But visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas can still get a sense of their historic importance.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

They are creatures of majesty and dignity And they are of importance to, objects of concern for, the god who has created them.

他们是庄严而有尊严的生物,他们也非常重要，是关怀的对象，被那些创造他们的上帝关怀。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So there's a new recognition of importance of films.

所以人们对电影的重要性有了新的认识。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And,it was called The City of the Big Shoulders or City of Broad Shoulders because of its importance to the nation.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

All of this is Darwinian thinking and, I think, increasingly will be central in importance in the twenty-first century.

这就是达尔文所思考的，我认为，这在二十一世纪会越来越重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Mary knew the importance of what had been established -- the first independent school for the higher education of women.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The writers on the syllabus consistently try to imagine a way to make those claims, make those claims for the primacy and the importance of what they do.

大纲里的作家一直在尝试,设想出一种方法来提出要求，把他们写的书放在首要地位,使他们的要求得到重视。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

By her example, she taught all Americans about the importance of one's beliefs and the power of truth.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The importance of this painting is who is being painted and, more than that, who is getting Rembrandt to paint this.

这幅画作的重点在于谁被画了进来,更重要的是,是谁让伦勃朗画这幅画的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But the fifty-two pages also talk about the importance of diplomacy, development and coalition-building to reach policy goals.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Now in music as you probably know-- we've already talked a little bit about this-- we have the importance of the beat.

你们也许知道在音乐中节拍很重要,我们已经讨论过一些,节拍的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Government,community and business leaders have pushed for teaching young people about the importance of saving, budgets and the true cost of credit.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

So I talked about some of "the greatest hits": the importance of gratitude, the importance of physical exercise.

于是我谈到了一些热门话题：,感恩的重要性，体育锻炼的重要性。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The F.C.C.says the court "in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet."

VOA: special.2010.04.09

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

President Obama talked this week about the importance of building exports as a way to create jobs and economic growth at home.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

And a sign of the humans' importance is the fact that Humans are said to be created in the image of God, And this occurs in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

另一个表明人类重要性的事实是,人类是依着上帝的模样创造的，这是《创世纪》第1章第26节中讲到，“让我们依着自己的模样造人，与我们相仿“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

On Tuesday the president gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

There was a severe crisis and so that again highlights the importance of having good bank regulation.

但这确实是一场严重的危机,也再一次强调了良好银行监管体系的重要性

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Finding themselves safely at home, it would be of no importance whether they had ever been away."

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Now here--here is the importance of assessing dietary behavior, and you guys are doing it on yourselves.

评估饮食行为的重点在于,你们要针对自己进行评估

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Green Summer program provided young people with hands-on experience and education on issues of environmental importance.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

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

Rod Curtis says that shows the importance of the new vaccine targeting both viruses at once.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

It's biological engines, right. Things that either produce or consume biological fuel to do different sorts of processes. Also, of course of key importance to understand what the, in that case, biological thermodynamics are.

但不只是我们制造的引擎,生物引擎也是如此,它们产生或消费生物燃料,来完成不同的过程，当然，这也是理解生物热力学的关键所在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

I think we all understand the importance of children growing up together and having the opportunity to work together to become friends, to learn the results of conflicts and to basically interact in a social environment.

我们都明白,孩子共同成长,有机会合作是很重要的,他们要成为朋友，要知道发生冲突的后果,要在社会环境里互动。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选