Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

What is it about the Greeks between the years that I mentioned to you that deserves the attention of people in the twenty-first century?

是什么使得久远的古希腊,会值得21世纪的人们,去关注和研究呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What is it about the thought that the computer is just following a program?

电脑仅仅只是在执行程序,这个观点到底是什么样的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center says the city's population is about seventy-seven percent of what it was before Katrina.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

What is it about the New Deal?

新政有什么好？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

"The Fantasticks" is about young love, children leaving home and what it is like to be a father.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

In the Odyssey,you remember Odysseus finds himself on the island of the Cyclops, those one-eyed monsters, and what is it about them that make them so monstrous, so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?

还记得《奥德赛》中的奥德修斯,在独眼怪居住的岛上遇到的那些怪物,为什么这些独眼怪在荷马式英雄的眼中,是那么丑陋,那么残忍

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is a way to get scientists to talk with the general public about what they do.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

What was neat about it is before that time, the predominant species to use for air conditioning or refrigeration was ammonia.

在这之前是很整洁的，之前最主要的用于空调或者冰箱的,物质是氨。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"NASA is going to have to decide what it's going to do about the human space program.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

And what he writes about is an extraordinary concept really: it's something called "the nobility of the poem".

他所写的是一个绝妙的理念,叫做，诗歌的高贵。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Clinton said in the absence of an Iranian reply, it is premature to talk about what may happen if Tehran ultimately rejects the offer.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But story, that's what the plot is about, and if that's what the plot is about, how can we avoid calling it content?

但是情节又都是围绕故事的，所以我们怎么能否认，故事是内容呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What Walls likes about the curriculum is that it relies more on pictures than on words.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

As we go across the row what happens is that the ionization energy actually increases, and we can think about logically why it is that that's happening.

当我们沿着行,向右走的时候，可以发现电离能是逐渐升高的,我们可以从逻辑上思考一下为什么会这样。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We have had so much fun and it is really a great experience." And that's what the Boy Scout National Jamboree is all about - fun.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"We are not really upset about it, but what is psychologically disturbing is that people can be annoyed or feel insecure at the slightest differences that appear,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

In fact, it's a specific person's brain, and what's interesting about the brain is that little white mark there.

实际上这是个特殊人物的大脑,有意思的是,大脑上有个白色的小标记

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But is that literally true? Kenneth Libbrecht says it depends on what kind you're talking about, but if you mean the classic, complex six-sided version, the answer is yes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Who is the composer of the piece that you're about to hear and what is its title or what's it called?

下面你们要听到的片段的作曲家是谁,曲名是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

but at the end of the day it is what Martin Scorcese does best and that is portraying something about humanity and human nature and who we are as people."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

What it is about Baidu and the Chinese search market that's allowed Baidu to become much more successful than Google and Yahoo! in China?

是什么让百度在中国,比谷歌以及雅虎做得更成功？

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

There have been conflicting reports about what happened to the men after the kidnapping, but it is widely believed that the men were handed over to Islamist militants fighting to topple the Somali government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

And what this class will do is talk about how did it become orthodox Christianity, rather than one of the other kinds of Christianity?

这门课程将探讨的话题之一,是如何变成东正教的，而不是其他基督教？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"What is incredibly positive about the way the demonstration has come together is it is different groups of workers,students, different people that are affected by the crisis that is kind of gripping the system, actually coming together to say that collectively we can fight back and argue to put out priorities first,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

But if this is the reason, it's what people like to eat, what would you do about that?

但是如果原因是,垃圾食品合乎人们的胃口,你应该怎么做呢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But no matter where the conflict is or what it's about, if you're serious about peace, you can't take as final the first 'no,' the second 'no' or even the hundredth 'no.'" In her statement, Secretary Clinton promised an "unwavering" U.S.commitment to a two-state solution, based on 1967 lines with agreed land swaps, that will create an independent and viable Palestinian state and an Israel with secure and recognized borders.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.

就算约翰，巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What really matters about a leader is their committment to getting to the right answer and to doing it in the right way.

对于好的领导者而言,重要的是致力于,得到正确答案,以及如何用正确的方式来实现它。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选