There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.

它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If you decide to take this course, get a hold of the materials for next Tuesday, do listening exercises one and nine through eleven.

如果你选这门课,下个星期四准备好这些材料,做听音练习1和9到11

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The idea of the immigration model is that Hebrew settlement would have probably occurred at about the same time in the latter part of the thirteenth century The Hebrews could take advantage of all of these upheavals and the weakened hold of Egypt.

移民模型的观点是,希伯来人的定居可能发生了,大约也在十三世纪后半叶,希伯来人会利用所有这些激变,以及埃及的衰落。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Remember Egypt had control of this area but their grasp was weakening with the flood of people coming in from the sea and other migrations Their hold was weakening and the Hebrews would have been able to take advantage of that and enter in and occupy areas in the central highlands.

记住埃及曾控制这一地区但是它的控制逐渐削弱,由于人们从海上涌入及来其他地方的移民,他们的控制逐渐削弱,希伯来人将会利用这一点,他们进入并且占领了中央的高地。

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