Early identification of the disease may be difficult because many infected people do not show any immediate symptoms.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

There may even be people here who distinguished themselves because they starred in Romeo and Juliet. Or, maybe they produced.

这间教室里甚至有人,才华横溢，因为他们,曾在罗密欧与朱丽叶中演出，或者他们是制作人。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

because that sarcastic undertone may or may not be present depending on how it's used.

因为话中是否有挖苦的意思，还得看这句型是如何使用的。

Do you ever课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

As you may have guessed, because you have this on your handout, Milton is alluding here to the famous words of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah.

你们可能已经猜到了，因为讲义上都有，弥尔顿在这儿影射到这些,先知艾赛亚旧约里的一些很有名的词。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The discovery is exciting because it suggests that the building blocks of life may be more common in the universe than scientists had thought.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

They may swallow their doubts because they have a sense that it will improve the market for their shares.

对这些疑虑他们只有忍受,因为他们很清楚,公司上市会增加他们的市场份额

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because of the gravity on Mars, spacesuits may have to be designed to be lighter than suits used in orbit or on the moon.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Some scholars have even speculated that Christians may have been the first to do this, because they were arguing with their friends,the Jews.

有些学者甚至推测,基督教徒是首先这样做的，因为他们在和犹太朋友争辩时。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

A wife may hit the ceiling because her husband forgot their wedding anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

If you wish to change sections, you may do so only with permission of the subject administrators because it's very important that those sections be kept at a small population.

如果你们想要改时间，你只能在课程管理主任允许,的情况下这样做,因为让课程的人数保持在比较少的水平,是很重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That may be because he died before his twentieth birthday.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Because positive psychology may mean that we are only focusing on the positive and what works, ignoring all the rest that are not.

因为积极心理学可能表示,我们只聚焦于积极的起作用的部分，忽略其余不起作用的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"Hepatitis B is the silent killer because most people who are chronically infected may not be aware of the infection."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The citizen may accept certain beliefs on faith because he or she is attached to a particular kind of political order or regime.

公民也许会接受特定信仰中的信念,因为他与特定的政治层级,或政体有关连。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are fears that some low-lying communities may have to be abandoned in years to come because of flooding and erosion.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

That sign languages may be full-blown languages but they just take--they're just harder to learn because the brain and the body have adapted for speech.

手语或许是成熟的语言,但它们更难学,因为大脑和身体已经适应了口语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He says because GM crops can be designed to be resistant to insects and disease they may also be better for the environment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Not because you necessarily need it at the moment but your brain tells you you may need it later and so eat, eat, eat becomes the priority.

并不是因为当时真的需要,但你的大脑告诉你,你以后可能会需要,所以吃吧,先吃了再说

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Now,that may be because they are sicker and they needed it, and C-Sections certainly save lives."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Let me show you an example of the first possibility, because that's the one I think we may be overlooking when we assume that disregarding can't ever make any sense.

让我给你们一个第一种可能的例子，因为我认为我们可能会忽视它,当我们假设无视根本说不通时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The most potent reason that Asian-Americans are increasingly joining the army may just be because they now see top-level officers who look like them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission estimates that at least 100-thousand children may not be able to continue their education because of the suspension of donor funds.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

That may be the thing that has the biggest value, because let's say if you have guys in the product development team, and they're using one particular way of doing things, another team is using something completely different, off in another country, somebody's using something different.

它可能是最有价值的，因为如果,产品研发团队，使用某种做事方式，另外一个团队用完全不同的做事方式，在不同国家，做事方式是不同的。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

But former CIA officer Robert Grenier says the claim may well be true because of their threats of retaliation over U.S.drone aircraft attacks against the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It's worth saying a word about that, because I want to undermine any great confidence that you may have and what you can believe that scholars tell you, because we keep finding out how wrong we are about all kinds of things.

这里得说的是,我想给自信满满的家伙泼点儿冷水,你曾深信不疑的学者们告诉你的那些事,不断被发现,并在很多问题上都存在纰漏

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Aid groups say 23 million people face starvation in East Africa because of a relentless drought some scientists say may be a result of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

I'm then printing bracket one, bracket two, bracket three, bracket dot, dot, dot up until the total number of arguments, 1 whatever that may be, and it's going to be at least one because the program always has a name.

然后我打印，括号等等等，知道打印完所有的参数，不管那个最大值可能是什么，它将至少为,因为程序总是有一个名字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选