You can see their energizing and imaginative contributions to modern design in buildings around the world.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And,again,to us in the modern world, if you didn't already have some exposure to religious narratives like this,that would sound odd.

同样的，对现代人来说，如果没接触过这类宗教描述,可能会觉得奇怪。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In these detailed works, the ancient art of glass meets the modern world of technology.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

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

"Next spring, I'm going to release a book set in the modern day world but a fantasy based on Egyptian mythology, bringing all those old Egyptian gods back to life."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

In these states, the modern world began to take form.

在这些国家中,现代世界的体制开始形成

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He adds that Russia in this field is far behind what he calls the modern civilized world.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.

那么我就到此为止了，星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So if that was the reason they were included in the ancient world,it's not the reason they're still in now, because modern scholars don't believe the apostles actually wrote all of these texts in the New Testament.

如果那就是它们在古代被选上的原因,它不是现代人所认为的原因，因为现代学者认为,新约里的书并非全为使徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选