And often there is a big gap between the two and South Korea is a good example of that."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

This is Aristotle's Law of Identity: A is A-- it feels good to feel good.

这是亚里斯多德的“同一律：,一即一，感觉好就是感觉好。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Remember, you've got to keep track of the sign of acceleration, so if you're picking up speed towards the ground, a is negative, so it will be g plus a, but a is a negative number.

记住,一定要注意加速度的符号,所以当你加速下降的时候,a 是负的,还是 g 加上 a,但是 a 是负数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

A pickup is a device that captures the vibration of the metal guitar strings and changes them into electronic sound signals.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

So most of you know, hopefully, that a mule is a combination of a donkey and a horse.

希望大部分同学都知道，骡子是驴和马的一种组合。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A barbershop is a place of trust where men can talk about things they might not want women to hear.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

Einstein is only a theoretician and de Broglie is a theoretician, so one theoretician propping up another theoretician, this is a mutual admiration society.

爱因斯坦是个理论家,布罗意也是，因此一个理论家可以去认可另一位，这是个彼此仰慕的社会。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

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

This doesn't look forward to Humbert's poem; it already is a poem and it is a poem to the crazed, aroused mind of Humbert.

不期待亨伯特自己的诗，它已经是一首,让其疯狂，引其深思的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

However,putting a silver sixpence inside a shoe is generally not a tradition followed by brides in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

A planetarium is a theater with a rounded ceiling onto which images of the stars and planets are projected.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

A pure investment bank is not a depository institution and it's also--a pure investment bank is not a broker- dealer either.

一个真正的投行不是一个储蓄机构,当然一个真正的投行也不是证券公司-,或者发行公司。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

One is I've been talking as though a person is a combination, kind of a soul and body sandwich.

一点是我已经谈论过的,人是一种组合,有点儿像灵魂和肉体三明治

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One is a belief that a government is stable and that the justice and legal systems are fair and effective.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

and we like log algorithms, because they're really fast. A typical characteristic of a log algorithm is a pro-- or sorry, an algorithm where it reduces the size of the problem by a constant factor.

并且我们也很喜欢对数算法,因为它很快,对数算法的典型特性是高速，哦，抱歉，是他能以常数因子的速度,降低问题的大小，很明显。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

A seizure is a sudden attack that may affect a person's mind or body for a short period.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

This is a gift of flour and oil and incense, which is burned after a portion is removed for the priests as dues to the priests, the rest is burned on the altar again with a sweet smell from the incense.

祭品是面粉、油和香，这香的一部分被掰去，作为祭司的会费,剩下的部分摆在祭坛里燃烧,会发出一股甜甜的味道。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A stencil is a thin sheet of metal or plastic out of which a design has been cut.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So it's 2 to the 32, 'cause remember a bit is a 0 or 1.

就是2的32次方，因为1比特只能表示0或。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Manny is a wooly mammoth, Sid is a ground sloth and Diego is a smilodon or saber-toothed cat.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Malaria causes a million deaths per year, and schistosomiasis, which is a parasitic disease, is unfortunately a common cause of death in the world.

疟疾每年造成一百万死亡,而血吸虫病,这是一种寄生虫病,不幸的是,它是世界上很常见的死因

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Writing a term paper, research paper or essay for a college class is a kind of academic writing.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

The speech of Saint Peter seems, I think, in a lot of ways to be a lot more like a fire and brimstone sermon than it is a passage in a pastoral poem.

我认为圣彼得的演说，在很多方面似乎很像是一场关于炼狱磨难的布道,而不是田园诗中的一段。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The ruling is based on the idea in the United States and many other countries that a corporation is a legal person.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There is a palace economy, there is a script, there is a bureaucracy, and there is collectivized agriculture under the central control of the economy.

有王宫经济,有文字,有官僚制度,有中央集权经济下的,集体农业

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Strategic substitutes is a strategy, is a statement about the nature of the game.

策略替代是一种策略,这是对于博弈性质的一种描述

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选