The study found that those who received lower doses of steroids by mouth spent less time in the hospital.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

We looked last time at Saint Peter's declamatory speech in Lycidas, and we spent a lot of time on it.

我们上次读过了圣彼得在“利西达斯“中说的话，花了很长时间研究这段话。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Sure. So I spent some time over in England, so I know a little bit about how they practice law,

当然。我在英国呆了一阵子，所以我对英国的法律有一些了解，

美国式对比英国式 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Unlike other presidents of the late eighteen hundreds, William McKinley spent much of his presidency dealing with foreign policy.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

That woman's days were spent In ignorant good will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill.

那个女人的白天是在,天真无知的善意中度过，可她的夜晚却是在,声嘶力竭的争论中度过。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Massey's chairman had spent three million dollars to help elect him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

So instead of having 20% of people's time spent on their own projects, I make people hang out with each other.

我让大家都待在一块儿,而不是将那20%的时间，用在自己的工作上。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

She spent most of her life working to change traditional beliefs about art,artists and a woman's professional role in society.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

We're glad you spent this time with us, and we hope you have a blessed and peaceful day. Take care.

很开心你们能和我们一起度过这段时光,希望你们能度过一个幸福而平和的一天，保重。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Scientists think the largest dinosaurs would have to have spent thirty hours a day chewing and swallowing their food.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

But what the Greeks spent most of their time doing was fighting each other, one hoplite phalanx against another hoplite phalanx.

但是希腊人在大部分时间里都是方阵对抗,一个步兵方阵和另外一个步兵方阵对垒

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

For example,the father of Mexican-American musician Zack de la Rocha spent time working as an art director for Mister Chavez.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

So, you might have noticed that we will have spent about 6 and 1/2 lectures just getting to the point where we have only one electron, so we're only up hydrogen so far.

你们可能已经注意到了,我们已经花了６周半的时间,来仅仅是讲到单电子问题的情形，我们现在只研究氢原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard spent several days in a hospital-like center in Shanghai,China.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So you might say you were as busy as a bee if you spent your weekend cleaning your house.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Every country computes an estimate of how much is spent each year on consumption by the people who live in the country.

每个国家估算出,生活在该国国内居民,每年的消费额。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Though she never ran for office, she spent her life energetically working to improve the lives of people with developmental problems.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

We spent the first half of the semester,you might say, trying to get clear about the metaphysical facts.

我们将前半学期花在，试着弄清楚那些形而上学的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

After his two thousand five trial, the singer spent much of his time in Europe and the Middle East.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

We've talked--we spent a lot of time talking about that--the most popular music, virtually all of it--although after the fact people try to write it down.

我们说过，我们花了很长时间讨论过，大部分流行乐　,可以说是所有流行乐，虽然事实上人们确实会想把它写下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In two thousand nine, a team of scientists spent two months researching blue holes on Bahamian islands including Andros and Abaco.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

And while he spent time in Europe, he met Galileo and Rene Descartes.

在欧洲时，他遇到了伽利略和笛卡尔。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He spent the last week in February writing what he believed to be the true position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

She's a daughter of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and she represents that force that prevents Milton from forgetting all of the pagan and all of the classical literature that, of course, he had spent so much of his life reading.

她是记忆女神摩涅莫辛涅的女儿，她代表着力量,这种力量阻止着弥尔顿忘记所有的异教神,以及所有的古典文学，当然，那些文学他已经花了大半辈子阅读了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

New York Times reporter Alastair Macaulay has spent weeks travelling around the United States to see many different "Nutcracker" performances.

VOA: special.2010.12.22

It's a little bit like Aristotle's idea of catharsis, which can be understood in a variety of ways, but Milton at the end of Samson Agonistes understands it in one way when he says, Now we have as a result of this tragedy "calm of mind, all passion spent."

这有点像亚里士多德的精神发泄法理论，我们可以通过各种方法来理解，但是米尔顿在《力士参孙》一书的结尾,有另一种理解，他写道，这个悲剧使我们拥有了,“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The media and political observers have spent a lot of time examining Mister Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And the idea, again, is the kids who don't get rewarded say to themselves, "Well, I just spent time doing it, it must have an intrinsic value," while the children who get rewarded say, "I did it for the sticker. I did it for the toy.

再一次，没有得到奖励的孩子心里想，“我花了时间来做这件事，它一定是有内在的价值的”,而拿到奖励的小孩会说，“我是为了贴纸和玩具才做的”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选