But given time and given the leadership that each of you can provide, the torn fabric of society will be woven together, stitch by stitch, choice by choice,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And x0 I'm going to reduce to 0 by choice of my origin being here.

0 等于零,因为我把原点取在这里

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

There is no choice. He can be buried only in the lone prairie in a narrow grave six by three.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

The woman's objection, as the poem unfolds, is summed up by his choice, the father's choice, to bury the child himself.

这首诗里揭示的这个女人的反对，从这个父亲的选择中就可以总结出，亲自埋葬这个孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is a complex system of public and private insurance plans, regulated by the government but still giving individuals a good deal of choice.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

All right. - So you have the choice of becoming involved or not by pushing the fat man. - All right.

好了，-所以你有权选择是否把胖子推下去,从而牵涉其中，-好了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For weeks, South Korean officials delayed expected announcements it would join, but experts say they had no other choice after Monday's underground nuclear weapons test by the North.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Remember, they were made in the image of God And they learn that they have moral autonomy by making the defiant choice, the choice for disobedience.

记住，他们是依照上帝的模样而创造,他们也意识到自己有自主的道德,通过做出忤逆的选择，选择违背。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The choice for the 2009 Peace Prize took the world by surprise.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

We also saw in that numbers game last time that in some games, but by no means all games, in some games this process actually converges to a single choice.

我们同样可以发现,在某些博弈中,不是所有的博弈,迭代剔除劣势策略,最终会导致唯一的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

We do not have the choice,he said. Mr.Sarkozy's remarks coincided with the publication of a new report by two Nobel economists, Joseph Stiglitz and Armatya Sen, that looks at non-traditional ways at measuring social progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

There's no reason why these two attributes had to be proportional, but they are proportional and they are equal by choice of units and you can ask, "Is this just an accident or is it part of a big picture?"

我们不知道这两个质量为何成比例,但它们确实成比例,而且如果选择合适的单位还会相等,你会问,"这种情况纯属偶然,还是这只是物理学大体系的冰山一角"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And faced with the high tuition costs at private Islamic schools, many Muslim parents elect,in the end, to home school their children - a choice,Haddad notes, often made as well by families of other religious faiths.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

I believe the choice should be clear." Though foreign affairs committee approval, which occurred by voice vote, is a significant step toward a vote by the full House of Representatives, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act remains subject to consideration by two other House panels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28