Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It has the Letter of Barnabus,the Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul,along with the Acts of the Apostles, and the Revelation of Peter.

它还有巴拿巴书黑马牧人书，保罗行传和使徒行传，以及彼得启示录。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Mix eight grams of alum with seven grams of cream of tartar in a small amount of hot water.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

The death of Edward King is really forcing him to question the point of his pursuit of greatness, of poetic fame, and all of his ambition.

爱德华·金的死迫使他询问自己,他这样追求伟大与名望，他这样的雄心壮志到底有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was also a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Inventors Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

That's the basic outline of the story of Joseph and his brothers, but one of the important themes of these stories is the theme of God's providence.

这就是约瑟夫和他兄弟们的故事梗概，但是这些故事的一个非常重要的主题是,上帝的冒险。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

One of the researchers was Megan Moreno of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

And the reason we didn't do that is because we're actually going to spend much of the rest of the course relating these different properties to the properties of molecules in terms of bonding, and also in terms of chemical reactions.

我们至今没有这样做的原因是,实际上我们这门课程以后的大部分时间都将花在,如何将这些性质与分子的性质联系起来,在成键以及化学反应的方面。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

So, I think we are capable of, with the kind of assistance of my staff capable of setting exams of comparable difficulty.

所以，我们可以，在教学人员的帮助下，我们可以,制定出难度相当的考题。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Collectivism is the system of ownership and control of the means of production by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The majority leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, together with the chairmen of committees,keep the business of Congress moving.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

There are two issues of language One in terms of software, one in terms of websites In term of websites, most websites are in English because most of the websites are based in the United States.

关于语言，有两个重要的方面,一方面是软件，另一个是网页,对网页而言，大多数以英语显示,因为大多数网页的服务器设在美国。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The experience of art, the experience of poetry, and the reconciliation of conflicting needs results in a kind of catharsis, a "calm of mind, all passion spent".

艺术的体验，诗歌的体验，还有对相互冲突需求的协调,让人得到精神的发泄，得到“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is honoring all three researchers for studies of the structure and operation of a kind of cell called a ribosome.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

There is this sense of the concerns of the sky somehow, the concerns of the above; the concerns of the transcendent are seeping their way in to the concerns of the material world below.

这有种来自天空，来自天上的眷顾的感觉;,高高在上的天神一点一滴地,眷顾下面的物质世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"Out of the two thousand five hundred municipalities we have in Mexico, the equivalent of your counties in America, eighty of those have witnessed episodes of violence."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

The idea of human rights certainly hit a whole new stride in 1948, with the founding of the United Nations and the Charter of the United Nations and publishing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

当然，人权思想,在1948年迈出了崭新的一步，联合国成立,《联合国宪章》签署生效,《世界人权宣言》发表。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is why doctors advise people to perform monthly exams of all areas of skin, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

And part of it is we want you to learn how to have a catalog, if you like, of different classes of algorithms, so that when you get a problem, you try and map it into an appropriate class, and use the leverage, if you like, of that class of algorithms.

另外我希望你们能学会,如何制作一个关于，算法不同课程的目录，这样当你碰到问题的时候，你可以去找到合适的课程，然后在那门课程中，寻找解决方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Hall of Fame among others.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

And, one of the reasons why the role of the dominance of Paris is so great is precisely because of the centralization of the French state.

巴黎能够取得支配地位的一个原因,恰恰就是法国政府的中央集权化

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Thurlow Weed, one of the important Whig leaders in the state of New York, remembered how the people had loved Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

In spite of that fact, it turns out that vaccines are one of the best uses of our money in terms of extending the lives of population.

尽管事实如此,结论显示,疫苗是在众多延续人类生命,花费中最好的方式之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Moments that were days in the birth of fire and stars, moments of the struggle of all man and finally moments that showed the great mass of all humans' spirit.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Then again, you will find the evolution of the planetary motion, because the rate of change of the rate of the change of the position is connected to the position.

同样地,这就是行星运动的演化过程,因为行星位移的变化率的变化率,与它的位移有关

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The importance of the questions you ask of yourselves first and foremost, of your partner, of your students, of your parents, of your employees in the future, teammates and so on.

那些你首先向你自己，然后向你的搭档，学生，搭档，未来的雇员，和同事提出的问题的重要性。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选