Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Comedy/Tragedy is for theatre. The Microphone is for radio.

悲剧/喜剧是给剧院的。麦克风是给广播的。

街头邂逅明星 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

It's at this point that Milton chose for the subject of his epic poem the subject of the tragedy that he'd been contemplating for so many years.

弥尔顿在这个时候决定用他多年来都在构思的,悲剧的主题作为他的史诗的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot told the story of the tragedy in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Pity" and "terror," these become crucial terms, the terms that Aristotle, in his Poetics, used to define tragedy.

遗憾或恐惧“,这是很关键的词，亚里士多德在《诗学》中用它，定义悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

She and Arthur Herzog wrote it. Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

when innocent lives were lost in such tragedy, especially after Hurricane Katrina, in the Jewish community people are really struggling with that question.

当这样的灾难夺去无辜的生命，尤其是在卡特里娜飓风之后，犹太社会的人们开始,挣扎于这个问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Ecologist Garrett Hardin described this idea in nineteen sixty-eight as "the tragedy of the commons."

VOA: special.2009.10.16

And the sort of tragedy then is sort of personal tragedy where is taking away from his parents.

悲剧是一种个人的,从父母那里的来的悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

He called it a "tragedy" and a "twenty billion dollar shakedown" of a private company.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

They are trying to make sense of the tragedy that has befallen them, how a text like Joshua 23 and Joshua 24 would go a long way towards explaining their fate while retaining faith in Yahweh.

他们想要解释降临在他们身上的悲剧，章节如《约书亚书》第23和24章就花很大力气,来解释他们的命运，同时保持对耶和华的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Faulkner ties the three levels of individual psychology, social history and tragedy into a whole.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The greatest tragedy of American history arguably is that this struggle could not be decided by debate.

美国历史上最大的悲剧可以说是,这场斗争不能由辩论来决定

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I will continue to do anything I can to help rebuild this city and support the families and animals who have been affected by this tragedy."

VOA: special.2010.05.17

When we look at the death of Socrates, do we think of it as a tragedy, as a moral tragedy, ? a just man sentenced to death by an unjust law?

当我们读到苏格拉底之死，我们是否会认为那是一场悲剧，道德悲剧，一名正义之士被不公的法律判处死刑？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some serious trauma and tragedy for the rest of the community."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Katrina was not only a tragedy, it was an envrionmental catastrophe as well.

卡特里娜飓风不仅带来了一场悲剧，同时它也是一场环境灾难。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

The only tragedy connected with the X-15 program happened in nineteen sixty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

It's a little bit like Aristotle's idea of catharsis, which can be understood in a variety of ways, but Milton at the end of Samson Agonistes understands it in one way when he says, Now we have as a result of this tragedy "calm of mind, all passion spent."

这有点像亚里士多德的精神发泄法理论，我们可以通过各种方法来理解，但是米尔顿在《力士参孙》一书的结尾,有另一种理解，他写道，这个悲剧使我们拥有了,“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 date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

If you like comedy, don't watch a tragedy.

如果你喜欢喜剧，就不要去看悲情片。

It depends on 实战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But his life was filled with tragedy as well as success.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

In both movies, Magnificent Amberson and Citizen Kane, that sort of tragedy that changes the past. Now you have the reality which is sort of bleaker.

在两部电影中，《安巴逊家族》和,《公民凯恩》，都有种悲剧的概念,改变了过去，现在你觉得,现实有点黯淡。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Elinor Ostrom showed how local decision making can lessen the tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

That was supposed to be a tragedy that, in some manuscript drafts that we still have today -- in some manuscript drafts, he titled this prospective tragedy Paradise Lost and in other drafts Adam Unparadised.

他打算写一部悲剧，在一些目前还存留的草稿中,我们看到弥尔顿将这部要写的悲剧命名为,《失乐园》，在另外一些草稿中又叫做《亚当失乐园》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some experts say the operation also helped prevent an environmental tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

So, it's a real tragedy that the world had lost that.

所以，这个世界失去了那段影像真是一个悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Like no tragedy has happened to me yet.

就像没有悲剧曾经降临在我身上。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选