Ted Nash chose to express the tragic side of the artist's life with this composition.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She didn't hear the original command. Or did she just mishear in some very tragic version of the telephone game.

但是夏娃并没有亲耳听到上帝的命令,也许她从电话恶作剧中，听到了另一个版本。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Recent cases included the tragic case of a fifteen-year-old girl whose family moved from Ireland.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What did she think about the tragic loss of her sight and hearing?

VOA: special.2009.11.15

It was a tragic--It was crushed by the weights of the electrodes.

是个悲剧,被电极的重量给压死了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The story shows the tragic results of uncontrolled suspicion and fear.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Despite the tragic accident, excitement is in the air as South Africa hosts the World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

But the Greek tragic view does not take either of these routes, which I regard as a relatively easy escape from the problem compared to the way the Greeks got stuck.

但希腊的悲剧意识对这两种套路都不接受,在我看,相对而言,与其困扰于此,古希腊人更愿意逃避这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Torrey says he was also intrigued by the tragic history of Machu Picchu.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But he always remembered his fear as he listened to the radio broadcasts about this tragic event.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

This tragic play remains one of the greatest, and perhaps most famous, love stories ever told.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

It is a tragic love story about black Americans along the coast of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

But he called the raid tragic. He also expressed hope that the situation might be a chance to seek progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

And,he said it remains the most tragic social problem in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And in some cases the counterfeits cause tragic problems of their own.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The young lovers secretly marry, but their story has a tragic ending.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Geithner said that one of the most tragic elements of the economic crisis has been the lack of protections for taxpayers and consumers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

U.N.spokesman Gordon Weiss tells VOA News the Sri Lankan government is also not doing enough to avert such tragic losses of civilian life.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

The president the son of a Kenyan father spoke of his personal connection to Africa's tragic past.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

The president said the fact that the violence occurred in U.S.territory makes it even more tragic.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

(MOIVE SOUND) The "Shutter Island" cast also features Michelle Williams as the Marshal's tragic wife.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

He says environmentalists have been repeating the same tragic predictions for decades.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

In the first of the two tragic events, survivors report the boat capsized early Saturday night when the smugglers began to push passengers over board into the waters off the coast of Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"The death of five brave soldiers in a single incident is a terrible and tragic loss and I want to pay tribute, as the whole House will, to their professionalism and to their courage and service,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"This is a tragic thing," "We came into this crisis without the authority and the tools necessary to contain the damage to the American economy posedby the very severe pressures working through the financial system."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24