The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

false It's going to return true if it's a PAIL-indrome and false if it's a PAL-indrome. And it says true. Now maybe you're bugged by this.

如果不是会问的话则是,返回的是真值,那么你可能会觉得这个很烦。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

instead, he threw in a six-week-old puppy and said "keep it!" and ran away. So I got a puppy.

但他却扔进来了一只六个月大的小狗，说“养它吧！”然后跑掉了。于是我有了一只小狗。

大城市是否危险？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The study involved forty-four traders and their profits and losses over a twenty-month period ending in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

You have therefore one world, - and in fact this whole dream of Alexander-- and it was a very self-conscious, propaganda campaign and a cultural campaign on Alexander's part.

成为一个世界，事实上，亚历山大的这个梦想-,对于他本人来说，是一场自发的宣传运动及文化运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

You take a nine-month-old and for Piaget a nine-month-old is just starting to make sense of objects and their permanence.

你找到一个九个月大的婴儿,在皮亚杰看来,九个月大的婴儿才刚刚发展出,客体以及客体永存性的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The supplies you will need are sterling silver wire,round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers,flat-nosed pliers with a tip, and flush cutters."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

There's a term--I should write some of my terms down-- a very important term in finance and that's "dilution."

有一个词,我把它写下来,金融学中非常重要的词,叫"摊薄"

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He says the group used a million-and-a-half-dollar donation from the Nike Foundation to expand the program to cricket players in India.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Something that takes two inputs, a left operant - and a right operant and it just returns a Boolean value is-- or rather it returns a left to right value.

它有两个输入，一个是左边的作用物,一个是右边的作用物，然后返回一个布尔值-,或者更确切地说，返回一个从左到右的值。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These include a Jewish klezmer music version, a gay dance-along version and a sexy version for adults only.

VOA: special.2010.12.22

I write it out in a verse-- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

我在诗中把它表达出来-,麦克多纳和麦克布莱德,还有康诺利和皮尔斯,现在，或是将来，那所有披上绿色的地方，一切都变了，彻底变了：,一种惊人的美已经诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I could see that the word w-a-t-e-r meant something wonderful and cool that flowed over her hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

That is a way of putting a cloned gene into a micro-organism and then using that micro-organism as sort of a factory for the protein.

这方法把克隆基因植入微生物之后,将其作为某种形式的蛋白质工厂

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

These included a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet and a Mediterranean diet, which is made up of fruits,vegetables, lean proteins,olive oil and nuts.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

But the fact is that I'm sure there are a few people - - thay may be more than a few in the facility - who do feel that rock and roll is not exactly what one says fit and proper.

不过事实上，我相信,在学校里确实有许多人-,认为摇滚和艺术,并不完全相称。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

That mist is a mountain--and that mountain must be conquered.

那是一座高山，而它注定要被征服。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But he says he felt the greatest satisfaction when a thirteen-year-old painted the word "gun" and then put a big "X" through it.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Well, we have this idea of a seven-note major and seven-note minor.

那个,我们有这么个概念,七音符大调和七音符小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Today, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates a pain and symptom-control service for all its cancer patients.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

If you make three people-- or even better, four people a day feel good and they make-- they pay it forward and make four others feel good, and so on and so on.

如果你能让三个人-,甚至四个人度过美妙的一天-,他们会推展，让四人有美好的一天，以此类推。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In nineteen fifty-two, George Ballas married Maria Louisa Marulanda, a Spanish-flamenco dancer and film actress.

VOA: special.2011.07.19

That is not true for Crete because, although they had a script-- and we have available to us tablets with those writings on them-- to this day no one has deciphered the language written by the Minoans.

不过对于克里特来说不行,因为,虽然他们的确有一些手稿存世...,我们能够看到这些写着字的残片,不过直到今天,没有一个人能破译米诺斯文明的文字

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Today,the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates a pain and symptom-control service for all its cancer patients.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Imagine I have a little lamp, a little goose- one of those little gooseneck lamps, I'd put it on the table here, I'd put the height about a f-- about a foot off the table. And if I was really good, - I could hit, or time it so that when I hurt- yeah, try again. When I turn this on switch on in the lamp, at exactly the same time, I'm going to hit a key on my computer and start it running.

想象下我有一个那种小雁颈台灯-,我把它放在桌子上，大概离桌子，有一英尺那么高吧,这样挺好的，我可以打开-,或者关闭这灯,并在这同时，我可以让我电脑,开始运行。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Lots of 6-year olds, 9-year olds, 12 year-olds, a couple teenagers, and I do have 2 adult students.

很多六岁、九岁、十二岁的学生，几个青少年，我也有两个成人学生。

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