Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

So they're the same shape, this is the shape of the orbital or the shape of the wave function, and we can call this either 2 p x a being combined with 2 p x b, or we could say since it's the same shape, it's 2 p y a being combined with 2 p y b.

它们形状是一样的，这是轨道的形状或者波函数的形状，我们叫它2pxa和2pxb结合，或者我们说因为它们的形状是一样的，它是2pya和2pyb结合。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What are some of the particular opportunities and challenges of being a Muslim chaplain in America on a secular university campus?

美国大学中的穆斯林教士,一般都会遇到一些,什么样的机会和挑战呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Being a hobo is produced in this little vignette by the experience of seeing a hobo get pie from your mother.

当流浪汉是受了小时候经历的影响,就是看到一个流浪汉从妈妈那儿得到了一块派。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He decided it was a sign that he needed to make his dream of being a building designer a reality.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

I did that for about 10 months of period, and that resulted it being a better or the best Chinese search technology.

这样做了有10个月之久，结果就是,百度拥有了更好或者是最好的中文搜索技术。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One reason for not cheating is that a person might fear being criticized in public for cutting in line.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

Just like Fahrenheit measuring 96 degrees being a warm-blooded healthy man, right, that's not very accurate.

依然不太完美,回忆一下华氏温标,它把健康人的体温，定义为96华氏度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Also in Kenya, a video game is being tested as another way to teach young people to avoid H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

I was being a little lazy on Wednesday in the interest of simplifying the code as much as possible.

在周三我在那个网站上尽可能地,简化代码的时候，我有点偷懒。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

And a large part of being a good programmer, or learning to be a good programmer, is learning how to debug. And it's one of these things where it's harder.

没人能凭本能做好它，如果你相当一名优秀的程序员，或者想通过学习成为一名优秀的程序员,很重要的一部分就是学习怎么去调试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"And what did you think of it?" "I loved the movie. Of course,being a true story made me more interested.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The idea in this course is that by being a financial markets course, you have to know how the world works.

这门课的要旨在于,一门金融市场课,你会从中学到世界运转的方式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

said average Joe. He was being a doubting Thomas, someone who does not believe anything he is told.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And Rutherford, who I have already described to you as being a little bit colorful in his language, backed up Bohr on this.

而卢瑟福，就是以前我跟你们提过的那个,语言丰富生动的人，在这一点上证实了波尔的理论。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

In nineteen ninety-five at the age of fifty, she received a great deal of attention for being photographed without clothes in a magazine.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

And what humanistic psychology said was that we are much more than a billiard ball being knocked around.

而人本主义心理学认为,我们不只是被击打的台球。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In two thousand, then-President Bill Clinton told the world that international and private groups had identified the genetic structure of a human being.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

As it becomes more of a unity it will be like a household instead of a polis and a human being instead of a household.

当它愈趋近于一体,它变成像是家庭，而非都会,更像一个个体，而非家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said the Senate was a political body that was being asked to settle a political question.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

So if you could stop a tumor from being able to develop blood vessels you might be able to stop its growth at a stage where it's not harmful.

所以,如果我们能通过阻止血管的生成,来阻止肿瘤的发展,就可以在肿瘤还处于良性阶段时扼制它

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You cannot truly achieve what you want and need as a human being without being an active and loyal citizen of this great community which you need to achieve what you want in life.

在这个你必须有所作为的庞大社会中,如果你并非一个积极且虔诚的公民,那么你就无法真正实现,你的所需和所求

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选