But this year, experts say the butterfly population has dropped by as much as fifty percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Now, figure in the fact that smoking is playing a role, physical activity is playing a role, still just changing fruit and vegetable consumption potentially could reduce heart disease worldwide by this much: stroke by 19% and some cancers by as much as 20%.

实际上吸烟和运动都对此有影响,即使将这些因素都考虑进去,仅仅改变水果和蔬菜的摄入量仍然能,在全球范围内减少这么多的心脏病得病率,中风减少19%而某些癌症减少达20%

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And you might have kind of been projecting ahead and thinking if we keep up at this pace, pretty much we would only get to carbon by the end of the semester.

你们可能会有这种推测：,如果我们以这个速度继续下去的话，这个学期,也只能讲到碳原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This in turn could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as seventeen percent.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

We could certainly implement this much more efficiently by just writing this one line of code, but, again, the key here is to take this step toward decomposing our code into chunks of code.

我们可以写这一行代码,使代码的执行更有效率，但是，这个关键字用来把我们的代码分解,成一段段的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The Thai economy is forecast to contract by as much as four percent this year, leaving as many as two million unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

And then maybe I raise the temperature to whatever, room temperature, maybe 20 degrees hotter than room temperature. And I again say OK, now how much heat do I need to raise this thing's temperature by 1 degree?

我可能把温度升到，比如室温,或者比室温高20度之类,然后我再说，好,现在要把这个东西的温度,升高一度需要多少热量？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

(No Transcripts:13 seconds) Trade has been growing by 30 percent annually for much of this decade, and now tops $100-billion a year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, 'Give us meat to eat!' I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me.

我从哪里得到肉给他们吃呢？,当他们都在我面前哭号，‘给我肉吃’,我无法独自管理这些人，这负担对我来说太沉重了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We need to see this the actual law passed by Congress, this EPCA, Electronic Privacy Communications Act made much more stronger, brought up to date.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

And so much of this conversation, I think, was dominated by extremists.

我认为，这一讨论的，很大部分被极端主义者控制。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But by continuously linking this in a public way and in taking a firm position on it, they make it much more difficult for him to move away from sites in Poland and the Czech Republic,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

So, we paid one dividend and I don't know how much excitement it generated, but that's the Does this mean that share price will drop by $2 after a $2 dividend?

所以我们分了一次红,我不知道这引起了多大的兴奋,但这是,分了两美元股利后,是不是每股价格就会下降两美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.

但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Long-time former Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid praised Mr.Obama for coming to Egypt and for trying to develop stronger ties with the Arab world: "I very much welcome this visit and consider that it's a very important move by Mr.Obama, and that in coming and visiting, to know more about our area and about Egypt, is something very,very successful.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

This much, by the way, Wimsatt has in common with Gadamer, because Gadamer doesn't talk much about authors either, and Gadamer is interested in what he calls meaning, the subject matter, die Sache. Right? He's not interested in your sort of expression of that meaning or my expression of that meaning.

顺便说一句，文萨特和葛达玛很大相同之处就在于，葛达玛也不太强调作者的作用，而是对文章的含义，主题感兴趣，不是吗？，他不关注作品在用,你的还是我的表达方式来表现内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns, and it's remarkable how they all look so much alike, because they're all inspired by this originally Greek model of the city.

如果你现在去土耳其,叙利亚，以色列，约旦或埃及旅游，就会发现当地考古挖掘出的古城镇，都惊人的相似，因为都是根据古希腊模型建的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather, There is a house that is no more a house... And that is where he's going to take us in the poem.

回到那时对我们来说太沉重了，那个时代是由细节的遗失组成的,烧毁的，不见得，和被破坏的,像这样的天气，墓地里的大理石雕像，这是一个不再是房子的房子。,这就是诗里他要带我们去的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now I seem to be violating my own mantra here by just calling this variable A, but this is reasonable, I much as with four loops when you just call an incrementing variable I, because you just need an index, well, same here.

现在我好像违背了我自己的意愿,我把这个变量叫做A，但这是合理的，就像我们的for循环中，我们把一个增变量叫做,因为我们只要一个索引，这里也一样。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选