The students were asked to write down five words they might say after hitting their finger with a hammer.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

And to give you a size perspective, that is about the size of my pinky finger nail, 4 mm on the side.

这个芯片，有我的手指甲那么大，边长4毫米。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

I still have to do this process and here is where the finger thing gets a little more useful 'cause I have longer lists.

我仍需要进行这一步骤,在这儿手指的方法就比较有用，因为,列表比之前的要长。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Now take these two fingers-- the middle finger and the thumb-- and as much as possible, from that 90 degree angle, create a circle.

再让这两个手指-,中指和姆指-,尽可能保持直角时围成一个圆圈。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Harpers Ferry was built on a narrow finger of land where the Shenandoah River flowed into the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Bankers play golf a lot because business people like to play golf and you have to keep your finger on the pulse of the community.

银行家经常打高尔夫球,这是因为商企人士喜欢打高尔夫,而银行家需要时刻把握周边的经济脉搏

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

We could begin to put a certain amount of pressure on the text and possibly, as I say, - begin to do things with it which are kind of a five-finger exercise-- -- we'll be doing a lot more of that sort of thing--but which might work.

开始时我们应该对文本抱有一定的怀疑,就像我说的，用一种五指练习法来做-,以后我们会大量涉及到这种练习。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A two thousand seven British study showed that finger length might help predict test results among schoolchildren.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

You can certainly beat this with a ticking of finger typing.

当然你用手指敲击一下就可以。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

A way to know how much is to compare their ring finger to their index finger.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

You see a bleep going across the screen to indicate that they've got their finger on the pulse of what's happening, or you see it in TV shows like ER.

你们看到一个亮点在屏幕上来回跳动,来显示病人脉搏的,跳动情况,就像在急诊室的故事,这类电视中看到的那样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

This is real, unlike the Joule coefficient which is very small so that most gases have tiny Joule coefficients. So if you do a Joule experiment, you hardly measure a temperature change. With real gases, here you do actually measure it. You can feel it with your finger on your bicycle tire.

系数那样小以至于,大多数气体的焦耳系数,都很小，所以如果你做焦耳实验,很难测量出温度的变化,对于真实气体，你可以测量它，你能通过手指按在,自行车轮胎上来感觉到它。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And each brother wears a ring on the third finger of his left hand.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

My finger is a-shaking on this here trigger."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

That's the finger thing from left finger to right finger going back and forth across the board, never touching a number more than once.

在合并时，我的左手手指,和右手手指来回地在黑板上移动，但对每个数字只会碰到一次。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Correctness just doesn't do what it's supposed to do but then also design and design is one of those things it's a little harder to put your finger on initially, but it really is something to bear in mind especially toward terms end when you tackle your own final projects.

正确性“，就是有没有做应该做事情,然后是“设计“,刚开始时，“设计“相对来说比较难一点,但是这是直到这个学期末,都要记住的东西,当你处理的自己的最终方案时。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I could take and draw a line continually down the molecule where my finger was touching; my finger would be touching a phosphate here, the 5' carbon, the 4' carbon, the 3' carbon, and the next phosphate.

我可以画一条这样的线,沿着这个分子不断向下延伸到我指的地方,我指的这一点代表着磷酸基,5' 碳部位,4'碳部位,3' 碳以及下一个磷酸基

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So-- if you don't feel comfortable doing it, don't do it-- what I'd like to do now is as following: Take your thumb and your middle finger and create as much as possible a 90 degree angle.

感觉不舒服的，就不要做，希望按下面的指示做：,让你的姆指和中指,尽可能形成一个直角。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And if you are looking at a keyboard, we can predict in the real time very rapidly that beat your very single finger typing speed, exactly the letters you like to type and hit, therefore provide a communication mechanism that Christopher Reeve and those similar with him can benefit from.

如果你在看电脑键盘，你可以十分快速地,实时预知自己手指敲击键盘的速度，预知你想录入的字母，这样便为克里斯托弗·里夫,和其他你说熟悉的人提供了一种沟通机制，使他们从中受益。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选