Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Professor John Rogers: Milton is typically cited by literary historians as one of the first major English poets to praise in verse the institution of marriage.

约翰·罗格斯教授：文学家们说弥尔顿,是英国早期诗人中,赞美婚姻制度的一员。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Bad handwriting is the nemesis of historians, But he built a private library, and it wasn't just full of religious books.

难以辨认的字迹毫无疑问是历史学家的噩梦,他建了个私人图书馆,里面装的并不都是宗教书籍

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In fact,much of what historians know about the president's time at the house is from stories told by those soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This all, of course, leads to a change in what European historians taught us to call mentalities, mentalite.

这一切造成了改变,欧洲历史学家,把这个叫做思想,心态

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Historians say Congress was also unsure about the loyalties of the Alaska natives -- the Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

I see a naked body, which the art historians call a nude.

比如我看到一个裸体的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Historians say she was the strongest influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Historians and sociologists have brought in things back to the questions that Milgram was interested in and argue-- and this is controversial-- the extent to which obedience really is a good model for acts of genocide.

历史学家和社会学家,对于米尔格林姆感兴趣的这些问题,提出了一些新观点-,非常有争议的观点-,他们认为某种程度上，服从确实是,种族灭绝的一个模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

You'll remember that I mentioned several minutes ago that Milton appears -- literary historians, I think, have rightly seen the Milton who had written Lycidas as a different figure than the poet before having written Lycidas.

你们还记得我刚刚说过,精通文学的历史学家们，恰恰把写出了的弥尔顿,看作和之前的弥尔顿完全不同的一个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Historians say a trial in the colony of New York in seventeen thirty-five went a long way toward establishing this freedom.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

As one of my favorite historians warned me once, "Don't leave out the politics."

我最喜欢的一位历史学家曾如此警告过我,"不要忽略了政治"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He was forty years old. Over the years,historians and medical experts have tried to explain the cause of Poe's death.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

This tends to be an awkward expression or term that is used by historians.

这个表达并不准确,但是仍被历史学家使用

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But some historians suggest that the inclusion of opponents may not have been as smart an idea as Lincoln had hoped.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

So historians can and in fact have many times taken issue with a lot of Weber's historical claims. But he's invaluable, as the critic John Guillory has argued, for our purposes in the understanding of Milton and of a lot of the cultural business of the seventeenth century in general.

所以历史学家可以，事实上已经对韦伯的历史学断言,持反对意见，但就像评论家约翰古月里说的，对我们来说，在对弥尔顿以及很多,17世纪文化方面的事的了解上,他的意见是非常宝贵的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The historians also looked at administrative ability, relations with Congress, goal setting and the pursuit of equal justice for all.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

Questions about Eleanor Dare and the other lost colonists continually bring historians and other researchers to Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Historians believe that cacao seeds were also used in marriage ceremonies as a sign of the union between a husband and wife.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Yet agriculture is failing." Historians give four major reasons why agriculture was failing in the late eighteen eighties.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Medical historians say the death of Clara Maass also created a public protest over the use of humans in yellow fever research.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Historians say the trial formed the beginning of the legal idea that a statement is not libelous if it can be proven true.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Most historians believe that Etruscan society reached its height more than two thousand five hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Historians say the Italian scientist and mathematician may not have been the first to get a good look at the moon and planets.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

But historians say Webster's support for the compromise of eighteen fifty probably helped delay that crisis.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The nineteen twenties are remembered now as an exciting time that historians call the "Roaring Twenties."

VOA: special.2010.12.30

Historians say that by writing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln established a moral purpose for the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The historians named America's first president, George Washington, as second on the list of greatest presidents.

VOA: special.2009.02.27