But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

If you can kick the ball very hard, but not very accurately, then if you try and shoot to the left or right, you're slightly more likely to miss.

如果你只会大力抽射但是缺乏精准,当你射向左路或者右路时,你有可能会射偏

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But it's not a very popular because I think people in this country,

但是那不会是主流观点，因为我想这个国家的人，

欧洲中的英国 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Rahman is not well known in the western world but he is very famous in his native India.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

So, for example, if you're the kind of person, which is I have to say all I ever was, if you're the kind of person who can kick the ball fairly hard but not very accurately, then it actually might change these numbers.

比如你是这样的一种人,我也不得不承认我以前也是这种人,如果你是那种能够大力抽射,但是精准度不高的人,那这些数据对你就不太准了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But it was not. It was written in a very general way that left the courts to decide what the law really said.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

So the Hyksos theory is one that got people very excited for a while, but is really not well supported.

因此希克索斯理论能让人兴奋一阵子，但是并没有得到很好的证实。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But he says in fact, sharks are very shy creatures that do not like to attack humans.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Why? This is not a Greek tradition, but it's very much a tradition in the East for kings to be considered by their people to be gods.

为什么呢？这并不是希腊传统，但在东方，统治者被人民尊为神明,却是一个重要传统。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You feel so cold that your body starts to shake -- not very much, but uncontrollably.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

We have a system, which you say it really-- The progressive tax system is very important but it's not conceptualized right.

我们有个制度，你们都觉得-,累进税制非常重要,但它被错误的概念化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You feel so cold that your body starts to shake -- not very much,but uncontrollably.

VOA: special.2010.12.29

The Turks have the saying because the Turks are very good at starting things off but not necessarily finishing them.

土耳其人非常擅长于开始某件事，但是并不一定完成事情,但是并不一定完成事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But he was a fighter pilot,not a test pilot, and not a very good commander.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

The soul has a very intimate connection with the body, but the person is not the soul and the body.

灵魂和肉体有着非常亲密的联系,但是人并不是灵魂加肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us ...

VOA: special.2011.06.02

All right. It's all very well. You're not an author, but I secretly think I'm an author, right?"

很好，你不是个作家，但是我私下认为我是，可以不？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So we work very closely with students not so much about what they want to study, but more about what problem are you trying to solve."

VOA: special.2009.09.24

You can see I'm not too friendly to that interpretation, but it is being taken very, very seriously.

我对这种启示不是很认可,但是人们都非常认真对待

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

She understood it very well. But somehow,at that moment, she could not explain it.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Then that's not a very long distance, probably easily walkable in a few minutes; but that child can't be walking through everybody's yard.

他们离得不远,可能走几分钟就到了,但是你的孩子却不能直接走到他的朋友家

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But sod can also have problems, especially if it was not very fresh.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

It's not going to be very interesting yet, but it will allow us to tease apart these ideas with, well, we'll see some Play-Doh.

它暂时还不是很有趣，但是它将让我们梳理这些想法，我们看到一些“培乐多“彩泥。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But in this election year, that does not seem very likely to happen.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

66 I'm sure it would be very amusing if I fell, but I'd rather not.

但我可不想，我们用13除以。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He liked sports. He was not very big, but he was fast.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

That's not really what I think, but that's how disturbing it is when people talk, and very nice students who do not realize this often disrupt my line of thinking.

虽然那不是我的真实想法,但是在课上有人讲话确实很烦人,有些好学生也没有意识到这点,他们经常会打断我的思路

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But she was not very successful with that kind of popular music.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But now, I want to raise a huge developmental puzzle and the puzzle is there are some ways in which babies are-- not just babies,but young children are very clueless when it comes to people.

但现在我想提出一个发展心理学的难题,这个难题是,当提及与人类有关的知识时,婴儿,甚至是幼儿,在某些方面都是完全不知的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选