Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor and whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Milton actually wrote that it was the duty, not just the right but the duty, of a nation to rise up and dethrone through execution an unjust, though legitimate, king.

弥尔顿实际上写道，站起来通过处决而废黜，一个尽管合法却不公正的国王是一个国家的义务,不仅仅是权利，而且还是义务。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He's accomplished his ministerial duty as a zealous and a politically oriented poet, and now he's earned the right to dally with false surmise.

他已经完成了牧师的职责,作为一名狂热的追逐政治的诗人，现在他已经得到了游荡在虚伪臆想之中的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The duty to determine criminal responsibility of the perpetrators of the assassination remains with the Pakistani authorities,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

But at the same time like real people, they can turn around and act in a way that is loyal and true above and beyond the call of duty.

但同时也与真人一样，他们也有完全不同的一面,在使命面前显示出忠诚和真实。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

French Prime Minister Fran?ois Fillon says it is the duty of the G-20 group of the world's largest developed and emerging economies next month to achieve concrete results in resolving the global economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

because you read the Bill of Rights, for example, The Declaration of Independence, citizens have a duty to put a new government if it is not serving well the people.

举个例子，如果你读《人权法案》,或者《独立宣言》,如果政府不够尽责,公民有权支持一个新的政府。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"And that's the duty of everyone who believes in justice and in deterring the gravest and most serious types of crimes that the United Nations was partially set up to prevent after the Second World War, and continues to fail to prevent."

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

they can be found to have breached their fiduciary duty, I'm on the hedge fund side and against the sort of company management side.

他们可以被发现存在渎职行为，我站在对冲基金的阵营上并且反对,公司管理的主张。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People called for jury duty at the D.C.Superior Court are asked to watch a video explaining the rules of jury service.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Would it be just to torture the suspect to get the information or do you say no, there is a categorical moral duty of respect for individual rights?

为了拿到情报而对他严刑拷打，是否合理,抑或你不赞同，你认为有尊重个人权利的绝对道德责任？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Many soldiers say the best way to honor those killed in the shooting is to continue doing their duty.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The citizen of the best regime he says must be able to sustain war if duty requires but only for the sake of peace and leisure.

最佳政体的公民，据他所说,如果有义务上的需要，必需要能承担战争,但目的必需仅限于为了和平与安逸。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

As we will hear later, Walter Cronkite had the sad duty of reporting that the young president was dead.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

s our duty as Americans to put you on the right track."

作为美国人我们有义务，And，it’,让你回归正道“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The publisher thought the press had a duty to place itself into stories to right wrongs where it could.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

It's always Milton's duty - this is the reason that he was put on this earth: to liberate a people from any such constraining customs.

弥尔顿的使命是,-他是为此才诞于世上：,将英格兰民族从所有抑制人的传统中解放出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self-defense and in the performance of official duty.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

It doesn't say that in the state law but that would be inferred as a duty.

州法中并没有明确规定,但可以从他们的义务中推测出来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Still, Ms.Halloran says M-rated games like Call of Duty, Halo and Fallout are the most popular games in the store.

VOA: special.2011.07.04

On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He was on duty when the passenger ship Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean in nineteen twelve.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

It is not a regime like ours devoted to maximizing individual liberties, but it is one that puts the education of its citizens, the education of its members, as its highest duty.

那不像我们的政体,只专注于极大化个人自由，而是一个,将公民教育，邦内成员教育，视为最高责任的理想国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Lincoln agreed. He felt it was his duty to go to honor the brave men who lost their lives to save the Union.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Marine Sergeant Colin Archipley returned to the United States after serving three tours of duty in Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.12.28

They felt it was God's will, and their duty,to spread American democracy and freedom across the continent.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

So the Institute of Medicine proposed that residents be required to get five continuous hours of rest for every sixteen hours on duty.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

In another famous illustration, "The Army of the Potomac - A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty."

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Mr. Zorn says he believes he has a duty as an American citizen and as a citizen of the world to take action against genocide.

VOA: special.2009.01.28