Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

So, his letters come out of this western land, New Mexico, and a land of criminality, the reform school.

他的信从新墨西哥这片西部的土地而来，还是寄宿学校这种犯罪滋生地。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

to be familiar with the major works and thinkers and literature, music, and art of, uh, Western history.

了解西方历史上主要著作、思想家、文学、音乐和艺术。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He suggested that Western critics had never known real hunger, and wondered if they had ever watched their children go hungry.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

In fact this treatise is often described, or maybe even most commonly described, as the Western tradition's greatest argument against censorship.

事实上，这本著作常常被描述为，或是可能广泛地被认为，是英国传统上最伟大的与控制相对立的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Pittsburgh is located in western Pennsylvania in the area where three rivers meet the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

It will be a big quote from India in terms of buying arms from the US and more from western markets.

印度通过向美国购买武器,或者向西方市场购买更多武器,来增进印美关系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

So your average highly educated Western parent does give their children feedback -do give their children feedback based on what they say.

受到普通高等教育的西方家长,确实会根据儿童所说的内容,而给予他们反馈

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That year a French biologist who had been studying reefs in the western Atlantic discovered that they are animals.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

That's Western civilization, friends, and the Greeks are at the root of the whole thing.

这就是西方的文明,朋友们,而希腊人恰恰是这一切的源头所在

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of death in western countries.

冠状动脉疾病,是西方国家主要致死性疾病之一

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

And somebody once wrote many a superb champion of Longchamps, that is the racetrack, met their end on the table of some well-heeled person from the western fancy districts of Paris.

有人写过那些朗克汉普斯获的冠军赛马,朗克汉普斯是赛道名,它们的一生结束于一个,巴黎富人区的有钱人的餐桌上

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He learned Dutch-- and Dutch is a very difficult language-- in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.

他学会了荷兰语,荷兰语是很复杂的,在1696年,当土耳其战争发生的时候,或者其中一次战争时,他以一名大使馆军人的身份匿名去了西欧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It grew into one of the largest community festivals in the western states, complete with the world's largest strawberry shortcake.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

well, I think they, I should say that they're more open to Western ideas,

嗯，我觉得他们，应该说他们对西方的想法更开放，

中国学生的特点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

In many Western legal traditions, the right to life is strongly protected.

从西方传统法律观念来看，生命的权利受到法律的坚决保护。

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

We're somewhere having the western war in those places Those are hotspots religiously because they have so much religious significance.

我们就会有这样的战争冲突,它们是宗教的热点区域因为,它们有宗教意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.

但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I'm Tony Riggs. Today,Larry West and I tell the story of country and western singer and songwriter, Hank Williams.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

How many paintings are there of Peter crucified upside down, or depictions in Western Art?

西方美术史上，有多少画作的主题，是彼得被倒钉，或者有相关描述？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选