But I like to think that people love chocolate because everybody has an experience that they can relate to eating chocolate, and usually it's a good one.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

This should make sense, because if an atom has a very high electron affinity, that means it's really happy taking an electron from another atom, or taking a free electron -- that that's very favorable.

这应该是合理的，因为如果一个原子有很高的电子亲和能，这意味着,它非常乐意从另外一个原子那里夺取一个电子，或者得到一个自由电子--这是非常利于发生的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

because it will give you an opportunity to say "I want to be sure that this is done, has been done"

因为用这个句型，你就能表达“我想确认这事会做到的，或者已经做到了。”

Make sure 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"I think it's an area that has seen its share of economic woes in the past, but because of foresight and investment is now renewed giving birth to renewed industries that are creating the jobs of the future.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The U.S. Is actually an important country for regulation because it has been a model for much of the regulations around the world.

在监管方面,美国确实是一个重要的国家,美国的监管制度已成为各国的模板

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"And it was quite an issue,quite honestly, because housekeeping has been doing business a certain way for many,many years,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Because it's a gel electricity is going to move through the gel because there are ions in it the same way - for the same reason you don't drop an electrical device into the bathtub because charge moves through water that has ions in it.

由于凝胶中存在离子,电流会通过凝胶,同样--,因为同样的原因你不会把电器扔进浴缸里,因为水里也有离子,所以水可以导电

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"It has collapsed because of the conscious work of new generation of opposition inside which worked for two decades on building up an alternative system of information, knowing that's the most important,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Perhaps more importantly, how to recognize a kind of algorithm based on its properties and know what class it belongs to. This is a hint. If you like, leaning towards the next quiz, that you oughta be able to say that looks like a logarithmic algorithm because it's got a particular property. That looks like an n log n algorithm because it has a particular property.

也许更重要的是,如何根据一个算法的特点将其辨别出来,并且知道它属于哪一类算法,这是一个提示，就对于接下来的测验来说,如果你喜欢你可以说它看起来像一个对数算法,因为它有一个特定的性质,那个看起来像一个n，log，n的算法,因为它有一个特定的性质。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Even though it would be easy and it is ripe for the picking, we wanted to be more of an homage to that type of storytelling because I think it has a really powerful message.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

It becomes an arm-twisting thing -because of this risk of moral hazard, the bank has a threat to take the money back and they are going to find out quickly if you, as a company, are behaving wrong.

这衍变成一种施压行为...,由于道德风险的存在,银行恐怕收不回欠款,因此,在你的公司行为不良时,他们便会迅速发现此事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28