They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

We're not being merely churlish, I think, if we want to ask why someone would want to write a poem in such a form.

我们要问为什么会有人,想要写这种形式的诗并非毫无道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some people think that buying artwork is a form of investment. What do you think of that?

有的人觉得购买艺术品是一种投资。你有什么看法？

关于购买艺术品 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The Department of Education says sexual violence is a form of sexual harassment of students which violates Title Nine.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

It's a supposition that whatever the object of theory might be, - theory itself must-- owing to whatever intellectual constraints one can imagine-- be of such and such a form.

不管理论是关于什么事物的，它自己都只能-,由于人们思想的局限性-,以猜想的形式存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Researchers found that these drinkers develop a form of esophageal cancer six to ten times more often than those without the deficiency.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Now, this is a form of competitiveness with which we are all familiar.

这就是竞争,我们已经很熟悉了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Aristotle's statesman Aristotle's statecraft his political science is a form of political mediation how to bring peace to conflict ridden situations.

亚里士多德的政治家,亚里士多德的权术,他的政治科学是一种政治斡旋的形式,如何将和平带入满是冲突的情势。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The brochure called itself a form of propaganda designed to persuade, teach and influence visitors to the museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Laughter could be viewed as a form of involuntary noisemaking and it's contagious.

我们可以把笑声视为不由自主地发出的声音,然后笑声有感染性。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The disease is a form of stem rust named for its discovery in Uganda ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Can anybody name a form of pop music, any one form?

你们中谁能说出流行音乐中的曲式,任何一种

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Thirty of them had been identified as having mild autism, a form also known as high-functioning autism.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

There has to be a form for the company.

保险机构必须有某种组织形式

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Legionella bacteria can cause a form of pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

So, it's more effective because it's a live virus but it's a little bit more concerning because it's a live virus as well, in that you trust that it's attenuated but could it convert back to a virulent form or a form that caused a disease.

因此,口服疫苗更加有效,因为它是活性病毒,但又是因为这一点,人们也存有更多顾虑,当它处于减毒状态时你会信任它,但是它会不会转变回,强毒壮态或者致病状态呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Her aim was to make as simplified a form as possible -- a wooden box.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

This is a form of discrimination that is protected explicitly by American law.

这是一种歧视行为，法律明文禁止。

退休很神奇 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The group said the video was anti-Christian and represented a form of hate speech.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

She is acting out a form: in the first case the form of romantic fiction, the heroine who swoons back in this scene the form of the game, the perfect form of tennis.

她总是摆出一些姿势：,第一次是在爱情小说中疲倦已极的女主角,这一次则是游戏，完美的网球游戏。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Some credit cards offer a form of insurance and could also face claims.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Yeah, particularly when it takes prophetic form, that is a form that stands in condemnation of those things in sort of order, in the rums of power, that enslave people, that oppress people that mistreat people.

是的，尤其是以先知预言形式出现的时候，谴责那些,在命令和权力下，奴役人们，压迫人们,虐待人们的现象。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation similar to, but shorter than,radio waves.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

It was a form of behavior, demeanor.

那是行为举止的一种表现形式

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

John Lewis often used a form of music called fugue.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

That's a form of marketing.

这也是一种营销方式

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Pahlevani is a form of physical training for self-defense.

VOA: special.2010.12.01

Although this is a form of an argument that Plato does put forward in other dialogues as well, and so it strikes me so there's at least some reason to think this is an argument that he felt might well be right.

由于这个型相的论点,柏拉图在其他的对话录里也提到过,所以这令我觉得他可能,觉得这个论点可以成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Let me disclaim, too, we're by no means perfect so the Harvard courses APP that a lot of you used on the web to shop for courses, we recently sent out a form to get feedback from everyone because we don't doubt that it was imperfect the first time around, but we're going to iterate and make amends with that.

我不是说，我不是说要完美,你们大部分使用哈佛大学课程APP来在网上选课,我们最近给你们发了一个表单，从你们那里,得到反馈，因为我不怀疑,第一次时它是有瑕疵的,但是我们将反复地道歉。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选