The device shows scientists what an object is made of from great distances.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Now, this is a pretty familiar widget of little gadget that you might see on most websites today, but my God, what an uninteresting problem to solve ourselves.

这是一个大家都很熟悉的小工具,现在在大多数的网站上都可以看到，天哪，如果我们自己解决这样的问题那将是多么无趣！

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

because that's just not a good representation necessarily of what an average woman looks like.

因为那不是代表一般女性很好的例子，

选美比赛的好处 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

withdrawal from Afghanistan would likely lead to the Taliban regaining power, and questioned what an expanded U.S.military presence would accomplish.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

I won't be able to show you what a market does unless I have stocks, but I can look at what an individual stock does without having a market.

我不会在没有股票的时候,就给你讲股市应该是怎么样的，但是我可以在没有股市的情况下,先去看单独的股票。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"But you did,and I know what an extraordinary leap of faith that is on your part.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

So it's kind of like what an analogy to what he was talking about with like the common English property.

这有点像他所说的,英国公有财产问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"I think they have to have an example like some stars like Landon Donovan on the US national team of the World Cup so they can see what an example is and what they could be like when they grow up and work hard at football."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

So you can either say that electrons are very, very tiny or that they're never ending, and both are pretty accurate ways to think about what an atom is.

所以你既可以说,原子非常非常小,也可以说它是不会终止的，这两种说法,都是正确的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Some eye care professionals say all that screen time has led to an increase in what they call computer vision syndrome.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

If you've ever worked with a synthesizer: I think, is very simple terms here, what an electronic synthesizer does is play with these.

如果你们使用过合成器,这个词大家都明白意思吧,电子合成器就是用来处理这些分音的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The students examine an issue, review what is already known, think about what they have learned and come to some conclusion.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

And what an agonist does is increases the effect of neurotransmitters, either by making more neurotransmitters or stopping the cleanup of neurotransmitters, or in some cases by faking a neurotransmitter, by mimicking its effects.

兴奋剂会增加神经递质的作用效果,有可能是通过释放更多的神经递质而实现,也可能是通过阻止神经递质的排出而实现,也有时候是通过伪造神经递质,通过模仿神经递质的效果来实现的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So,Senator Nelson created an independent nonprofit group called Environmental Teach-In,Inc to help organize what would become an environmental revolution.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So, it's very important to see how different from that the Greek idea was and what an enormous responsibility the polis was supposed to have, and of course with that, there had to be an enormous amount of support for the state by the citizens.

因此,了解希腊观点的与众不同,以及城邦应当拥有完善的政府职能,是非常重要的,当然,基于此,一个优秀的政府离不开,那些支持他们的公民

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What was there to count? There was only an empty yard and the blank side of the house seven meters away.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

We're not asking you to change anything; in fact it's best for this particular exercise to eat as you typically would so you can get a sense of what an average day would be like for you.

我们不是要求你去改变什么,事实上,对于这个作业来说,保持以前的饮食习惯是最好的,以便了解自己平时的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"I think the story in some ways tells us what we want to think of ourselves as an American.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

What is the meaning of an untrodden way, or of "there are none to praise" her but "very few to love"?

没有人走过的路是什么意思呢？,还有“没有人赞扬她“但是“几乎没有人爱她“又是什么意思呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But salinity is actually an important parameter that gives us an indication of what might be going on."

VOA: special.2011.06.22

And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

ALLEN: " Well,at two o'clock, our billing changes." SECRETARY: "Well, what kind of an act do you do?"

VOA: special.2009.03.09

This quantity is exactly zero for an ideal gas and we'll discover why eventually it has to do with what we mean by an ideal gas it turns out.

对理想气体它是零,这点我们接下来会知道是,为什么，这与为什么我们叫它理想气体有关。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

This is a formula that applies to-- what if an asset pays a fixed amount every period and then stops?

这个公式应用于...,如果一份资产在每段时期都给与支付,然后突然停止了怎么办

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He also wanted to create what he called a hit factory, an idea he got from working for the Ford Motor Company.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

If you think that Americans have an image of what we stand for in the world and of what we do.

如果你认为美国人知道,自己在世界上象征了什么,知道自己在做什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

And I'm Faith Lapidus. What would you like in an English learning mobile app if you could have one designed just for you?

VOA: special.2011.03.22

And, in fact, instead of having just an electrode here, what I could do is I could have an electrode that is.

实际上，我不是要得到一个电极，我所做的是,有一个电极。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The result is that when you divide an int by an int, the answer no matter what is going to be an int.

当你把一个整型数除以一个整型数时，无论如何答案将会是一个整型数。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选