For example, the Supreme Court ruled in nineteen forty-eight that religious classes could not be taught in public schools.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I enjoyed it. It was nice, but I could not speak eloquently about the pieces like everyone else.

我很喜欢现代艺术，挺好的。但是我不能像其他人那样流利地说出艺术品的所以然来。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

His real name was Theodore. And if there was ever a problem she could not handle, her husband put things right.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

A society based simply on the mutual calculation of interests could not be a real political society for Aristotle.

一个建构在双方相互算计利益的社会,对亚里士多德而言,并不是一个真正的政治社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Second,he could not be guilty of plotting a slave rebellion, because he had never incited slaves against their owners.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Once they discovered their moral freedom, once they discovered that they could thwart God and work evil in the world, and abuse and corrupt all that God had created, then God could not afford to allow them access to the tree of life.

一旦他们意识到了，道德自由,一旦他们违背上帝，开始作恶,摧残，腐化，上帝的创造物,上帝便不准他们再接近生命树。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Insurers could not deny coverage to people who already have a condition, or cancel coverage if people get sick.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

It still has positive charge, and there is nothing saying another chloride could not stick to it.

它仍然具有正电荷，不能说明另外一个氯,不能固定在上面。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Hitler could not strengthen his forces in North Africa and Italy, because Germany also was fighting hard in the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

I don't know how he could not think there was a bubble, but he didn't see it.

我不知道他为何认为不存在泡沫,但是他没有看出来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

And the story goes-- He was dealing with a child actor who simply could not cry.

有一次-,和他合作的一个小演员竟哭不出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

My body seemed on fire and I could not sleep.

我全身如火般滚烫,无从休息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"And one night." said McKinley, "It came to me this way: "That we could not give the Philippines back to Spain.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

During the Enlightenment, the works of the philosophers that could not be published in France werepublished in Switzerland, more about that another time, and in the Netherlands.

启蒙运动时期,思想家们的作品,即使不能在法国出版,但也都在瑞士出版了,之后不久,又在荷兰相继问世

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

And finally they could not hold their traders report the same kind of income other people reported so they threw out the sound accounting and went to the folly accounting.

最后，他们无法像其他人那样,报告相同数目的收入，因此他们,抛弃了健全的会计制度,而转向了愚蠢的会计制度。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Lincoln had said that the United States could not continue to permit slavery in some areas, while banning it in others.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

This was something we could not predict using Lewis structures, but we can predict using MO theory that we have a radical species here.

这是我们从Lewis结构里不能预测的，但我们可以用分子轨道理论,预测自由基。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

John could not wait to pay back the rest of the money that Judge Tone said his father had borrowed.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

where the super model could not be an effective model for bikinis after a certain age.

比基尼模特在达到一定的年龄后就无法再担任这份工作了。

退休很神奇 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She said Ian Shaw was among several people who could not find paying jobs but still wanted to work.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Because sometimes when I was in Israel and West Bank I could not discern who is Arab and who is Israeli because my eyes didn't allow.

因为有几次我在以色列，约旦河西岸,我无法分辨谁是阿拉伯人，谁是以色列人,我没那种眼力。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They would hit the Confederates with so much strength in so many places that the rebels could not stop them.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

We were going down all the time because of it, because we could not see what was happening.

因此，我们的业绩一路下滑，也因为我们无法预测会发生什么。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

I could not take my eyes from it. I looked at the photograph for some hours and then began working."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

The greatest tragedy of American history arguably is that this struggle could not be decided by debate.

美国历史上最大的悲剧可以说是,这场斗争不能由辩论来决定

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You could not go below that.

不可能少于四分钟。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选