"And the Super Bowl for decades has been the one time that you are actually interested in watching the ads.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

None of us have seen a case of smallpox, it hasn't existed in the world for many decades now.

我们没人见过天花,在这个世界上它已经被消灭几十年了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You have 500 miles of canals dug just in the middle decades of the seventeenth century.

仅在十七世纪中叶,这里就开凿了,五百英里的人工运河

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Last year,several scientists had expressed doubt about the possibility of the large Himalayan glaciers melting in a few decades.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

The subprime mortgage market was bringing people into the mortgage market who in prior decades would not have been involved-- would not have had any mortgage.

次贷抵押信贷市场,把十多年前那些,不能获得抵押贷款的人,带进了抵押信贷市场

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She spent decades studying and living among Central African chimpanzees in the wild and now campaigns to protect the endangered species.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Four decades in a row the production of American cotton nearly doubled.

美国棉花产量翻倍的传奇,持续了四十年

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Clinton dismissed a reporter's suggestion that the housing issue has driven U.S.-Israel relations to their lowest point in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Then, also emphasizing in the case of smallpox, how even after the scientific discovery was made, it took many, many decades for people to be able to produce the vaccine in large enough quantities and distribute it, so that you could think about making an impact on global prevalence of the disease.

同时重点就天花疫苗的发展展开了讨论,而即便当科学发现了天花病毒,仍然过了许多年,人类才能够,大规模生产并使用天花疫苗,由此你们可以了解到,在全球范围内,疫苗给天花以致命一击

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The negotiations led to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of sectarian violence in the British province.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

I think it's the most important revolution in finance of the last couple decades.

我认为行为金融学是近几十年中,金融学所发生的最重要的革命

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We urgently need to treat the wounds of war that has alienated the communities in the island for almost three decades."

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

Now think of another product in American history that doubled every decade for four decades, and then imagine that that product became the country's, without question, absolute largest export.

思考下在美国历史中有没有另一种产品曾,有如此辉煌的成就,那么这个产品将毫无疑问地,成为美国最大的出口产品

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It said Gilo is an integral part of Jerusalem and that building in the neighborhood has continued unabated for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Whether you measure it in terms of dollars of value added or in terms of returns, Yale has the best record among colleges and universities for the past two decades.

不管是从增值的角度,还是从收益率的角度衡量,过去20年里,耶鲁的表现是所有高校中最好的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Mr.Zuma urged politicians to be responsible in their speeches as the country tries to recover from decades of racial discrimination and violence.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The options are a very useful technology for managing risks and I think that we'll see a rapid--Over the next few decades, we'll see rapid expansion in the scope of options contracts traded on the exchanges.

期权是管理风险的,一个非常有用的技术,我认为在往后的几十年,交易市场上,我们将会看到期权合同的迅速发展

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the nearly two decades since the Cairo conference, at least 17 countries have liberalized their abortion laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

We've gotten, over the last two decades in particular, very sophisticated about taking pictures inside the body allowing doctors to look inside the body and predict things about our internal physiology that they couldn't predict just by looking at us or putting their hands on us.

特别是在近二十年当中,我们对体内造影已经十分熟悉,它使医生能够看到身体内部,并预测我们体内的生理变化,而仅仅是通过,视诊或者触诊是不能预测这些变化的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Aravind Eye Hospital has conducted mobile eye camps in villages across Tamil Nadu over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That is the largest parliamentary majority since Hungary's first democratic elections in 1990, following decades of Communist rule.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Japan hasn't seen,in Japan, we haven't seen the actual nominal GDP growth for as long as two decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

In the last three decades the lakes have shrunk to less than half of their original size.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Athens News Agency journalist Harry Theofanous says he cannot recall a worse crisis in the past two-decades.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Decades after the dangers of tobacco first became known, the strongest anti-smoking legislation in U.S.history has been signed into law by the president.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

The founder of electronics maker Kyocera spent decades in the technology industry and served as chairman of one of Japan's top telecommunications companies.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

The government plans to hold Burma's first election in two decades next year, but the new constitution ensures the military stays in power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

This means,he says,that the Philippines, the southern part of Vietnam and Cambodia will be hit with more storms than experienced in recent decades.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

(Speaking) Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10