"Marmaduke" is a film about a Great Dane and his human family who move to California from the Midwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

How do we have a conversation about what does it mean to be a well-rounded student at an American university today?

我们如何建立这样一个对话,就是在当今的美国大学中,如何才能成为一个全方位发展的学生？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is very simple but it's a great way to ask about a specific category among many different categories.

这是个非常简单的句型，但它在询问不同种类中某一特定类型的事物时是非常理想的句型。

What kind of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

So we're in this kind of situation where we have the hangovers of Christianity still occupying the culture, without necessarily knowing a lot about it.

所以我们的当代文化,虽然受到基督教遗留的影响，但同时这种影响并不是巨大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In a book about her life, Nina Simone wrote that everything that happened to her as a child involved music.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

It was nice because it wasn't just, "Okay, Let's write a story" or "Let's do a research about the animal" or "Let's do a poem about fish".

说它出色，因为孩子们这样做，不是因为老师要求“,或布置的任务“,或学校强制。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

At a slam earlier this month, one poet performed a piece about a girl with a very troubled mother.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

She took him willy-nilly to her." He's telling a story about himself, seemingly, but who is the "I," then, that's left over? "I feel her yet."

她犹疑不决地把他拉向自己，他在讲关于自己的故事，似乎是这样，但谁是“我“呢，“我感觉到了她“，又是什么“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Years later, Ms.Skloot began research for a book about Henrietta Lacks, her cells and their influence on medical and scientific history.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Can you talk about a little bit about how you get to convince, because you could be arguing and arguing, and all of a sudden you realize No.

你能不能说说你是怎样去坚定想法的呢？,你是在和别人辩论的过程中，突然意识到,不是。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For example, in nineteen twenty-one, a Swiss doctor, Walter Morgenthaler published a book about the art of his patient, Adolf Wolfli.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

So that he knew a lot about music, but he never performed or never was active as a musician.

他对音乐很懂，但他从来没有,表演过或者成为一个积极的音乐人。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

In nineteen ninety-nine, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released a report about mistakes in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

We could use the name of a genre, and I'll be talking a lot about genre in this course.

我们可以用某种音乐风格描述它,本课程中,我将会谈到很多音乐风格

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

During this period, hair grows at a rate of about three tenths millimeters a day, or one centimeter a month.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

What I am talking about today, I will not be testing you, but maybe you might pay attention because about a month from now we will ask you a few skill testing questions about it.

我说的是今天，我等会不会测试你，但是你可能会重视了,因为一个月之前,我们问了你关于一些测试的技能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The director says "Living in Emergency" is a story about how things are, not how you wish things were.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And the second thing that we talked about is this idea that we want you to in fact learn how to relate a choice you make about a piece of code to what the efficiency is going to be.

关于这个方法第二件事,就是我们实际上希望,你在写代码的时候,能做出优化效率的选择,因为此。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But there was still a question about whether corporations could have the same freedom of political speech as real people do.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

In 1953 there was a documentary made about the deportation of Jews, from Paris, and there was a film made about this.

在1953年有个纪录片,关于遣送犹太人,从巴黎,也有一部电影是关于这事的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Professor Auerbach describes how the evolution of vampires tells a great deal about a culture's fears, which change over generations.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

You could potentially learn a lot about its function by looking at how it moves, not just a static picture of it.

你会有可能通过观察心脏的跳动,而不仅仅是通过静态的造影图,来了解它的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

And Milton's asking in these lines not simply about actual erotic entanglements -- although I think that's there, a relation with women -- but it's a question about erotic poetry as well.

在这几句弥尔顿问的不仅是,实际的性的缠绵--尽管我认为确实有这一方面，同女人的关系--他也是在问情诗的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Last week, a study was released about a new treatment that combines five medicines for heart disease in one pill.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We have talked a lot about salt. Keep in mind that doctors advise people to limit the sodium in their diet.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

People write about it, they lobby about it, they care a lot about it, the food industry spends a lot of time worrying about it.

人们为其著书立说,上下游说,对其相当重视,食品行业则甚为忧虑

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There is a legal release form-- we'll talk about it in a minute--about the videoing.

里面有一张授权书,是关于视频采集的,我们一会再说这个

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选