Baghdad voter Mohamad el-Bayati is one of the many voters who say security was a key issue in making his choice.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

I think there was another key one in the mid-90s when we said: we have to go in the server business.

还有一个重要决定是在90年代中期做的,那就是进入服务器行业。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Another key event in the making of modernism is the great migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.

现代创作的另一个重要事件,是非裔美籍从南部乡下,往城市化的北部的大移民。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The general referred to that goal at a low-key ceremony during which he formally took on his new duties Monday in Kabul.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

I've put it in the key-- what's called the bass clef here-- and it's in a major key.

我已经标好了调性,这个叫低音谱号,它采用的是大调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Al-Shabab,which currently controls key towns in southern and central Somalia, was founded several years ago by al-Qaida-trained Somali radicals and is virulently anti-West.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself-- almost needs no justification.

但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的-,几乎无需辩解。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Prosecutors have expressed disappointment that another key suspect in the Srebrenica massacre, former Bosnian-Serb commander Ratko Mladic,remains at large, most likely in Serbia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he's one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.

它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象，正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的，贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But that goodwill will be tested during three key summits Mr.Obama will be attending in London, on the French-German border, and in Prague.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Again, each of them seems to represent, in a superior way, the key components of the human soul, the appetitive, the war-like or spirited, and the rational.

每一位角色，似乎都代表着，较优秀的人类灵魂的关键构成要素，欲望，战士精神，以及理性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As key mid-term elections near in November, the immigration issue is likely to draw more attention.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

We find--examples of this thought that brain is the key in all places.

我们找到了很多案例来证明,大脑确实是最关键的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

South Korea Unification Minister Hyun In-taek is Seoul's key official on North Korea policy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Occasionally, you get things written in triple meter and in a minor key--minor key.

偶尔,有一些是由三拍子,和小调组成

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

As a result,the United States needs radar installations and anti-missile launch sites in key regions, particularly in Central Europe to counter the growing missile threat from Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.

于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

King Abdullah said he has urged the president to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, saying that is the key to resolving all the other problems in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

We'll be in the key of E-flat.

用降E调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

(Test) The U.N.Secretary-General says he is "optimistic" a climate-change agreement can be reached in Copenhagen that will include specific recommendations on key elements that will take effect immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The report says the U.S.military's Djibouti-based Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is currently installing a Maritime Security and Safety Information System in key positions along the Kenyan coast.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Insurance companies would no longer be allowed to deny health coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions a key point of weakness in and public anger with the current system.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

But some Democratic lawmakers contend the long-term key to defeating the insurgency in Afghanistan is not to send more foreign troops, but to speed training of Afghan security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Iran is played host to a high-profile summit of two key war-torn neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a bid to put an end to conflicts that rage along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Late this year, scientists and politicians are to gather in Copenhagen for a key global climate-change summit in an effort to thrash out a consensus on cutting heat-trapping greenhouse gasses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

It was a low-key arrival in a chilly rain.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

The man in the newly released video , is identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who blew himself up inside a key U.S base in an eastern Afghan region bordering Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

That is not acceptable. And I will not tolerate it." The president spoke after a lengthy meeting with key cabinet and agency heads involved in all aspects of aviation security and counter-terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

U.S.officials hope it can be convened before key big-power discussions of the Iranian nuclear issue begin in New York during the third week of this month, on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly session.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11