But when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, the western alliance's main reason for being disappeared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

There is no basis for individual rights, or for a critique of existing ideas and institutions, if there is no base either in religion or in reason.

如果没有宗教和理性,人权以及对现有思想和制度的批判,也就没有了保障

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The reason I got to be a soccer team captain in the first place was because my coach said,

我最初之所以成为球队队长是因为我的教练说，

足球部队长的领导力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But Ryan says that's not the main reason the number of commercial lobster boats has dropped in the Boston Harbor.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!

人类是一件多么了不起的杰作，多么高贵的理性，多么无穷的力量，多么优雅的仪表,多么端庄的举止，行为像天使，智慧像天神！

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

bug It's not true now. If there is a bug in the program it's there for only one reason.

如果程序中有一个,那一定是有原因的，是你通过例如犯了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The report says one reason for the growing deadliness of cancer is more people smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He has suggested one reason the show is so popular: men and women each find something they like in it.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Is Milton powerful for the very straightforward reason that he's in possession of this tremendous literary strength, this unimaginable talent?

弥尔顿之所以强大是因为他有,无穷的文学力量，不可想象的天赋这显而易见的原因呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The reason he gave for not recusing himself was that there was no financial gain for him in making his decision.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One reason for the continuing popularity of "The Fantasticks" was that it was different from large musicals playing in Broadway theaters.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke says the large amounts being paid are part of the reason for the rise in hijackings.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

But there's nothing in the body view to give us a reason to make that choice.

但肉体理论没有一个标准让我们做出选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Another reason for the increase in bird strikes is the growing popularity of air travel in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

There's a reason we like sugar, and there's a real reason when we like the two of them together in something like ice cream.

我们喜欢糖也是有原因的,我们喜欢二者兼备的食物,比如像是冰淇淋,是非常有道理的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A major reason is that the dunes bury any plants in their way as they move across the desert.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

And these are the qualities taken together that Socrates calls justice, that can only be achievedwhen reason is in control of the appetites and desires.

而这些特质合在一起,便是苏格拉底所谓的正义，达成的方法,仅有透过由理性控制欲望与渴求。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One reason for not cheating is that a person might fear being criticized in public for cutting in line.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

When you go west, however, it stops in the coast of North Africa -the reason being the rest of North Africa is dominated by Carthage.

当你继续西行,希腊的城镇就止于北非沿岸,因为北非的其余领土,都被迦太基人所占领了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One reason is that heat from the sun can go through many of the building materials commonly found in cities.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

But one that I was very interested in was biology, and the reason was we did a lot of cool labs in high school, I loved doing the dissections -- it was very interesting to me to think about how different organs worked, how the heart could be a pump, how the lungs worked.

但当时我很喜欢生物学，因为我高中做了很多很酷的生物实验,我很喜欢解剖-,我觉得了解不同器官,怎么工作很有趣,像心脏怎么泵血。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The mind is the collection of activities based in the brain that involve how we act, think,feel and reason.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

This is the concept that is in the law and the reason we have it in the law is that it works to produce prosperity and to produce the things we need, like clothes, medical service, homes, whatever.

这是法律规定的概念,之所以在法律中有这样的规定,是因为这是繁荣的温床,才能生产出我们需要的东西,像衣服,医疗服务,家用等等

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Experts say one reason more people are dying from cancer is because more people are smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

So, not at a horribly advanced age, I would like to think, he went to Lyon, which was a capital of the Resistance because they have all these things called traboules in Lyon, was one reason--they're passageways where you'd keep the silk, raw silk dry.

他当时还没到混吃等死的地步,我个人觉得,于是他去了里昂,当时是抵抗组织的一个首都,因为里昂那有那种过道,这是一个原因--就是小胡同,能让丝绸,生丝保持干燥

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

There is some reason to believe that in the population known as "psychopaths," a population we'll return to later on when we discuss mental illness, this sort of instinctive empathy is broken and the pain of others just doesn't bother them very much.

我们有理由相信,在一类被称为“精神变态者“的人当中“,我们以后会继续讨论这类人,当我们讲到精神疾病时，他们就没有这种本能的移情,他们对别人的痛苦无动于衷。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选