The gold seekers quickly learned that most of the valuable areas of land had already been claimed by others.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

It's as if the commodity of the bride is deemed truly valuable only if it can be guaranteed pure and untouched.

这就好像新娘这件商品,只有在完全的纯净没有动过才是有真正价值的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

it's in thinking critically and applying the ideas that you get from reading that... really make it valuable.

学习文学能锻炼我们的批判性思维，我们还能将文学中体现的思想应用到现实生活中。这才是文学的价值所在。

文学是灵魂的方式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Walking is safe. And,it is said be to as valuable for one's health as more intense forms of exercise like jogging.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

OK. The process of writing is exercising both halves of your brain, and it's actually helping you learn, and so taking notes is really valuable thing.

好的，记笔记的过程同时锻炼了,你的左右脑，而且实际上帮助了你的学习，所以记笔记真的是一件特别有价值的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

As the last speakers of a language die off, the valuable information contained within a language also disappears.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Again, it's a nice lens for asking yourself, what are the things that are most valuable to you?

再一次，这是一个很好的问你自己，什么事情对你来说最有价值的视角？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They would have to pay back loans with dollars that were more valuable than those they had borrowed.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.

懂得如何修车,对吗，如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑，性技巧，说一门或多门外语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

D.C.United won the M.L.S.Cup, the league championship, on the strength of a Most Valuable Player performance by Olsen.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

So an introduction is not only valuable for those of us who simply wish to acquire knowledge.

所以入门课不仅对那些,想获取知识的人很有价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Like I said, with the most valuable resource being the president's time, a lot of efficiently running White House time is spent on how to allocate that precious resource.

正如我所说，在白宫里,最宝贵的资源是总统的时间，很多高效运作的时间,都用于决定如何使用,这个宝贵的资源。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

But again, both are meaningful as well as valuable.

两者同样有意义有价值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It had a factory that made guns for the army and a supply center of valuable military equipment.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Actually, the automobile insurance is more important than the homeowners' insurance, even though homes are so much more valuable, because--I think that's because cars move and they drive around and they bump into each other.

实际上,尽管住宅要比汽车值钱的多,但是,汽车保险要远比,住宅保险重要,我觉得这是因为汽车是可以移动的,车主们开着车到处跑,容易相互碰撞

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Also,a valuable record of thousands of years of weather history will also be lost if the ice melts.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

You'd have four times as many companies but you might not have four times as much valuable innovation.

有的只是四倍数量的公司，但是,你能够有的有价值的创新想法却远远不够。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Foreign students represent a valuable resource, especially when public colleges and universities face budget cuts by states.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

So, dimensional analysis is extremely valuable in thermodynamics, and here is an example of it.

因此，量纲分析,在热力学力很有用，这里就是一个例子。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

Protein in the diet is valuable for a number of different reasons.

饮食中的蛋白质用处多多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"When the feces is sanitized, all the pathogens are inactivated and killed, it is a valuable fertilizer.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

In general, good programming style says you put in comments that are going to be valuable in helping you as a reader understand what's going on inside of the code.

通常来说，优秀的编码风格意味着,你要放进去的注释,在帮助代码阅读者,理解代码内部,是怎么工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But it was the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes who understood that chocolate could be a valuable investment.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So there's a return branch on every possible path through the code. And that's valuable, it's something you want to think about as your right your own.

所以代码中每条可能的路径,都会有一个返回值分支，这是非常有价值的,当你自己写程序的时候也应该考虑这件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He says knowing how to do this may be especially valuable if fossil fuel should become unavailable.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Most of us agree then, pleasure is intrinsically valuable; pain is intrinsically negative, unvaluable, has anti-value.

多数人都同意，快乐本身是好的;,痛苦本身是消极的，没有价值，有反价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For simplicity I'll talk about these views as though they say life per se is valuable.

因为我会简单地把这些观点描述成,生活本身是有价值的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选