We have a monumental task ahead of us. And there's not a second to look back to our yesterdays, to look back at our fears and frustrations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

But because of those discoveries, we are now in a position to appreciate the monumental achievements of these early civilizations, these earliest civilizations.

由于那些考古发现，我们现在才能欣赏到,那些早期文明的不朽成就，最早的文明。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And a kind of, well, kindly and monumental, and yet approachable figure that is familiar from American school rooms.

有几分友好和伟大，他也是在美国学校的教室里也是常见到的人物像。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But for this 12-year old Romanian girl,it's monumental.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

You could imagine that this is a monumental sort of undertaking in a number of different ways.

你可以想象,从各方面来看,这都是一次里程碑式的实验

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It is like quite a monumental event, like Elvis dying or JFK being shot or something and yeah, just completely stunned really, so I cannot really imagine a bigger kind of thing happening in my lifetime,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"So,it's monumental,guys.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

In order to counteract the packaged and monumental form of The Norton, ] I will be using Beinecke's and Sterling's resources, using Power Point digitized files.

为了防止这本包装精美的诺顿纪念集对我们的阻碍，我会利用拜内克古籍馆,以及史德林图书馆的资源，同时运用一些幻灯片的电子文件。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选