"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Again, the autonomous Greek polis Glaucon Adeimantus that Plato and Glaucon, Adeimantus and others would have known came to an end.

自治的希腊城邦,一如柏拉图,和其它人所熟知的,已走到终点。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They shared fun with firecrackers, which was a disastrous thing which nearly brought the experiment to an end.

让他们一起玩烟花，结果变成一场大灾难,差点害得连实验都做不下去了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

By the nineteen sixties, Les Paul and Mary Ford's series of hits came to an end and they later ended their marriage.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Then we see that when this culture comes to an end, it is accompanied by people fleeing, getting away from the Mycenaean world.

随后我们看到当这个文明走到了尽头,随之而来的是民众的背离,人们从迈锡尼逃离

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Lee hoped for a final, decisive blow that would bring the war to an end.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

It promises something like the power of God as he brings the shattering close of the entire Christian narrative to an end at the Last Judgment and beyond.

它承诺了类似上帝权力,上帝为所有基督教徒带来了令人震惊的结局,在最后审判日及以后的日子，以叙述方式带来了结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

However,one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Suppose we put somebody in a state of suspended animation, cool their body down so that the various metabolic processes come to an end.

假设我们让某人,进入假死状态，将他们的身体降温,所有的代谢过程都停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Athnaise's last week in the city was coming to an end.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Life for Hobbes is an exercise in continual willing and continual choosing that may be temporarily interrupted but can never come to an end except with the end of life itself.

霍布斯的生活就是一种长期意愿的实施,和长期选择，有可能会被暂时打断,但是永远不会结束,除非他自己想那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is running for re-election, has lost support for not bringing violence to an end.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

It's just tonic or maybe throwing an anchor overboard to bring this ship to an end-- whatever sort of analogy or visual imagine you want to bring to it, but it's--the piece has ended.

它是这样，主音或者说放锚让船停下来-,无论是怎样的意境你都会感觉到，但是，这段乐曲结束了。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"His extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end," "The extraordinary good that he did lives on."

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Some people like to use an arrow, and the arrow points in the direction of the more electronegative end.

也可以用箭头，箭头指向,带负电的一极。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

NASA plans to retire the shuttle fleet, bringing US manned space flight to an end, for the forseeable future.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In other words, you are an end and not a means to me unless in fact I'm exploiting you and instrumentalizing you. Right?

换言之，对我来说，你不是手段，而是目的,除非我在剥削你，或把你工具化，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"I think it is too premature and too early for us to say we have come to an end of the pandemic influenza worldwide,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Takes a start and an end point, just going to bind local variable names start and end to those pieces.

有一个开始和结束点，就是去把局部的变量的名字,和这些点进行绑定。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That is because 'terrorism' is but a tactic -- a means to an end, which in al-Qaida's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

So then, going from the initial to final states with a red path, ou start with an isobaric processand then you end with an isothermal process.

因此沿着,这条红色路径，你从一个等压过程开始,以一个等温过程结束。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But this was the year many thought that futility would come to an end.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

The proper way to draw a vector is to draw an arrow that's got a beginning and it's got an end.

画矢量的正确方法是,画一个有起点和终点的箭头

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But he fears that could all be coming to an end as the massive oil slick from the Deep Water Horizon drilling rig creeps toward the coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

So, for example, if we're to hold the time constant, this makes it a lot simpler of an equation, because what we can end up doing is actually crossing out this whole term here.

比如说，如果我们把时间,定为常数，这使得方程,大大简化，因为我们可以把,这一项划掉。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In my view Iran's nuclear program is a means to an end.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

And what that a matter is that the War put an end to the New Deal.

重要的是,战争让新政退出舞台。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Democratic Senator Arlen Specter of Virginia saw his 30-year Senate career come crashing to an end Tuesday night, losing to Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak in a Democratic primary vote.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

It's saying everybody has to be counted as an equal even though at the end of the day, one can be sacrificed for the general welfare.

基本观点是，众生皆平等,虽然不得已之时，为了大众的福祉，个体还是可以被牺牲的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Those who profess to love the Union are not so anxious to preserve slavery, while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge in all their actions that its continuance will put an end to this accursed system.

那些宣称热爱联邦的人,并不急着想保存奴隶制,同时那些反战的人,他们以行动昭告天下,战争会持续到这种被人唾骂的制度结束

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选