When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And the question of course for all universities is has This been a sensible thing to do?

当然对所有学校而言都有的问题是,这样做是否明智？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

How Brazilians finally decide on the most economically and environmentally sensible use of the Amazon forest will have a lot to do with agreements that emerge from the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

It's not clear that's even a sensible question The question is there's a height difference between you and me and him and her ? How do we explain that difference?

这问题还并不一定成立,问题是身高差异存在于,你、我、他之间,这如何解释？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In his speech, the president indicated he may be willing to cede some ground in the ongoing political battle over abortion, calling for a "sensible conscience clause" to be included in any potential new freedom of choice legislation, so that doctors and nurses who oppose abortions cannot be forced to perform them.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Well, one of the things I think is a sensible thing to do in life is look around at what others are doing, so I looked at what colleges and universities had done in terms of asset allocation.

一种我认为,比较实际的做法就是,关注周围的人在干什么,于是我观察了各个大学,是如何进行资产配置的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What's going to save us is if we inject a little bit more reality back in the model, we're going to get back a more sensible result.

我们要做的是,注入一些更符合现实的元素,这会让我们得到更符合直觉的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The HOLC said, that's a lot more sensible; so they demanded that that be done.

房主贷款公司认为这样合理得多,因此他们要求这么操作抵押贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

That would be putting it in a real frame and-- wouldn't that be more sensible, because you would be specifying the contract in real terms rather than money terms?

那样的话就是一种实物框架理念-,那样不是更合理吗，因为在你拟定合约时,会更倾向于用实物而非货币来计算？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选