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You might say when I wear my best clothes, I am dressed to the nines or dressed to the teeth.
VOA: special.2010.05.09
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That might be a question you might wanna answer or you might wanna say, is the thing on the left and the thing on the right both true?
这可能是一个,你得到回答的问题，你还可能会问是不是左边的和右边的都是真的？
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Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.
政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。
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If someone is doing an extremely good job and is very successful, you might say he or she is batting one thousand.
VOA: special.2009.04.12
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If you see a man who is not effeminate, you might ignore it or say maybe he's not really gay after all.
如果你看到不是娘娘腔的同性恋者，你可能会忽视他,或者认为他不是真的同性恋者。
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Sometimes on television crime dramas you might hear a police officer or a suspect say someone was "eighty-sixed,"
VOA: special.2010.01.08
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His curious fancy is more active than his desire. Or, you might say, his desire to know is more active than his desire to love.
他好奇的本质比欲望更强烈，或许你们会说，他求知的欲望比爱的欲望强烈。
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When a person shares her feelings freely and openly like this, you might say she wears her heart on her sleeve, or on her clothing.
VOA: special.2010.07.11
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You might say, I'll leave that problem-- are souls spatially located or not-- to be worked out by those who believe in it.
你可能会说,我会把这个问题,"灵魂是否在空间上有它的位置",留给那些相信这个理论的人去解决
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You might ask your brother, "Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say,Okay,I will. Still,language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
VOA: special.2010.02.28
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And,you may or may not be intested in the motion, as I am, but you might say: what is the signal good for?
对于情感来说，你们或许有兴趣，也有可能和我一样觉得没意思，但你会问，这种信号什么用处？
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You might say--or a good part of-- it is our ability to process information.
你们可能都会说，或者大部分人会说-,因为我们有处理信息的能力。
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If you eat food for a long time and then you stop, let's say a high sugar diet or something and withdrawal symptoms occur, well that might mean addiction is occurring.
如果你长期吃某种食物,一旦停止食用,例如高糖饮食之类,就会出现戒断反应,这也许说明你已经上瘾了
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You might say it is less a body of true propositions than a shrewd sense of know-how or political savvy.
你可以说,这较不像是真实主张的本体,而较像是狡猾的诀窍意识,或说政治悟性。
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You might say, of course the question, what renders authority legitimate, is only possible, or is only raised when authority is in question.
你们可能会说，这个问题当然是，如何使权力合法化这个问题，当然是可能的，或者说当权力出现问题的时候这个问题会自然出现。
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All political action you might say is guided by the idea of better or worse.
所有的政治行动,都可说是,受到改善或恶化的指引。
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Most importantly you might say what distinguishes the gentleman as a class from the philosophers is a certain kind of knowledge or practical intelligence.
你可能会说，最重要,能区别出,绅士阶级与哲学家的地方,是一种特定的知识,或实际智能。
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Are the philosophers or are the poets you might say the true legislators for mankind ?! if you want to use Shelley's dictum?
是哲学家或是诗学家,或者你可以说，人类的真正立法者,如果你想要借用雪莱名言的话？
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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.
对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。
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In short you might say a lack of civic piety or respect.
简言之，你会说那是,缺乏公民虔诚或尊重。
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Does this policy of principled disobedience, you might say vindicate or indict Socrates of the charge of corruption and impiety ? that has been brought against him?
这种原则性反抗的策略，可说是证明,或判定苏格拉底,腐化与亵渎神明,罪名的证据吗？
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To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in political life spontaneously and avidly, as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.
说我们本能地会那么做,并不代表,我们自然且贪婪地,忙于政治生活，就像蜘蛛结网,或蚂蚁筑蚁冢。
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What would a community ? of Socratic citizens look like, each one picking and choosing, you might say, the laws or the rules to obey or to follow or not to follow.
苏格拉底式的公民社群,会是什么样子，每个人都自己挑选，想服从,遵守及不遵守的法律。
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In both of these cases, I take it, Socrates' point is that his own individual moral integrity stands as a kind of litmus test, you might say, for whether to engage or disengage from political life.
从这两场事件看来，苏格拉底的观点是,他自己个人的道德正直,经得起立见分晓的检验，我们可以看到无论参与,政治生活与否。
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Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.
他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。
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First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe, then a further association in a village, and then you might say an association of villages that create a polis or a city.
首先是家庭，然后是众多家庭的结合形成部落，再扩大形成村庄，然后是村庄的结合,创造出了城邦或城市。
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How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?
我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？
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