Voters in the last few years, and most recently in May, have rejected several ballot measures that would have raised taxes.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Now Susan Mayne, who is a Professor here in the School of Public Health, has done some very interesting work with an electronic device that can be passed over the palm of your hand and measures pigmentation in the hand as a way to assess vegetable intake in people.

苏珊·梅恩,我们公共卫生学院的教授,做了些值得关注的工作,通过电子设备,扫描你的手掌,测算其上色素沉淀,可以得出人们蔬菜的摄入量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The report says poaching and illegal horn trade has increased in South Africa even with new measures against it.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

These are called population measures because they refer to the whole population of possible outcomes and they measure the probabilities.

这些是用来度量总体的变量,因为他们对应的是总体中所有的结果,度量的是所有事件的概率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One of the big issues to discuss is how and when to reduce deficits and economic growth measures as conditions improve.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

If you've got four measures and different symbols, you're clearly subdividing the beat but hearing that as the beat.

如果你听出了四个小节并写出不同的符号,你就是将拍子细分了,并把细分后的当作了节拍

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The report says malaria could be eliminated if countries are serious about using proven control measures like insecticides and bed nets.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

The text says "harsh labor at mortar and brick," but the text says, "the more they were oppressed, the more they increased and spread out," so Pharaoh resorts to more drastic measures.

文中说，“和泥和造砖的艰苦劳动“,但是文中还说，“越发苦害他们，他们越发多起来，越发蔓延“,因此法老采取了更加残酷的手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It has a long name: the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

And since then there been at least 2 iterations of further stop gap measures, first European community adopted and then American are doing much the training.

至少有两次想要控制差距的措施，一个是欧盟采用的,然后美国也在作相似的训练工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But some schools say a federal law that only measures progress in math and reading has hurt language teaching.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

And he measures how much charge is required.

他也测量出了需要多少电流。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

She said China has taken its own measures to fight climate change and supports pressing ahead with international cooperation.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

he came into office, passed the stimulus bill, and a raft of other measures because the financial crisis demanded that he do so, and it seemed to have worked.

他上任后，通过了刺激法案，和其他一些列措施,因为金融危机要求,他这样做，似乎这样做也奏效了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The amount of ice cover and its thickness are two measures of the health of the Arctic Sea.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

If you say--you've got two measures here and you're writing particular symbols, we'll know that you heard this with the slower possibility.

如果你说,你听到了两个小节,而且你写下了一些符号,我们会知道你可能选择了较慢的节奏

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Professor Murray says the average farm in Haiti measures about one or one and a half hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

These units we call bars or measures and just to finish this off down here we would have three quarter notes of course, in this particular arrangement.

这些单元我们称之为小节,我们来把接下来的写完,这里我们有三个四分音符,当然,按照特定的安排

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He said he has ordered a report in thirty days on what,if any, additional safety measures and technologies should be required to prevent future spills.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

And then we'll go ahead and count some measures.

然后我们再开始数一下小节

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Officials say other measures include effective drunk driving laws and banning some alcohol advertising.

VOA: special.2011.02.16

We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The GMAT is a computer test that measures reading, mathematics and writing skills.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

They just elongated each measure by its same amount so we had harmony changing on each measure, and then in that middle section each chord was changing at the rate of two measures.

但它的基本形式没有改变，而在每个小节中和声都发生了改变，接着在中间的乐节，每个和弦每两小节改变一次。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The automated system also measures the temperature and color of freshly produced milk.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Now in the case of The Framingham Study they did bi-annual assessments, every two years brought people into the lab and got very careful measures on them, so a lot of what we initially knew about diet and health, smoking and health, and other things came from The Framingham Heart Study.

弗明汉研究每两年做一次评估,每两年在实验室里对研究对象,进行十分仔细的检测,我们对饮食与健康,吸烟与健康以及其他的了解,最初都来自于弗明汉心脏研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He ordered hospital workers to wear protective clothing and follow other safety measures.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

So we're going to hear a solo by Louis Armstrong now and let's count along once the phrase begins. I'll get you started and then you count the measures. Here we go.

下面我们听一段路易斯·阿姆斯特的独奏,同时音乐起奏时,我们就开始数,我会提示你们开始,然后你们开始数小节,准备好

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So what we want to do now is to begin to think about counting measures, and we're going to do this by staying with this piece of Louis Armstrong here, and we need to be able to count measures so that we can figure out the syntax of music.

现在我们想做的,是大家开始想一下怎么数小节,我们通过,路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的这段乐曲,来做这个活动,我们需要能够数好小节才能弄清楚,音乐的句法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选