"The trouble in the street was caused by a man who had almost been run over by a horse and carriage.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Multiply a by a to the b minus 1.

这很不错对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Maybe you have offended a client by inadvertently approaching a subject that is offensive to her.

假设你因为无意地提起一个冒犯了客户的话题而惹恼了客户。

I didn't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When a friend is troubled by a mistake he has made, you might tell him to forget about it.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

This is the poem in which the speaker grieves over a death by imagining a procession of mourners at the funeral.

在《牧歌》第十首中，讲述者想象葬礼上,的一行送葬者，来哀悼一个死者。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

People watched and commented on a speech by President Obama that was broadcast to students nationwide from a Virginia high school.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

This is a photo by another American photographer, Walker Evans, a photo of Brooklyn Bridge. You recognize it.

这是美国摄影家沃克埃文斯拍摄的一张照片，你们可以看出，是拍的布鲁克林大桥。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It can process images taken by a camera into sensations that could be used by a blind person wearing it.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

What is so different? What's different about having one God, from having a pantheon of gods headed by a superior god?

二者差别这么大吗？只信奉一个神，与信奉由一个主神领导的诸神有什么不同？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

This sentence expands to a noun followed by a verb followed by a sentence and there you get recursion.

这个句子就扩展成了,一个名词,后跟一个动词,再接刚才的句子,这样就变成了递归

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Taking a warm bath or sitting by a fire or doing some exercise can also help the body warm up.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

But I know when I multiply a vector by a number, I get a vector in the same direction.

但是我所知道的是当矢量乘以一个常数,我会得到一个同方向的矢量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Black women who could not attend her schools could learn the Walker hair care method through a course by mail.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Linear algorithms tend to be things where, at one pass-through, you reduce the problem by a constant amount by one. If you reduce it by two, 1 it's going to be the same thing.

有问题么？,线性复杂度的算法，当进行了一个,常量级步数的操作的时候，将问题的规模缩小了一个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This year also marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Not by some very arcane numeric address inside my computer's memory, but by a symbol, by a name.

不是通过一些在我电脑内存中的神秘的数字地址,而是通过一个符号，一个名字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Some said it was a plot by members of the stock market to ruin farmers and seize their land.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Such individuals will subordinate their own desires and pleasures to the group, and live a life by a strict code of honor.

这种个体,会将自己的欲望与愉悦,放到团体之后，过着一种严格遵守荣誉规范的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now a study by the Seattle Children's Research Institute shows how that idea can influence what parents order for their children.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The 312 particles are held together in a nucleus by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called memo-ons.

12个粒子汇合与一个原子核里,连续不断的,叫做memo-ons的介子的交换给它作用力。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Without new treatments, the WHO said, the number of new cancer patients could increase to 27 million a year by 2030.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He said the mission in Iraq is changing from a military effort led by troops to a civilian effort led by diplomats.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Now we'll play a passage of Mozart-- a symphony by Mozart here that he wrote at the ripe old age of nine years.

现在我们要放的这个片段来自莫扎特-,这首交响曲是莫扎特在九岁那年写的。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Rene Czudek at the FAO says a baboon frightened by a snake sandwich will probably not come back.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

If it happened to be that everybody dies in a room by themselves, that would be interesting.

如果他们都刚好死在自己的房间里，这也许有趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And in other economic news, a report by the Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index shrank by less than expected.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

And so, he tried to diffuse that with a pun by saying, Non sum rex said Caesar.

于是,他想用一句双关语来辟谣,凯撒说"余非君"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I can't sell myself into slavery any more than I can take somebody else's life or take someone else as a slave by force.

不能将自己变卖为奴隶,我也不能剥夺他人生命，或胁迫他人成为奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选