor": on the floor, on the bottom, on the ground, where the animals dwell.

这是个不可控制的神话,发生在兽性的地面上：,在地上，最低处，地面上，那儿是动物栖息的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is a place where plants and animals from the Caribbean Sea share an ecosystem with native North American species.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

He sees weird kinds of beasts and animals that had like--they're bodies of lambs, but they've got horns and they're bleeding all over the place.

看见了奇怪的动物与野兽,有着羔羊的身体，却长着角，浑身是血。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And the animals usually avoid their own waste, so that reduces the amount of good grazing space even more.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

That's one way of thinking why animal cells have cells from animals and humans have sub-cellular compartments.

这就不难想见,为什么动物细胞,包括,人类细胞有亚细胞结构区域了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But first,we tell about a new organization that is finding homes for animals and helping American soldiers at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Now in this particular case, these animals will not overeat on the healthy balanced food and won't gain excess weight, they'll maintain a normal weight.

在这种情况下,它们并不会吃过量的健康食品,因此不会变胖,所以一直保持着标准的体重

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Rockman imagines a terrible future in which plants and animals must be sent into space to protect them from Earth's pollution.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Many of them are not and, as William James points out, every animal, most animals, many animals love their children.

很多不可爱,正如威廉，詹姆斯指出的，每种动物，大多数动物，许多动物爱他们的孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She shows how Darwin came to understand that these island animals had differences, developed over time, that helped them survive.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Previously humans were to be vegetarian: Genesis 1, the portrait was one in which humans and animals did not compete for food, or consume one another.

在《创世纪》1中，早期的人类是素食主义者，描绘了一幅人类和动物,不用争夺食物，不用互相残杀的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If evolution wired us up simply to survive, then it's a puzzle why animals would relate positively to other animals.

如果进化仅让我们生存，那么这是个谜题,为什么动物之间确定有联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选