As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history as many as a billion, by some estimates.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

What I want to stress now is that Yeats sees passion at work in the same way in history.

我现在要强调的是,叶芝在工作中感到了激情,就如他在历史中感受到的一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That's an idea that struck people intuitively at various times in history, but they didn't know how to do these calculations.

在历史上,人们很多次,直觉地感知到了这一点,但是他们不知道怎么去计算

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Last year, Johnson became the second driver in history to win a third straight Sprint Cup championship.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Plato is not only one of the greatest philosophers in history, he wrote his philosophy in the form of dialogues.

柏拉图是历史上最伟大的哲学家之一,并且,他使用对话体形式来阐述其观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There have been many ships named Nautilus, but Nautilus 571 has a special place in history.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Milton, who is writing at the present moment of December of 1629, is claiming the capacity to arrive at a moment in history that he has already described as a long-completed one.

这首诗作于1629年12月，这时弥尔顿正在慢慢具备他达到历史性时刻的能力,而这时他也已经被这样称赞着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Thanks to technology, more music is available to more people than at any time in history.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Well, some examples, later on in history there's a quarrel between Athens and Megara as to who controls the island of Salamis.

好,再举几个例子,后来雅典和麦加拉间,就谁统治萨拉弥斯岛的问题起了争端

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"If you look back in history you will find that many presidents who were enormously popular in that first year became failed presidents over time.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Yeats's sense of his own implication in history, well, it's something that we see in the intensive, stylistic transformations that his writing undergoes.

就是叶芝对历史的想法，这就是我们看到的，他的彻底的风格上的改变,他的写作风格的改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"We will start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.

当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It sold more tickets in its first day than any other American movie in history.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Most people saw this peace-- many people in history say it is good.

很多目睹这段和平时期。。。,历史上很多人说它美好。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

There has never been a regime in history that was so single-mindedly devoted to the end of producing that rarest and most difficult species of humanity called simply philosopher.

历史上从没有一个政体,会如此专一地致力于,催生最稀有,最难得的人类物种,即哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It will require a new mindset -- that we summon the will, as nations and as partners, to do what this moment in history demands."

VOA: special.2010.04.17

So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is her sixteenth Oscar nomination -- more than any other actor in history.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

So I started to talk to the VCs and asking for $10 million at a very, very difficult time in Internet history.

就在互联网历史上最艰难的时期，我开始跟风险投资商接洽，向他们要1000万美元。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

She had a doctorate in history which she received from Yale in nineteen seventy-two.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Peter is one of those cases in European history where one person's personality and interest does make an enormous difference.

彼得是欧洲历史上那些,凭借自己的个性和喜好,起到重大影响的例子之一

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Mahan wrote that all the great nations in history had possessed great sea power.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

This is a picture of London Bridge, it's an interesting bridge which is important in the history of London.

这是伦敦桥的照片,它是一座有趣的桥,这座桥在伦敦历史上占有重要的地位

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history -- in history."

VOA: special.2010.07.23

So that was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the beginning of it, a famous passage in the history of classical music.

这是贝多芬的第五交响曲,开始的一段,在古典音乐史上非常有名一段

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The record-breaking sales made "The Lost Symbol" the fastest-selling adult novel in history.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

And so, sometimes people approach it in that way, and I think in a way it holds that aura around itself in our culture and in the history of the novel in this period that we're studying together.

有时候人确实这样，我觉得这在一定程度上倒是保留了文化的气氛,以及我们学习的,关于小说这段时期的历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Suppose you are starting a business with somebody-- it could be at any time in history-- Babylonia or something--this must have happened.

假设你要和某人一起做一笔生意...,可以在任何一个时代...,例如古巴比伦或者其他时代...肯定发生过这种事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选