Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico, and a land of criminality, the reform school.

他的信从新墨西哥这片西部的土地而来，还是寄宿学校这种犯罪滋生地。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,

在这门课上，我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品，比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图，

有趣的课程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He suggested that Western critics had never known real hunger, and wondered if they had ever watched their children go hungry.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The conversation on human rights and said "You know what, this is really the way you have framed it. A very western concept and it's coming of your enlightenment.

在关于人权的对话中，非西方国家的人们会说,“看吧，这只是你们的想法而已,是西方化的概念,这是在你们的文明背景下产生的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Pittsburgh is located in western Pennsylvania in the area where three rivers meet the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Some aristocrats began to put on western style wigs, such as you could find at the court of Versailles.

一些俄国贵族开始戴上了西方风格的假发,这样的假发你可以在凡尔赛的宫廷里面见到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Most people around the world who know of them want to benefit from the achievements of western science and technology.

世界上了解西方的人,大多想从西方科学和技术成就中,获得利益

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That year a French biologist who had been studying reefs in the western Atlantic discovered that they are animals.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

We're going to go to the realm of Western jazz here and I'm going to pick on Chuck Mangione.

我们来看看西方的爵士乐领域,我选了查克·曼卓林

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Western countries, and especially the United States say, "We have a big pharmaceutical industry that develops new drugs.

西方国家，尤其是美国宣称，我们拥有研发新药品的大制药业。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It grew into one of the largest community festivals in the western states, complete with the world's largest strawberry shortcake.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

In the 1830s 600,000 immigrants came to the United States, almost entirely from Western Europe; in the 1840s alone 1.5 million; and in the 1850s,almost 3 million more.

十九世纪三十年代,约有六十万人移居美国,几乎全部来自西欧,仅在四十年代,就有一百五十万移民,而在五十年代,又多了三百万

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

at the end of their four years, that they feel cultured and familiar with, um, I guess the Western world,

让学生在四年的学习之后具备一定的文化素养，能够熟知西方世界及其文化。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

In fact this treatise is often described, or maybe even most commonly described, as the Western tradition's greatest argument against censorship.

事实上，这本著作常常被描述为，或是可能广泛地被认为，是英国传统上最伟大的与控制相对立的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

It will be a big quote from India in terms of buying arms from the US and more from western markets.

印度通过向美国购买武器,或者向西方市场购买更多武器,来增进印美关系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I'm Tony Riggs. Today,Larry West and I tell the story of country and western singer and songwriter, Hank Williams.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

So your average highly educated Western parent does give their children feedback -do give their children feedback based on what they say.

受到普通高等教育的西方家长,确实会根据儿童所说的内容,而给予他们反馈

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of death in western countries.

冠状动脉疾病,是西方国家主要致死性疾病之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选