Vlad the Impaler was said to have killed tens of thousands of people, including invading members of the Ottoman Empire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

different buildings that are famous in New York like the Empire State, bridges, you know, the Brooklyn Bridge.

画在各种纽约著名建筑的木块上，像帝国大厦、布鲁克林大桥。

我喜欢的建筑物 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

One was called "Empire". It showed a filmed image of the Empire State Building in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.09.05

So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.

所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The effort will help reduce carbon dioxide releases from the Empire State Building by more than one hundred thousand tons a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

And,so,the patronage of the Empire is that he can provide railroads, he can provide money for things, and that further centralizes the state.

帝国的资助者可以提供铁路,也可以为一些事情提供钱,这些东西更加集中于国家

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So is the Empire State Building in New York and buildings in other cities around the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

That border, excuse me, they are relics the British Empire are exiting in the minds of map-makers and politicians, not in the minds of people.

那个边境，不好意思，是大英帝国所建造的，只存在于,地图制造者和政治家的脑中，而人们并不认可它。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

One of his first jobs was with the company responsible for designing the Empire State Building.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In fact,many American presidents of the late eighteen hundreds did not have this taste for empire.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

It spread out beyond Crete because the Minoans established what we might want to call an empire in various parts of the Mediterranean, and it starts with Crete.

其所覆盖的区域比克里特岛更广阔,因为米诺斯文明建立了,现在我们所称的"帝国",其疆域分布于地中海的广大地区,它起源于特里克

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It ruled a wide-reaching empire. This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

The alternative to the city, the empire, can only be ruled despotically.

替代的城市与帝国社会，将仅能接受专制统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

New York,which always thinks big, was called The Empire State because of its natural wealth.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

or any of the countries that used to be in the empire for exceedingly good charity work

或者来自曾经是英国殖民地的做出突出慈善事业的人，

想获得骑士爵位 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was first developed in the Roman Empire about two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

There were always battles and wars going on, on the boundaries, the frontiers of the Roman Empire, but within the center of the empire there was an amazing period of peace.

战争永远都在进行，在边界，罗马帝国边境，但在帝国中心却是一派和平盛世。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The taste of empire is in the mouth of the people."

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Between the 1620s and the 1740s, the land of the Russian empire increases from 2.1 million square miles to 5.9 million square miles.

在17世纪20年代到40年代间,俄帝国的领土,由210万平方英里,增加到590万平方英里

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The Empire State Building has six thousand five hundred windows.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

But most of the free citizens of the Roman Empire, - of Rome, were poor people-- free, and even citizens, but they were poor people who weren't part of any rich household.

但是大多数罗马帝国的自由公民，都是穷人-,他们是自由的，甚至是公民，但都是穷人，不属于富裕家户。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Empire State Building opened in nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

No.the Empire State Building is not being painted.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It is,of course, the Empire State Building.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

他及其家庭，帝王的家庭，某种意义上说，就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples, who spoke different languages and had different customs, and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.

亚历山大的理想是，让所有说不同语言，不同习俗的民族，用一种希腊文化统一帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选