Barbara Jordan,however, explained later that she wanted to be something unusual.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

There seems to be something like a gentle parody maybe even a mocking tone that fills the lines of the Elder Brother's ecstatic speech.

似乎有些东西如文雅诙谐的改编作品甚至是嘲弄的语气,体现在大哥入神的讲话中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Like everyone wants that to be something, but really it's the time that you spend on it.

人人都想拥有什么，但其实是你（在这件事上）所花费的时间

钱重要吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Such a person appears to be something he is not.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

So don't we need there to be something outside the body that programs the body? That could be the soul.

所以我们是不是也需要肉体的外部程序,来操控自身呢,那可能就是灵魂了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One council diplomat said Lebanon could prove to be something of a wild card on Middle East issues particularly Iran's nuclear ambitions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

There will always he suggests appear to be something ad hoc about the methods used in the study of politics.

主题允许多少精准性？我们如何得知,事情总有，他也提到,总有一些事是特别的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I am more than satisfied." "I cannot explain. It is more than I expected, because to meet the pope personally you have to be something special."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

This one turns out to be the heat capacity, and this one turns out to be something that we measure in the Joule-free expansion.

其实，这就是热容，这是焦耳自由膨胀实验中,我们要测量的物理量。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But they claimed to be something different, so we made a treaty with them.

VOA: standard.other

We've had other economic problems that have led to recessions but it hasn't seemed to be something as potentially global as it is now.

我们经历过其他导致经济衰退的,经济问题，但是这些都不是,像现在这样全球化的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"There needs to be something done, but this is not it,"

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

That used to be something that was like 80s, 90s, but now it's definitely coming back.

这种曾是八九十年代的东西，现在无疑又开始流行了。

推荐购物街 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But just the fact that the idea came up, that we know that there are people out there thinking about this, seemed to be something that people want to talk about,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

> So this tune made by one of our former students; but it doesn't have to be something written in Scratch, it doesn't have to be a game or animation it can simply be an incredibly, wonderfully way to spend time.

这段是由以前的学生制作的;,不一定非要用Scratch编写，也不一定必须是个游戏或动画,它只不过是用来打发时间的，一个好办法。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

That means, when I take two derivatives, I want to get a, then you should know enough calculus to know it has to be something like at^, and half comes from taking two derivatives.

也就是说,当我想求二阶导时,得到了a,你应该有足够的微积分知识,才能知道必须有类似at^的项,而这个1/2则是因为求了两次导数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

So that, to think nothing is something you have to work at; it's something that you can be preoccupied with.

所以脑子里一片空白,也是需要你努力的事;,需要全神贯注的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is something to be proud of. Most of the people I work with are early birds.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Truth is something to be embodied in Yeats, embodied rather than known; embodied in the sense of lived, not merely understood but experienced.

真理是叶芝要表现的，表现而不是理解，通过存活,表现，不仅是理解而是体验。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So this type of product is just, they're a treat, they're something very,very special to be savored."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Past isn't something to be glamorized to be the nostalgic about, sentimental about, because the past is gone.

过去不是用来让我们美化的,也不是让我们怀旧感伤的，因为过去了的就成了历史，消失不在了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

That means to be nervous about having to do something, like speaking in front of a crowd.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

You need to, if you want something to be printed out inside your code, you need to tell the machine to do that.

你需要，如果你想要,在代码中显示一些东西的话，你需要告诉机器这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

And there's something to be learnt from the challenge of that experience.

而同时从这些挑战中,我也能学到很多东西。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The dollar weakness is something to be concerned about.

美元的疲软确实值得担忧。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选