"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not in mine is the great issue of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The dead are raising their objections here to guns that will be used very shortly in the Great War. God reassures them, though, of course, what he says here is not reassuring.

死者在这里提出了他们对枪声的反对,那不久就会被用于世界大战中，上帝让他们放心，当然尽管他在此所说的并不是宽慰之言。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The great war of attrition in Virginia.

当时在弗吉尼亚还有一场大持久战

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

One of the great American success stories after World War Two was the rise of industrial farming.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

So war time periods were typically periods of great inflation and debasement of the currency.

所以，战争时期通常是,严重的通货膨胀,和货币改造的时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The company made a great deal of money buying land and building houses after World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And any way, Hobbes, however, was deeply distressed by the outbreak of war, and he spent a great deal of time reflecting on the causes of war and political disorder.

无论如何，霍布斯对战争的爆发,感到深深地压抑，因此他花了大量的时间反思,战争爆发的原因和政治秩序。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Faulkner's great writing days were over by the end of World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

So control of these international highways brought a great deal of wealth to the area, but the central location was a double-edged sword, because in times of peace it would bring prosperity, but, of course, in times of war the land was perpetually invaded as armies would crisscross the land going off to do battle with the great powers.

对这些国际要道的控制,给这个地区带来了大量的财富，但这处于中心的地理位置也如同一把双刃剑，因为在和平时期它带来繁荣，但，在战乱时期，这块土地常常被侵略,当军队在此刀刃相交,或者经过与强国征战。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

During the Civil War, the general had been a great hero.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Or was it 1840? Or was it really in the wake of the Mexican War when you get this massive expansion into the great southwest and the Mexican Session which we'll take up actually next week?

还是1840年,在墨西哥战争的前夕,美国大举扩张进入,广阔的西南部地区及墨西哥会议的召开,这些其实我们下周都会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The last British veteran from the so-called "Great War" died earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.

正是这种自我统治的愿望，直接统治的愿望，在政治统治中直接参与的愿望，霍布斯视为是,内战一个很重要的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And secondly Israel, even though itself, its people originally suffered a great holocaust - the great genocide of World War II - has not recognized it, again for strategic reasons, its connection with Turkey."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

The virtues endorsed by the poetic tradition of which Aristophanes is the great representative here the great inheritor and representative the virtues of this tradition were the virtues of a warrior culture of war-like peoples and men at war.

诗学传统赞同的美德,亚里斯多芬尼斯是,最佳的代表性人物,最佳的继承人与代表性人物,这项传统的美德,是战士文化的美德,关于好战人士及战场上的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选