But they almost never held positions of great responsibility.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Then when I am talking to young people about Columbine they almost always understand it in the context of school bullying in the context of parental neglect in the context of kids' lack of self-esteem and dignity.

当我和人们讨论科罗拉多可伦拜高中枪杀案时,他们几乎都是这样理解的,无非是校园暴力,缺乏父母管教,以及孩子们缺少自尊自立。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The big three are three variables that the effects are so powerful that they almost don't need to be discussed in much detail.

是指三大因素,力量很强悍,我们几乎不用说得太细。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"They almost seem like they are reaching out wanting to kiss you. I love them all.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

They reject certain elements But they almost reject them by incorporating them.

他们否定了某些要素,但他们在吸纳的同时又进行了否定。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If you lined up all the stores side by side, they would cover a distance of almost seven kilometers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

It's almost a way of inviting us to visualize the separation of these two people as they speak.

这几乎是吸引我们去观察,说话的两个孤立的个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The Taos Pueblo you see today looks almost as it did to the Spanish when they arrived almost five centuries ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And they had to defend a line almost sixty kilometers long, from Richmond to the city of Petersburg.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Now they are falling and in real terms home prices have fallen almost 10% since the peak in 2006.

从2006年房价格最高点算起,现在房价已经,下跌了将近 10%

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They developed new methods to get what they say are the best estimates yet for almost every country.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

which is significant is that lot got reading about those websites but almost no one saw them, because they were removed from public view within a few minutes after the shooting took place in the high school.

重要的是,很多人都知道了他们的网站,但没有几个人真正上过这个网站，因为这一事实被掩盖于公众眼前,不过几分钟的时间在枪击案,发生在高中里。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But almost everyone tried to help him when they found out that he was riding around the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

They might put up an official inscription in an Eastern city in Latin, but they'd almost always, if it was an official inscription, it would also be listed in Greek.

他们也许用拉丁语在某个东方城市，发布官方告示，如果是官方的，同样总是会附上希腊语。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They found that aspirin users had an almost thirty percent lower risk of dying from their cancer.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

The two best debugging tools are the same now that they have almost always been.

最好的两个调试工具一直,以来基本没怎么变过。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When the sun shines on the almost straight-sided rocks, they look like bright shining wings rising out of a mountain of green trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Almost from the beginning, but increasingly during the twenties, they turned their attention to the problems of literary historiography, and they said some rather bracing things about it.

从一开始，特别是20世纪中，他们越发重视文学历史编撰学，他们提出过一些相当让人振奋的建议。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Almost sixty percent said they had suffered needle stick injuries when they were in medical school.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

So it's almost as if functions really are useless because they have no ultimate effect.

所以几乎是函数是没起作用的,因为它们没有最终的效果。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He says the windows will insulate almost as well as the walls they are connected to.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

They'll have something going and then almost unbeknownst to you they will take that and lift it up in terms of the pitch content.

他们会让音乐继续,然后出其不意,通过音高大小,来升华它

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Almost nine out of ten also said they always wash after using the bathroom at home.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

They ate much better than poor people did almost anywhere else.

他们的吃得比别的地方的穷人好得多

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They say no photographer would make a picture that hides almost all of the people's faces.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

So now somebody can get an artificial hip and they can live for many decades with it and have almost full function of that hip over that period of time.

所以现在患者可以使用人造髋关节,再活上几十年,而且几乎和正常人没一点差别

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They will share almost one and a half million dollars for their analysis of economic governance.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.

但是就一生而言,我觉得，在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐，做那只享受一时快感的鼠。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选