"It's sort of like a world on its own. There's no other sport where you're really going up and down.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

They're trying to achieve satisfaction through their mouth of a sort they didn't get in this very early stage of development.

他们想通过这种口腔运动,来获得本该在口腔期获得的满足感。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, not everybody, but everybody can use to keep emails safe, just like sort of a really easy thing to do.

嗯，不一定是所有人，但是每个人都可以轻而易举地用这种密码来保证自己邮箱的安全，

积极参与俱乐部活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

If you have any sort of a mass or growth in your neck at the same time, that would be very suspicious."

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So for instance, institutions like mental institutions and some prisons have installed token economies where there's rewards for good behavior, often poker chips of a sort.

比如像精神病院和监狱这样的机构,都引入了代币法,来奖励良好行为，这些代币通常是扑克筹码一类的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That was the sort of thing that made a young man with broadcasting stars in his eyes .

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Now, Ken Kesey, some of you probably know, was a sort of performer, writer, not really an activist.

你们可能知道，他算是一个表演家、作家，不过不是一个积极分子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"It makes for this haunted sort of sound. It's a little bit like a wine glass, when you play a wine glass.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

But that wouldn't have been sort of a normal, everyday way to talk about a stranger in the ancient world.

但即便在古代，对陌生人这么称呼也不并不常见。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

And the basic idea was that we had some sort of a line and we knew the answer was somewhere between this point and this point.

去学习的二分搜索是有联系的,这种方法的基础思想,是我们有一个线性的序集,我们也明白答案在其中的某一段区间。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I think trying to understand our world is a really complicated endeavor and it's important to have a sort of solid rational approach like science does."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Well, of course, that's not the case, that's a sort of a myth for the French Revolution as well.

当然了,这只是个传说而已,这也是关于法国大革命的一个传说罢了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"People are sort of fact-checking what they have heard from a doctor.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

The pessimism sort of surprised me. So I spent some time looking for sort of a deeper positive message.

这其中的悲观主义某种程度上使我感到惊讶,我花了些时间寻找蕴含其中的深层的积极信条。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Sometimes a blunt cut is useful if you want to sort of grow a sticky end of your choice on it.

这时候钝切口很有用,尤其在你想获得选定的粘性末端的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

The natural hierarchy, then, seems to be a sort of hierarchy of intelligence or at least a hierarchy of the rational.

自然的阶级制度，似乎是一种智慧的阶级制度,或至少是理性的阶级制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

So the question was-- First, it was the accusation before the question, that I'm holding a sort of double standard.

其问题是,首先,在这个问题之前他指责,我在施行双重标准

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I've always been a devotee of slapstick, and it sort of emphasizes sometimes jokes and you know I think everybody really deep inside would sometime or another would like to throw a pie or get hit with a pie."

VOA: special.2010.10.17

Do you still call it that, "Stinger" At the end, sort of a syncopated bounce at the end of the thing?

你们还称其为结尾的"毒刺"吗,类似于结尾部分的切分音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"They announced a list of companies that sort of have a connection or affiliation with the family of the former president.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Even before the death of de Man and the revelations about his past, there were a lot of people sort of shaking their fists and saying, "What about history? What about reality?"

甚至在德曼逝世之前，对他的过往的揭露之前，就有许多人挑战他的观点，说道，那历史呢，现实呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And,it would be a shame to lose that sort of sense of the past, that sort of connectivity with the past.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Not exactly. When we taste human blood, a sort of frenzy begins, and it's almost impossible to stop.

VOA: standard.other

I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But when that's not true, then there is a typical sort of modern frontier, a land bridge which there a line is-a theoretical line is drawn through it, and on one side is one city, and the other side is another city.

但还不止这些天然边界,另外还有种边界形式,和现代国境线很类似,是由一座陆桥,分割出一条界线…假象的界线,界线的一边是一个城邦,另一边是另一个城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选