"These are only their first Olympics." "And being at home, I don't know how they stood the pressure, because I certainly couldn't.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Now we can't neglect the first question here, which is at least for me: did Milton really believe this?

现在至少对我来说，我们不能忽略一个问题：,弥尔顿真的信这个吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

First,they don't meet in the daytime; they meet either early before light,at dawn, or after dark,at night.

首先，他们不在白天聚会;,要么在天亮前的黎明，要么在天黑后的夜晚。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It was the first-ever soccer game played at 11-year-old M&T Bank Stadium, which is the home field for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

It wasn't until 1645 at the age of thirty-six or thirty-seven that Milton would publish his first volume of poems, which he titled simply Poems.

直到1645年他36或37时,弥尔顿才出版了第一部诗集，就叫《弥尔顿十四行诗集》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"When you look at Salt Lake City, they didn't get it the first time. They redid their plan, they came back, and they were able to get their Olympics.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

It is an odd and unnatural view and I don't actually expect people to believe it at first.

这是个古怪又反常的观点,我并不奢望大家在一开始,就能接受这个观点

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

At first,Andrea Nemethi's face wasn't flat enough for glasses.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

At first I wasn't sure if I could continue it.

起初我不确定能否继续经营下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

That doesn't exactly go well at first.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

The first I couldn't pick out any melody at all.

第一首完全听不出任何旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Like when they devised the first engines or the first nuclear reactors, it didn't work so well at first and then from the experience of many people working on it, over many years, a body of knowledge emerges and that's what we call technology.

这和发明出第一个发动机,或者第一个核反应堆时一样,最开始总是存在很多问题,但随着很多人不断努力去完善它,一种理论体系才得以不断发展,这就是我们所说的科技

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And that certainly wasn't true way back at the start of A, as the fertilized egg first begins to split and multiply, subdivide and make organs.

显然不是在A阶段这么早就开始的，当受精的卵子开始分裂繁殖，继续分裂，形成器官。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选