Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But nonetheless, Peter the Great creates this huge empire that will have over the long run, an enormous influence in European affairs.

即使如此,彼得大帝还是一手创造了,这个庞大的帝国,长远来看将对欧洲事务产生极大影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the court did not consider the question of existing laws designed to prevent foreign influence in the political process.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

The corrupt clergy of today, under the malign influence of the horrible Archbishop Laud, are interested only in satisfying their own greed.

如今腐败的牧师们，在可憎的大主教劳德的恶意中伤下，只关心满足他们自己贪婪的口腹之欲。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Well, I don't know. It seems to me that literary influence is not at all unlike sort of speaking or writing in the wake of a founder of discursivity, but we can let that pass.

我不知道，我觉得,文学的影响力和演讲和写作的影响力还是有相似之处的,尤其是在散漫性被发现之后，但是我们可以不谈这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They approved of using mass media and mass production as an influence in their art.

VOA: special.2010.09.05

In the same period,there is clear-cut,unmistakable, oriental influence on Greek pottery and other things that they make.

在同一时期,有明显的证据表明,希腊受到了东方的影响,这表现在他们制作的陶器和其他器物上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He was seventy-two years old. Cecil B.DeMille,Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B.Mayer are remembered for their excellent movies and their continuing influence in the motion picture industry.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

It's post-Christian in the sense that it's hard to live in America without having some kind of exposure to Christianity and without seeing its influence on our society,on our politics, on our culture and our art,and that sort of thing.

一方面，生活在后基督教的美国不可能,不接触到基督教文化,不可能忽视它对社会，政治，文化，艺术等方面的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Ugandans mourned his death. He was an important influence in the community.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Pound goes to work on Yeats, goes to work on his poetry and helps modernize him, although I think in lots of ways the influence went just as much the other way.

庞德转而研究叶芝和他的诗,并帮助他往现代主义转变，尽管我认为在很多方面,是叶芝影响了庞德。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

China's influence in the world has increased with its fast-growing economy.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

And if you do show improvement, that will very significantly influence and emerge in terms of the impact it has on your overall semester grade.

并且如果你显示了进步，那将会有很显著地影响,跟出现影响在你整个学期的分数上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It became a powerful influence in popular music.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

His magic is directed at the metadivine realm, trying to tap into its powers. It's not directed at the gods. It's trying to tap into the ultimate source of power to use that power to influence the gods in a particular way or protect oneself against the gods.

这种法术的对象是超神领域，试图获得其中的神力,它不直接针对神，而是通过接近,神力的源头来获得力量，用特殊的方式影响众神,或保护某人不受到神的伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He was an important influence in the community.

VOA: special.2011.05.31

I think what we do in America whatever people might say about we're on a way up or we're on a way down, we still have vast power in team influence on what's going in this world Absolutely. -with the kind of financial and leadership role.

我认为我们在美国所做的,无论人们如何评价,我们在前进或在倒退，我们仍然拥有巨大的力量,对于世界的发展有着极大的影响,绝对是，-因为我们拥有巨大的金融实力,以及领导作用。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Boxers hated all foreign influence in China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

So in a sense you have enormous amount of influence.

所以在某程度来说,你有着巨大的影响力。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Peter DeShazo says regardless of whether Fidel or Raul Castro has the greater influence in Cuban affairs, one thing is certain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

It was, above all, the influence of the classics, Aristotle and Cicero in particular, that Hobbes regards as an important cause for the recent civil war and the regicide of Charles I.

霍布斯认为，正是受这些古典作品的影响，尤其是亚里士多德和西塞罗的作品，才导致了最近内战的爆发,和对查理一世国王的处决。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Rondeli said an important message of Clinton's trip is that it shows the United States has not abandoned Georgia, and will remain an influence in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Most of the influence,I suspect, was going one way in those days- from the more advanced civilization of the east to the Greeks.

而且我怀疑,绝大多数影响,在那些日子中是单边流向的,从东方更高级的文明流向希腊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Zbigniew Lewicki, a specialist in American studies at the University of Warsaw, told the Polish Radio External Service that there is also concern about Russia's perceived attempts to increase its influence in former Soviet satellite states, including Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

But I suspect that that's probably a little bit too quick, because really there are two different ways in which facts could influence our behavior.

但我怀疑也许这有点太快了，因为事实上有两种方式,事实可以影响我们的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"The powers that have an influence in Iraq are in a much better situation than they were two years ago and certainly they will encourage, will coax,will put some pressure on the Iraqi politicians to get this done,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

And so it would seem to be Dante's use of the image that has a primary influence here on Milton, but, as we might expect, there is a complication in the way that Milton uses this particular image.

因此但丁对这个比喻的应用,对弥尔顿有最深刻的影响，但是，如我们期待的，这里弥尔顿在运用,这个特别的比喻的方式上，有一点复杂。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选