But the only firefighters who qualified for immediate promotion to lieutenant or captain were whites and two Hispanics,no blacks.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

if they haven't gone to law school or gone to college and then gone to law school, but

如果他们没有去过法学院，或者上过本科之后再去法学院，但是，

想成为律师的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But he needed the continued loyalty of those border states, like Maryland and Kentucky, or risk losing the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Then they'll be like, "That's the stupidest idea ever," or "That's somewhat interesting but maybe this and this and this."

之后他们会喜欢它，“这是最傻的想法，“,或是“这很有趣,但可能这样或是那样更好。“

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

But with threats, a language barrier and fear of the legal system, victims are often unwilling or unable to seek help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

They are amoral, some of them are nicer and better than others But they're not necessarily morally good or righteous.

他们是没有道德原则的，其中一些比另一些和善一点,但他们并没有道德上的美好和正直。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It may last a few seconds, but it can get worse and worse with age, leading to a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

We are bodies in motion, and who cannot help but obey the law or the physics of attraction and repulsion.

我们处在运动状态，这是无法控制的，只有遵循规律,或者引力和斥力的规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

That's just the simple sequential sense of "first," the first that comes before second, third and fourth; but there's something more radical here than the ordinal or sequential sense of "first."

这只是“先“表示顺序的简单含义,先于第二，第三，第四的那个“先“，但这里,“先“除了表示顺序的意思外还有更激进的含义“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But the judge questioned the remaining jurors and discovered that eight others had also gone online to research or discuss the case.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

As I keep moving down, that part gets smaller, it's not always the initial length of the list, and you're right. But if you do the sums, or if you want to think of it this way, if you think about this more generally, it's always on average at least the length of the list.

等等，随着移动，剩下的部分越来越小，并不是初始那么长了，如果你算一算，或者你这么想，你考虑更一般的情况，平均下来至少是列表的长度。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But another NASA project, the Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite,or LCROSS, could provide answers to what lies deeper beneath the moon's surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Maybe they're not- Maybe they're in publishing or some other field but they understand finance and a lot of them are directly in finance.

也许他们不是...,也许一些人是从事出版业的,或是其他的行业的,但是他们都懂金融,而且他们中很多人直接从事金融业

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The problem may last a few seconds, but it can get worse and worse with age, leading to a heart attack or stroke.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

But, you know, in 2D, the options are not just left and right or north and south, but infinity of possible directions in which I could go those 5 km.

但在二维空间中,不仅可以向左向右或者向南向北,我在走那5公里的时候可以有无数个方向

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

He had money and fame. But they did not cure his loneliness,his drinking, or his marriage problems.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

If you can kick the ball very hard, but not very accurately, then if you try and shoot to the left or right, you're slightly more likely to miss.

如果你只会大力抽射但是缺乏精准,当你射向左路或者右路时,你有可能会射偏

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Now, some of you who are very cynical and/or very good looking might wonder "yes, but good-looking people like me actually are smarter, more competent, more social and morally better."

有些持怀疑态度,同时可能又长得很好看的同学可能会想,“像我这样长得好看的人确实更聪明，更有能力，更会交际，更有道德“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But he says only one or two students usually choose it each year, and no one did in the graduating class in May.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

It may have been true or maybe not, but it made people start looking at the past, what really happened between 1940 and 1945, or '44, end of '44, what really happened.

也许是真的也许是假的,但是让人们开始回首往事,在1940年到1945年间到底发生了什么,或者44年,44年末,到底发生了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But supporters said it was the best way to protect the United States and its European allies from countries like Iran or North Korea.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She has no compromise to offer but the Constitution, and no concession or surrender to make.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Oddly, it's much more like going to a jazz concert where the audience is sitting maybe around tables or something like that and encouraging and interacting with the performers but again in those cultures no notation.

非常奇怪,这很像爵士音乐会的场面,观众们为鼓励演奏者而围坐在桌边,或围着别的什么的,并和演奏者积极互动,而这些文化中都没有记谱法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But a quick one turned into one or two, and soon those became one too many.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

So we've seen a lot of this, for instance, in office hours and maybe you too have done or are currently doing this, but there's a problem with writing a statement, like print F, followed by, get int, alone.

我们看过很多这个，例如，在办公时间,可能你们做完了或还在做这个，但是写语句的时候有个问题，就像printf，紧跟着的是GetInt，单独的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But I choose to walk, and just walking in the seasons whether it's snowing or raining, or gorgeous sunny fall day.

但是我选择走路，什么季节都是如此,无论是雪天，雨天，亦或是秋高气爽。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选