Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

He's narrating in great detail what happened while he was in the womb. Where does this knowledge come from?

他花了很大笔墨很详细地描写了,他还在子宫里发生的事，但他是怎么知道的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Particularly the black churches have got great, great musicians working on a salary basis for the church.

尤其是在黑人教堂，那儿有很棒的音乐家，为教堂带薪工作。

作为一名音乐家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

You really had a remarkable success in academics, in the administrative... You've taught at great universities across the country.

您在学术界，行政管理层，都取得了巨大的成功。,您曾在多所美国名校执教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two...

VOA: special.2010.05.14

But they're great listeners and then they translate that into interactive learning and the organizations tend to be great listening organizations.

他们也善于倾听,然后将其转化为互动式学习,那么整个团队也会变得善于倾听。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Now for thinking about the application or that putting the content into practice, we put a great deal of emphasis on that.

接下来要考虑应用,即将内容运用于实践，我们非常强调这一点。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They stretch from the north pole to the south pole, and back again in great circles of the same size.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So this unique temperature and unique pressure defines a triple point everywhere, and that's a great reference point.

这样，无论在何处,三相点都具有相同的温度和压强,十分适合来作参考点。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Public protest was so great that both parties in the eighteen eighty-eight elections promised to pass a federal law against trusts.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mister Webster called me to his side and spoke to me of Mister Clay in words of great kindness.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It's a kind of imprisonment, understanding, and when Heidegger says, wouldn't it be great not to have to merely understand?

理解是一种禁锢，海德格尔说，不必去理解不是很好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Great. Yup, it's going to be an electron acceptor, it wants to accept electrons, it wants to accept electron density.

很好，没错，它将是一个电子的受主，它想要接收电子，接收电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

These pictures show young readers what led Darwin to form his great discovery: the evolution of species through natural selection.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The first, in many ways, great defender, the first great champion of the emancipation of women from the household.

他从很多方面看来是第一位伟大的捍卫者，第一位将妇女,从家务中解放出来的伟大斗士。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We have no choice," he said, "as to whether or not we will play a great part in the world.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Any era of great change, great ferment, usually causes reform, anxiety, people who get worried, want to change things.

任何一个大变革的时代,大的动乱,通常会导致改革和焦虑,人们变得担忧,想要改变局面

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Not so easy to see. All right, but this is actually a great one of those educational moments. This is a great example to think recursively. If I wanted to think about this problem recursively- what do I mean by thinking recursively?

看不太出来，好，但实际上是一个有教育意义的时刻,这是一个很好的关于递归的例子,如果我用递归的思想,去考虑这个问题-,我该怎么用递归去解决这个问题呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It would be impossible to explain the entire debate, so we will just tell a few stories about some great artists.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Well, that's a great story, and it's an example of a great success in medicine.

这是一个很伟大的事情,是医学取得成功的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But yeah, she's great! I love her. I met her here and it's going great.

但是，是的，她很棒！我爱她。我在这里认识她，我们的关系很好。

我们是校园情侣 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

As a result of the Freedom Rides, they had integrated interstate transportation, at great cost to the volunteers who rode those buses.

作为自由乘车运动的结果，州际间的交通被大大集中，不过这使那些乘坐巴士的志愿者们付出了极大的代价。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选