The United States says North Korea's missile test Monday has not altered its determination to bring Pyongyang back to talks on its nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

My path in life was fundamentally altered by just a handful of courses at this place and this was in fact one of them.

在哈佛所学的一些课程,从根本上改变了我的人生道路,这门课就是其中之一。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In this worldview, institutions--human institutions evolve only slowly over time and cannot be altered by abrupt human interventions.

在这个世界观里,制度尤其人文制度,发展得非常缓慢,而且不会被突然的人为干预改变

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Senator Kennedy was a champion of liberal causes, and over the course of his Senate career sponsored legislation that fundamentally altered worker rights, education funding, foreign policy and immigration law.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Not that, if we altered you, that that product would want to have forever.

不是那种，如果我们改变你，不是那种想永远拥有的产品。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But all of this is overthrown, "changed utterly," by the radical politics that altered Ireland during Yeats's lifetime, that announced the coming of modernity and that these two women themselves participated in centrally.

但这一切被推翻了，完全改变“,被叶芝时期的爱尔兰,的那场激进政治革命改变了，他宣告了现代的到来,这两个女人亲身参与其中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And if that's an appealing argument that you have to be in an altered mindset to do something like that, it suggests that people who find that argument convincing do think that they were acting immorally.

而如果只能用这样的辩词,说只有人精神状况不正常，才会干出那种事，这也就意味着，那些觉得该论证有说服力的人们,其实是认为他们行为是不道德的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He is also saying that the birth of Christ in Bethlehem was a nightmare for the world it altered, the world that it changed utterly a change that Yeats sees as the end now of the Christian Era and not its fulfillment.

他还说,基督在伯利恒的诞生,是一个噩梦，因为世界因此改变，彻底变了,叶芝把这个改变,看作基督时代的终结,而不是它的圆满。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选