Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down to earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

There are some passages in which the flood is said to have lasted for 40 days, or be on the earth for 40 days.

有些片段描述，比如说在《创世纪》第7章第17节中,雨要下40天。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The great Achilles, respected still in the afterworld would immediately turn it in to be a complete nobody on earth.

伟大的阿基里斯,死后在下界都受到尊敬的人物,都情愿立刻成为世间的一个无名小卒

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And if all of the possible brackets were filled out on standard paper and stacked on top of each other, how big would the pile be?" It would actually go from the earth to the moon and back,1.1 million times,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The Earth seems to be a pretty good inertial system, because on the ground, you leave something, it stays there.

地球看上去是个不错的惯性系,因为什么东西放在地上,都会保持静止

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

In the universe we-- Who knows what is out there in the universe but at least on Earth we may well be the only people there are.

在宇宙中，我们-,谁知道宇宙中有什么,但至少在地球上我们很可能是唯一的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Better to be a serf, the lowest serf on the earth, than to be a king in Hades."

在世上做一个奴隶,一个最卑贱的奴隶,也比在冥界称王要好得多"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选