They found that a city with only white rooftops could reduce the urban heat effect by thirty-three percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

To disfigure the mouth -- this is how I would interpret it -- to disfigure the mouth has a primary effect in rendering one at least temporarily speechless.

把嘴巴丑化--这就是我所理解的-,丑化自己的嘴巴使自己暂时不能说话,它是有十分重要影响的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A new study has found the strongest evidence yet that smoke-free laws can reduce a major effect of tobacco smoking - heart disease.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

A more recent side effect of Ambien that's quite serious is some people become--have the compulsion while they're sleeping to go driving, which is not good.

最近发现安必恩一个挺严重的副作用,有些人睡觉时,会有梦游驾车的冲动，这可不是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

New Wal-Mart stores have had a big effect on small communities in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

It won't be that--We can see why that personality emerges through karmic cause and effect in any way that are a function of what I was like in my life.

我们能明白为什么人格是如何通过,因果作用产生并且作用在我的生活中的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Online music stores and file-sharing have had a big effect on record sales.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

But it's also possible that it's a Homer Simpson-like effect, where when asked to point to what he wants, he just couldn't help but point to the one he wanted.

但也有可能这是一个类似于,霍莫·辛普森的效应,当被要求指向他想要的物体时,他只是情不自禁地指向了他想要的物体

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So each eye sees a slightly different image, producing the 3-D effect.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

I take chances no one else will--great driver," but above and beyond that there does seem to be a psychological effect manifested here and manifested elsewhere, which is a motivation to feel good about yourself.

我敢冒别人不敢冒的险，我是个好司机“,但除此以外,但似乎存在着一个心理原因存在于这个效应,和另外的效应中，那就是自我感觉良好的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

(Test) The U.N.Secretary-General says he is "optimistic" a climate-change agreement can be reached in Copenhagen that will include specific recommendations on key elements that will take effect immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

You're more likely--It's a subtle effect when you make the groups so minimal but you're more likely to give it to your own group than to others and this suggests that moral feelings are exquisitely attuned not necessarily only to individuals but also to the psychology of groups.

你很可能…这是微细效应,因为这些群体非常简单,你很可能把钱给自己群体，而不是对方,这表明道德情感是很细微的,不仅是针对个人而言,也是针对群体心理而言。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Tuberculosis is a common side-effect of HIV infection.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

What remains to be seen is whether this will have a long-term effect,positive effect on the security forces, and maybe are there ways we can replicate some of these treatment programs to be more inclusive of the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23