So you might say you were as busy as a bee if you spent your weekend cleaning your house.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

So, you might say, well, gee, why don't we just power our cars with hydrogen, use an internal combustion chamber.

你可能会说，好吧，哎呀，为什么我们不把氢气,放在汽车内部的燃烧室，来给我们的汽车提供动力呢。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Now this is actually a poor way to do it, because you might say, well, it's just the list.

它以这种形式显示出来了，现在这实际上是一种很差劲的方法，因为你可能会说，好吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You might say when I wear my best clothes, I am dressed to the nines or dressed to the teeth.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

And some metaphysical views you might say just exactly like what the train the car stages are the metaphysically fundamental things.

从另外的形而上学角度,你可能会认为跟火车一样,汽车的阶段,就是形而上学来说基本的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In fact,you might say your house was a beehive of activity if your whole family was helping you clean.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

In those situations, you might say, and only in those situations, is it permissible to violate the precepts of ordinary morality.

在那些情势下，也可以说，仅在那些情势下，才能允许违背,寻常道德的戒律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If your home is very small, you might say there is not enough room to swing a cat.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

You might say, this should have been obvious to someone, but it had never been written up well before.

有人可能会说,这谁都知道,但之前从未有人记录下这个概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If someone is doing an extremely good job and is very successful, you might say he or she is batting one thousand.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And actually, a question that might come up, I just explained, the sodium channel, you might say, well, how do potassium channels work then, because I can understand how you can filter something big out, but how do you filter out something small.

实际上，可能大家会问一个问题，我刚解释过，钠离子通道，你可以说，好吧，那么钾离子通道该如何起作用呢，因为我可以理解你是如何把大东西过滤掉的，但是你如何把小东西过滤掉呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

You might say that someone is hedging his bet when he invests in several different kinds of businesses.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

So, in a first blush, you might say, well, why don't we just take the first ionization energy?

当你在这个问题上第一次陷入尴尬境地的时候，你可能会说，我们为什么不取第一个电离能呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And,if you wish someone good night, you might say, "sleep tight -- don't let the bed bugs bite."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Now, you might say that's an unsatisfying, unconvincing answer, at least for those who don't believe in God.

你可能觉得这答案无法令人满意，没说服力，至少对那些不信仰上帝的人来说是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

By the way, when I say there's 10 Newtons acting this way, you might say, "What about gravity? What about the table?"

顺便提一下我说有 10 牛的作用力,你也许会问,"那重力呢,桌子对它的力呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

If your friend cannot stop talking about something because she thinks it is important, you might say she has a bee in her bonnet.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

You might even go further, you might say modeling it is always going to miss stuff out, so let's just not bother.

你可能会更进一步说,建模的时候总会忽略一些因素,所以干脆也不要建模了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If someone asks you a personal question, you might say "that is none of your beeswax."

VOA: special.2010.12.26

So, some of you might say, "Hey, I'm just a great parallel parker so I'm a great driver."

有些人可能会说，“我平行泊车技术很好,”所以我是个好司机“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If something was the best of its kind, you might say it was the bee's knees.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

His curious fancy is more active than his desire. Or, you might say, his desire to know is more active than his desire to love.

他好奇的本质比欲望更强烈，或许你们会说，他求知的欲望比爱的欲望强烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When a person shares her feelings freely and openly like this, you might say she wears her heart on her sleeve, or on her clothing.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

And,you may or may not be intested in the motion, as I am, but you might say: what is the signal good for?

对于情感来说，你们或许有兴趣，也有可能和我一样觉得没意思，但你会问，这种信号什么用处？

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

You might say your child was good as gold when he behaved well at school.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

So first, you might say, well food is something that's found in nature, that humans have evolved to eat foods that are found in nature.

首先,你可能会说,食品是发现于自然界的东西,然后人类进化以适应食用这些自然之物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You might say such a person, "was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Well, you might say surely there could be creatures that would want to live forever, that would enjoy an eternal existence.

你们也许会说一定存在某种生物,会希望永远活下去，会享受一种永恒的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.

政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选