I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self-defense and in the performance of official duty.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

So, if you look at any engineering system, the performance of that engineering system is a function of its design and its construction.

如果你们观察过工程系统，工程系统的性能就是,它的设计和构造的功能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But I think he actually fell asleep during the performance.

我想演出的时候他其实睡着了。

记忆犹新的作品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The researchers developed a mixture of chemicals that interfered with the performance of the enzyme.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

The performance of family conversation is like acting, and that is why Zooey impersonates Buddy; he's acting.

家庭对话的表现则像是表演，那是为什么左伊模仿巴蒂，他在表演。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The group does this through the performance of personal stories based on real life experiences.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

There's the performance version of 1634 and the printed version of 1637, and the additions to the text that Milton is making for the published version reflect, I think, his sense that he, like the Lady, is in the process of making an important transition.

634年的表演版本4,和1637年的印刷版本,弥尔顿在出版版本中添加的部分，我认为那表现出，就像是女士吧，是正在做转变的重要进程中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A young man with the group sang during the performance.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Every three years PISA measures the performance of fifteen-year-olds.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

It emphasizes the long run performance of the stock market, but it's really a general treatise of financial markets.

虽然这本书着重于股票长期投资,但它其实是一本关于金融市场的综合性著作

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The performance combined dance with song and theater.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

And so instead of defining efficiency the way you've got it written there, I'm going to define what's called something different for a refrigerator which is called the coefficient of performance.

现在我们不用,效率的那个定义，我给出一个,有关制冷机的,新的定义,叫做制冷系数。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The performance also included live music.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.

这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The performance was at the town hall.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Assessments of the performance of the national government rose slightly from a similar poll taken a year earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

So you will have the right taste, you have the right performance in the food quality.

你将尝到纯正品质的美味。

问上门厨师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Of course,many who witnessed Elvis at the International still remember him giving the performance of a lifetime.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

I want you to recognize classes of algorithms and match what you see in the performance of the algorithm to the complexity of that algorithm. All right?

让我再试一次这么说,我期望大家能通过,算法的复杂度,来看到算法的性能？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I want that to be the performance that is seen two years later in the finished film.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

C So, that's the breakdown. And, the grade is C level, 50% and it's based upon a performance of 50% absolute.

这些就是分类，分数是，那就是基于成绩的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Each year the Washington-based League of Conservation Voters releases a scorecard that rates the performance of members of Congress on environment and energy issues.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

So,I'm telling you from the beginning, but don't dream and think that somehow the Final's going to be so much different from your regular day-to-day performance, but to give you some reason to live after the Midterm.

所以我在开始告诉你们,但是,不要以为你们的最终成绩,和你们的平时表现,没什么关系,但这能让你们不至于期中的时候就绝望了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The DA also won control of the Western Cape provincial assembly due largely to public satisfaction with the performance of its leader, Helen Zille, as mayor of Cape Town, the country's second largest city.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

What kind of performance can we see at the theater in Harlem?

在哈莱姆的剧院里，我们能看到什么类型的表演呢？

关于黑人文化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Sanctions have had a real effect on the performance of our industries, mining manufacturing, we can't get spare parts, we can't get credit lines and we are blocked in regard to aid from the World Bank and IMF."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The other favorite street performance?

其他喜欢的街头表演？

街头表演很有趣 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I noticed that several of you were smiling, in a way, as I read, that suggested you were embarrassed by the performance. Right?

我注意到在我读的时候你们中有人笑了，那表示你们对我的表演感到难堪，对吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选