The surgery can sometimes be complex, and may require more than one operation to correct.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It's just that people in finance are sometimes very successful and they could give a lot more than $100 to UNICEF.

只是从事金融行业的人们,有的时候非常成功,他们可以给联合国儿童基金会更多的钱

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There is a kind of internal irony here, I think because Hobbes sometimes writes as if, as we've seen, as if human beings are nothing more than complex machines that mechanically obey the laws of attraction and repulsion.

但我想这儿似乎存在着一种讽刺,因为霍布斯笔下的人，似乎就只是一具复杂的机器,只知机械地遵循法律所允许和不允许的事,这点我们在前面已有所耳闻。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

And people used to go up there on May Day, and sometimes on the anniversary of the Commune, just to see where these people fell, with enormous more dignity than the people who shot them.

过去,人们会在国际劳动节时上那去,有时候巴黎公社纪念日也去,就是要去看看那些人们倒下的地方,相比那些射杀他们的人们,他们有着高得多的尊严

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选