Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

That's a fairly common-sense idea, but it's important to define it, and I call that the common-sense law.

十分常识性的概念，但定义它非常重要，所以我叫它“常识定律“

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

She's stuck to a -- this is remarkable: she's stuck to a "marble venomed seat smeared with gums of glutinous heat."

这个值得注意，她坚持坐在,涂满胶状树胶的邪恶石头凳子上“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The shoe is small -- a European size thirty-seven, or a women's size seven in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

false It's going to return true if it's a PAIL-indrome and false if it's a PAL-indrome. And it says true. Now maybe you're bugged by this.

如果不是会问的话则是,返回的是真值,那么你可能会觉得这个很烦。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A well-known example was when women's education groups objected to a talking Barbie that declared, among other things, "Math class is tough!"

VOA: special.2009.04.06

He gives an example--I like to-- he gives an example from a book that-- or it's a collection-- You know this?

他举了个例子...我想要...,他举了一本书上的例子,或者说是本作品集,有谁知道这本作品集吗

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That's not what we have. It's a state-driven measure. High standards,challenging work for young people across the country.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Here's a candidate--here's an outcome with two entrants in it, an extreme right-wing guy and an extreme left-wing guy.

这是个候选人,有两个加入者,一个极端左派的人和一个极端右派的人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

A woman who graduated from a women's college in nineteen fifty-three remembers hearing her as a graduation speaker.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

It turns out there's a new function strlen S-T-R-L-E-N that you probably have not used yet called strlen, S-T-R-L-E-N, programmers early on and still like to be succinct but communicates sufficiently what they mean.

结果这里有个新的函数,你可能没有使用过，叫做，早期的和现在的程序员喜欢简洁地,但是能充分的传达他们的意思。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Bryan McNulty, the communications director, says Bates has offered a three-year bachelor's degree since the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And you remember Yeats in "The Second Coming," - there's a beast that's kind of-- He doesn't know what it is, and here he's saying something similar.

你们记得在二次圣临里“,有提到一只野兽-,他不知道那到底是什么，在此他表达相似的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A list of American colleges and universities that offer financial aid to foreign students can be found at edupass.org -- e-d-u-p-a-s-s dot o-r-g.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

But,he viewed "hereditary monarchy" as the unique port of salvation- that's a very religious image--that could save France.

不过,他把"世袭君主政体",当作是唯一的避风港,那是很有宗教色彩的,它可以拯救法国

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

America's third party at that time -- The People's Party -- had a difficult decision to make.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Ours a much more visual-- it's a much more analytical-- type of approach to music and it has its pros and cons.

我们的这种更加可观赏的,更易分析的音乐创作途径,自然也有正反两面

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

C.D.C. official Janet Collins says breathing secondhand smoke has immediate harmful effects on a person's heart-and-lung system.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Muscovy had already conquered the Volga basin in the 16th century, where the nomadic Tatars were, T-A-T-A-R-S.

6世纪时莫斯科公国已经征服了伏尔加盆地,游牧鞑靼民族住的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But learning so much of it in such a short time, that's a big scramble -- and they have to know it from memory."

VOA: special.2011.07.11

And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But when she's a-spittin' like a wildcat,a man's got no call to live with her."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The knight's move--which is just a playful way of describing where the window is, right-- the knight's move is nonetheless a kind of wound or damage. So, even as it's the prototype for originality, it's also something very disturbing and harmful.

一位骑士走过，这只是开玩笑地描述,窗户的位置，对，骑士的走过不可能造成,受伤或损害，所以，即使作为独创性的模板，它还是包含一些干扰和有害的成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's a six-month course of the Department of Wildlife, which is run by the government.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

This is the kind of story that has a moral. It's a feel-good story.

这是一个有寓意的故事，一个正面的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Here is a nineteen eighty-eight recording of a mans memories of his local general store.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

There's a mid-term exam halfway through and a final exam at the end, and there's a term paper which is due near the end of the course.

我们在学期中和学期末,分别会有期中考试和期末考试,在本学期快结束时要求写一篇学期论文

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He suggested offering a three-year bachelor's degree that would save money as well as time.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Well, what sublimation is-- A lot of these--It's a good question.

升华是指-,这是一个好问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The fact that our happiness is tied to others, the fact that we are tied to others in a web of empathy-- that's a wonderful thing about human nature.

我们的快乐与他人的相关连，我们通过同情网络和他人相关连-,那是人性的美妙之处。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选