We stop at the mouth of an inlet where an oil boom should have been set.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

but I'd like to, I'd love to see a system where, where you can work as an attorney no matter what

但我希望看到的制度是，你可以当律师，不论你的学历如何，

想成为律师的话 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One Senate vacancy remains from the state of Minnesota, where an election recount continues.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

You also read an article by Milgrom where Milgrom talks about Priestly cultic imagery serving as a kind of theodicy.

在米尔格罗姆的一篇文章中,这篇文章讲到祭司的宗教仪式,被形象化为一种神义论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He resided in Dallas, but taught classes during the fall semester at Texas A and M University in College Station, where an institute was established in his name.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

There's a lot of Christian churches where you can't get married in the outdoors, that's not an official way to get married.

有许多的基督教教堂,不允许在户外举行婚礼，在户外的婚礼并不代表正式结婚。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is the maritime region where North Korea has disputed a sea border for decades and where an international team of investigators concluded a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean patrol ship in March,killing 46 sailors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

That was an interesting situation where the project of one group of students was in fact a great solution for the product of another group of students.

这种情况很有趣,一组学生的项目,实际上就是另一组学生,推出的产品的解决方案。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

In an ideal world, where you can borrow and lend freely, an individual could choose consumption along any point on this line.

在理想情况下,你可以随意借贷,每个人都可以将这条线上任意一点,作为自己的消费额

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is a place where plants and animals from the Caribbean Sea share an ecosystem with native North American species.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

The kind of dualist position that we are considering in this class is an interactionist position, where the soul commands the body.

我们在这门课里,所讨论的二元论观点,实际上是一种互动论的观点,也就是认为灵魂可以控制肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But in the western United States, there are highways where the speed limit is one hundred twenty-five kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The answer is that simply knowing the particle has an acceleration is not enough to tell you where the particle will be.

答案是这样的,仅仅知道质点的加速度,是不足以告诉你它接下来的运动的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?"

VOA: special.2009.06.28

and we like log algorithms, because they're really fast. A typical characteristic of a log algorithm is a pro-- or sorry, an algorithm where it reduces the size of the problem by a constant factor.

并且我们也很喜欢对数算法,因为它很快,对数算法的典型特性是高速，哦，抱歉，是他能以常数因子的速度,降低问题的大小，很明显。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But Professor Yan says in his experience, there is an important area where man's best friend still wins compared to technology.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

What if we have a case where making an exception and violating individual rights actually will make people better off in the long run?

如果有个特例,侵犯个人权利,长远来看，反而让人们获益更多呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Robert Pinksy says poetry is also like dance -- an art form where the medium is the human body itself.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

So I said that we want to be talking about valence electrons here, so that means if we're talking about, for example, the octet rule for an f f molecule where we have two fluorine atoms, we need to write the valence electrons as dots around them.

我说过我们在这要讨论的是价电子，这就意味着，如果我们要讨论，比如，关于两个氟原子组成的分子的八隅体规则,我们首先需要把价电子画成围绕在它们周围的点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The men at the camp would run out of the buildings where they slept, thinking it was an earthquake.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Well, what if this division takes place in an environment where there's one kind of extra cellular matrix here and another kind of extracellular matrix here?

那如果在细胞分裂的过程中,两个子细胞的细胞外基质不同,会对它们产生什么影响

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

An airplane had flown over the area where the birds were kept and spread a powerful chemical called DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

How do you deal with that trade-off where you absolutely need an ad sales force but at the same time, if one person at a time, you just can't say let's go out and hire five good engineers or five good ad sales people and not have them be great?

如何做出选择，如何取舍,当你急需一批销售人员，但如果只碰见一个合适的人选，你不只能因此去找,5个差不多的工程师,或者5个差不多的广告销售？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

To the judge's right, along the side of the courtroom, is an area where twelve people are seated.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

And it might occur to some of you that this seems to be an analogy with the Darwinian theory of natural selection where there's a random assortment of random mutations.

也许你们之中会有人觉得,这和达尔文的自然选择理论,看上去很相似,自然选择就是随机突变的随机分配。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

where Plato's image as an educator drives.

柏拉图教育推动者的形象也显现出来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is an independent project where students are able to integrate what they've learned in their classes and take a step forward in the directions that they want to go in their own professional application of this.

这是一个独立课程,允许学生结合,课堂所学,进一步,应用于他们各自的职业。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选