But research continues to give new life to one of the oldest and most widely used drugs in the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And these are all spoken of in terms that are analogous to terms used to describe God as the shepherd of his flock of Israel and in control of life and death and so on.

这些说到的过程,和对于上帝的形容相类似，我们形容上帝为,他的“以色列族群的牧羊人“,控制着他们的生死。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

It's a switch that from outside can be used to change the life of a cell.

这种来自外源的变化能够改变细胞的状态

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

She settled into forms she used for the rest of her life.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"He was young and I had a very good time drawing his picture because I used a lot of reference material that were paintings made of him at different times in his life.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

We used a lot of the stuff from real life." That insight into the funnier side of pregnancy includes the sudden and insatiable hunger that,in the film, strikes Zoe when she spies a pot of stew bubblingon the stove in Stan's kitchen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30