Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

If I wanted you to care about an animal, I would do well to describe it as if it were human.

如果我想你关心动物，我就把它当成人一样描述。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But luckily for us, there's a classical equation of motion that will, in fact, describe how the electron and nucleus change position or change their radius as a function of time.

但幸运的是，有一个,经典方程描述了电子和核子,位置或者它们直接的距离是,如何随时间变化的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The band members describe themselves as a new band made up of old friends.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

One, we can train them to perform these elaborate eye and arm movement tasks as you are seeing here I will describe.

第一，我们可以训练他们去完成眼睛和手臂运动等精细的动作,正如我要介绍的那样。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person and language can be used for this.

我可以把你描述成，或想象成,不是一个人，而我可以利用语言做到这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

People often describe the deep color of the Cattleya lip as "showy."

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Only by using wave-like properties as an explanation can you describe diffraction.

只能用类波特征来,解释和描述衍射。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Some people describe the pain as throbbing, causing pressure in the head.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

I didn't make any of these up, but there you are, as I'm talking about them, you're just being grossed out as I describe them.

我又没瞎编，但当我谈论那些的时候，你就在那，当我描述那些的时候你被恶心到了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He would rather people describe his music as having repeating structures.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

And this is about... I think in some ways what I describe Princeton as is a privileged but a microcosmo of the world where people are coming together and bumping up against people with whom they very much disagree.

这是关于。,我认为，我觉得普里斯顿大学,是一个特殊的,整个世界的缩小版,人们从四面八方聚集,遇到一些与自己想法,出入很大的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

As officials describe it, they lost him for a time.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Cluster headache patients describe the pain as burning.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

That's how he often writes about human behavior, that we obey the same laws of physical attraction as do any other bodies that we might choose to describe. They describe how bodies in motion always and necessarily behave, these laws of nature.

这是他经常说的人类行为，我们遵守同样的物质吸引的法则,其他人也一样,他们描述运动中的身体,经常而且肯定会，体现出自然法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Interviewed on the BBC, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he could not describe the vote as "free and fair."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I think one needs to recognize given the current state of relations it is difficult to describe it as a strategic one anymore.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

So, if we think about the force that occurs between a positively and a negatively charged particle, what we have is essentially a Coulomb force, so we can describe this as a force of attraction.

一个带负电的粒子之间，的作用力,这本质上就是库伦力，我们可以把它，描述成一个引力。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"As many have noted, the President does not describe this as a "war on terrorism."

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

U.S.officials describe La Familia as the newest and most violent of Mexico's five major cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

If I wanted to think about all of you and get--and establish more of a connection with you, I would not describe you as unrelated strangers.

如果我想和你们,变得熟络，我就不会称你们为不相干的陌生人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Well, actually, the first remark is, probably wouldn't be completely accurate to say, to describe these views as saying, " "It's being alive per se."

实际上，第一个评价是，也许这种说法不完全准确，他们把这些观点描述成为，“活着本身“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I'd describe him as a normal, average 19-year-old in England today.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

It is fair to describe this as astonishing.

用"惊人"来形容这个观点是贴切的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, you can see, it's much easier to describe that as one term, r here, instead of using both y and z.

所以，你们可以看到，用r而不是y和z来做描述，使得它变得更为简单。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选