The Great Lakes Historical Shipwreck Society works to preserve and explain the history and importance of the area's wrecks.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Aristotle tells us he is slow to act unless something of great importance is at stake.

亚里士多德告诉我们,此类人的行动缓慢。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If we had perfect financial markets-- and this is intuitive-- and I don't know how obvious this is, it's obvious to me, but it's an intuitive point of great importance-- nobody would suffer alone.

如果我们有完善的金融市场-,这就很直观-,我不知道这有多直观，至少我觉得显而易见，这是一个很重要的观点-,也就是，没有人会独自承担风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

At the U.N.climate change summit in Copenhagen last year, Senegal's president,Abdoulaye Wade, stressed the importance of planting the "Great Green Wall."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The concept of individual freedom has had no importance in these great majorities of cultures in human history.

在人类历史的大多数文化中,个人自由这个理念显得无足轻重

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选