Some people call the Waterboxx a water battery because of its ability to collect and store water.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

We could just collect a bunch of data. For a material .What's the volume it occupies at some pressure and temperature?

对一种物质我们可以得到一系列测量数据,在给定的温度和气压下,它的体积是什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Sometimes second messengers collect signals from a variety of different receptor systems, translate them into one kind of internal change, and the cell then just has to know about that one thing changing.

第二信使分子能够收集,来自不同受体系统的信号,将它们转化为同一种细胞内在的变化,这样细胞就只需对一种变化作出反应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

They collect a minimum of 50 surveys each of spectators."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

But because in many cases we can reasonably either model or measure equations of state, collect data for a material for its temperature, pressure, volume relations, then in fact if we can relate all these quantities to those then in fact we really can calculate essentially all of the thermodynamics. For the material.

但是因为在很多情况下,我们能够合理的给出状态方程的模型,或者通过收集一个物质的，温度，压强和体积之间的关系,来测量其状态方程，所以实际上我们可以给出压强等物理量,和热力学势之间的关系,并计算出所有的热力学势，对于给定的物质。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"Obama as a presidential candidate was big news in Africa,and I decided that since we have a commitment in this library to collecting all kinds of information materials produced in Africa, we should immediately begin to collect materials about Obama, about how Africans responded to the Obama candidacy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

concerned his refusal to join in the judgment to condemn and execute the ten Athenian generals who had failed to collect the corpses, the bodies, of the men lost in a particular battle during the Peloponnesian War?

关于他拒绝参与,谴责及处决十名雅典将军的审判,只因为他们无能,运回战死官兵尸体，那些在著名的伯罗奔尼萨战役中,牺牲的官兵？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And during that time, a new kind of structure arose called news groups that is where computers on the net will be used to collect e-mails and keep them, so that other people might view a conversation conducted an e-mail, and this will be categorized by topics.

在那段时间里，一种新结构出现了,叫做“新群体“，它是连网的电脑用来,收集和保存电子邮件的地方，以便于,其他人可以查阅通过电子邮件进行的会话,它会以话题进行分类。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This is very important,which is why I am doing it: "If we want to know how fast a human being can run, then it is no use to average out the speed of a "good sample" of the population; it is far better to collect Olympic gold medal winners and see how well they can do.

这话非常重要，是我作这个研究的原因：,“如果想知道人类最快能跑多快，那从好的样本中测出平均数是“,没用的;,而应该收集田径类奥运冠军的信息,看他们能跑多快。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选