A USA Today/Gallup Poll last May showed that fifty-eight percent of conservatives and Republicans supported letting gays and lesbians serve openly.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Her argument sounds -- and some of you may recognize this argument -- it sounds so distinctly like a political argument, an argument from political economy.

她的论点听上去--你们可能也发现这一论点-,听上去就像一个政治论点一样清晰，像是政治理财的理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It may seem crazy but-- it may seem like a modest innovation but it actually was-- it was an important innovation.

这看起来也许有些疯狂,它看上去只是一个小创新,但实际上...,这是一个很重要的创新

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Two years ago,European researchers reported that aspirin may have what they called a "long-term protective effect against colorectal cancer."

VOA: special.2010.12.14

But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended-- neither alive nor dead.

但是说到假死状态,我们就需要第三种可能了-,既不是死亡也不是生存。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Charles Wortmann at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says a one-time tillage may be used to correct a problem like aggressive weeds.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

There is no one-size-fits-all model of political life but good regimes may come in a variety of forms.

政治生活并没有大小通吃的模式,但好的政体,可能以各种形式存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If there is a large supply of seeds, then hand-operated presses may not be enough to support a business.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

It's an ignominy and a shame because it may very well be - I think this is without question what Satan is implying here - it may very well be that God is not actually omnipotent.

它是耻辱，是蒙羞，很可能是因为,-我认为毫无疑问撒旦是在暗示,-因为很有可能上帝其实不是万能的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Gerald Meehl says a better understanding of solar activity and its influence on weather may help researchers predict long-term weather conditions.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- or bought -- from somebody else.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

A word about grades-- you may in fact take this course pass-fail.

关于分数我有两句话要说，这门课只分及格和不及格两种。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

What you really want-- a ruler may not be enough, but maybe it's enough.

你还需要什么,一把尺子也许还不够,但可能也足够了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Project information manager Peter Okoth says a majority of farmers may have the information on-line in 3 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

It's a problem if we reject the police-like authority of authors, of whom we may have a certain suspicion on those grounds, when we certainly don't feel that way about Marx and Freud.

但若我们并不喜欢马克思和弗洛伊德，那么如果我们排斥警察，就好像因为对作者有所怀疑，而排斥作者权威的话，就有问题了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

The general story of why we can't in general is because there's no surprise, there's no mock aggression, and also there may be a general deadening of self-stimulation.

为什么大部分人不能胳肢自己,是因为它在我们意料之内，没有打闹的侵略性，通常这种引自己笑的念头都会嘎然而止。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In Nineteen Twenty-Seven, Benny married Sadie Marks, a sales girl from the May Company store in Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

As many as one hundred crystals may join to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

But you know, when people eat pancakes it may not be this extreme, but still, there are a lot of things that-- where the portion sizes are misestimated.

但当人们吃薄煎饼时可能没那么夸张,但仍然,量非常大,每日摄入量被完全错估了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In May, a thirteen-year-old American boy became the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

In 1877 a general called Mac-Mahon, who had fought in the 1870/71 war-- you may think that that's not a very French name; there's a strong Irish influence around Bordeaux.

877年麦克马洪元帅,他参加了普法战争--,你可能觉得那不是一个常用的法国名字,爱尔兰对波尔多有着很强的影响力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Or,that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Now as you may know-- some of you may have played clarinet in a high school band or something like that neither here nor there if you did or did not-- but you may know that there are other meters out there these things called six-eight .

好的,正如你们可能知道的那样,你们中的一些同学可能在高中校乐队里,吹过单簧管或其它乐器,无论是身在何处,不管你是否参加过那样的活动,你应该知道还有其他的节奏,称为六八拍

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Guinness officials may take more than a month to decide if they will accept a record-breaking attempt.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

And so they are hedging their belts, at least partly on India as a democratic English-speaking country ... which they may be able to... so strategically I think that's a very important sort of part in American thinking in terms of future of India.

所以美国要布下防线，至少在印度这个,说英语的民主国家布下防线,这样他们才可能。,因此从战略角度出发我认为,这是美国政府对于印度未来的,一大设想。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

- Up to this point -- and some of you may have felt this -- I have been throwing the word chastity around a little promiscuously.

直到现在--也许有些人已经感觉到了-,我使用贞节这个词有点混乱无章法。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选