It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"In summary,the man calling himself Barack Hussein Obama has no real birth certificate issued by the United States," the man said in an Internet video blog.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

That is, this kind of aristocratic outfit, aristocracy of birth, which is legitimized by heroic behavior on the battlefield.

也就是说,由于他们在战场上的英雄行为,他们的贵族的身份和贵族出身是被认可的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The virus can be transmitted by unsafe sex and unsterile needles, but most people who suffer from the disease become infected at birth from their mothers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

They say: Oh, these ladies are too quick; We get there too late, they've already given birth by the time we arrive.

她们说：希伯来妇女们动作太快;,我们到的晚了我们还没有到，她们已经生产了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine conducted a study that shows that by training local birth attendants in a method promoted by the World Health Organization, the number of still births was reduced by about 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

The painting is The Birth of Christ by Botticelli in the end of the 15th century.

这幅油画--《维纳斯的诞生》,是画家波特切利在15世纪作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All of these heroes are aristocrats in the traditional sense of the word; they arrive at their high standing in their community by virtue of birth.

而所有这些英雄们,从传统角度来说,都是贵族,他们在社会中得到了很高的名望,因为他们生而高贵

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选