For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Whatever you're reading, it's always worth thinking about and considering what the motives might be for such extraordinary literary risk taking.

不管是读什么，想想作者,为什么会不惜冒这么大的险,总是有意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I've been taking the train for the past, say, give and(or) take six years and I've always loved it.

我以前一直坐火车，大约6年里都乘坐它，我一直很喜欢它。

方便的欧洲之星 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Today,a fall guy is anyone who is tricked into taking the blame for the crime or wrongdoing of someone else.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

But they're, I think, the two most prominent positions and definitely the ones most worth taking seriously for our purposes.

但我想,它们是,两个最突出的观点,并且绝对是,在我们解答问题上值得严肃对待的观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Tata Motors says it will begin taking orders for the car on April ninth both at car dealerships and on the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

And this is absolutely not true; it's for the most part the entire freshman year for instance at MIT is taking pass-fail.

这绝对是不正确的;,例如，麻省理工学院的大部分新生在第一年参加的课程,都是采用及格-不及格的打分制度。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For the first time she seemed to be taking a rest from the tiring act of thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

And there will be a different exam in the afternoon, but I think it only makes sense for you not to discuss the paper with people that are taking it in the afternoon.

在下午会有个不同的考试，但是我想仅仅是对你有意义,而不是和别人,讨论下午正在考的试卷。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The scientists estimate this would have the same climate effect as taking all cars in the world off the road for ten years.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

And so you can see the pneumonia, tuberculosis, the communicable diseases, infectious diseases, for the most part, are taking the most lives at that point.

你可以看到肺炎,肺结核,传染病,感染性疾病,是夺走大多数人生命的主要原因

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The book was revolutionary for the inventive style of taking photographs that show immediacy and emotional honesty.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He was called a hero for taking this kind of personal action to support the farm workers.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

You can produce animals that have a disease that's similar in some ways to Alzheimer's disease by taking the genes that are involved in Alzheimer's and introducing them into mice, for example.

我们可以创造,带有类似病症的实验动物,比如说通过把阿尔茨海默氏症相关基因,导入小鼠的方法

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And he made other changes, like adding the verse "we are not afraid" to offer support for the protests taking place across the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

For the sulfur, we start off with 6 valence electrons, minus 4 lone pair electrons, minus 2, taking in account our bonding electrons, so we end up with a formal charge of 0.

对于硫，我们从六个价电子开始，减去四个孤对电子，再减去二，算上我们的成键电子，因此最终我们有零个形式电荷。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But the secretary called for aggressive action, saying there was more risk in taking small steps.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

And I apologize for taking you over, we'll come back to this next time, please go to the website to sign up for recitation for tomorrow.

抱歉有点拖堂了，我们下次会接着这里讲，请去网站,为明天的复述签到。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Marilyn,though, earned praise for simply taking a short walk in the movie.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

This is how you get the rules for adding a vector to another vector, then taking a vector and multiplying it by some constant.

以上这些就是矢量加法的法则,以及数乘矢量的法则

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So I was a counselor for a year, and then they invited me to become a dean, an assistant dean, in order to not only work with individual students and their issues, but to also think about campus culture and ways we might help prepare the culture for the change that was taking place.

这样我做了一年的顾问，之后他们请我做了院长，副院长，这样就不仅仅是处理,一个个学生和他们的事情，还要思考校园的文化,思考如何帮助校园文化准备好,应对将要发生的改变。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now,he is taking a more populist approach focusing on the day-to-day issues that create money woes for many families.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

It's a unique piece because what he does is take some very basic patterns and simply repeats them over and over and over again for about fourteen and a half minutes depending upon the tempo that the conductor is taking the music.

这是件独特的作品,因为他仅仅只是把一些基本的样式,简单地重复重复再重复,大概十四分半钟,当然这也取决于,演奏者的演奏速度

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Senator Olympia Snowe criticized the executives for taking government aid and then leaving customers and dealers without any support.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

I think film mostly through the entertaining value and I know there is more to its essence I've never taking film class, so I hope the films might be interesting for us to discuss some philosophical concepts Never thought about like that.

我主要看到的是电影的娱乐价值,我也知道电影还有很多其他价值,我从没上过电影课,我希望这门课会很有趣,可以讨论一些哲学概念,我从没思考过这类问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"Booster ignition and lift off for space shuttle Discovery, taking the space station to full power for full science,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

I would first of all, congratulate you for taking the first step of starting to learn that process.

我会首先祝贺你踏出了学习语言的第一步，

学第二外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I actually believe in the history of the planet, there are very, very few instances of people getting paid for taking risk; they get paid for eliminating it.

我一直相信在人类的历史上，有非常少的例子来证明人们,因为承担风险而获得了收益；,他们是因为规避了风险而收益。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选