For example, a person was 20% more likely to feel happy if a friend living within 1.5 kilometers was also happy.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Southern pro-slavery defenders are much more likely to stress a human's duty, than they're ever to stress a human's rights.

南方的亲奴主义者们,相比较人类的权利而言,更加强调人类的义务

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But, Hobbes believes it is simpler and easier and therefore more likely to catch the ear of a sympathetic prince.

霍布斯还相信,只有比较简单易懂的书,才更容易引起君王的怜悯之心。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Studies have shown that the fewer medicines a person has to take the more likely he or she will take them.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

So if it went up yesterday, it will more likely go up today, because I'm throwing in a positive number, otherwise a negative number.

所以如果它昨天涨了，那么它几天张的可能性也就比较大，因为我给它的是一个正值，否则就是一个负值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In other words, just because women cry more does not mean they are more likely to have a "good" cry.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The heavier a person is the more likely they are to die of cardiovascular disease.

人越胖,死于心血管疾病的风险越高

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Engineering and accounting graduates were more likely to have started their job search already and to have accepted a job.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The fewer feet, the more likely a romantic relationship, all other things being equal.

离得越近，越可能发展恋情，在其他条件一样的情况下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

If we have a small engine, and we have to pull the car up a steep hill,a difficult hill, the engine is more likely to collapse,to blow up.

如果我们用的引擎很小，想把车开上一个陡峭崎岖的山坡，引擎很容易损毁，爆炸。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Schools without a nurse on duty may be more likely to send an injured child to a hospital.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Either there will be nobody there or more likely there will be not a very big population, and it's not very tough, and they could be easily brushed aside.

所以要么那个地方没有人烟,要么就是人口稀少的部落,并不是很顽强,很容易就能被军队驱逐

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Thirty years ago the name Taylor was much more likely to go to a boy than a girl.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Scottish women who quickly became pregnant again after a miscarriage were more likely to be older.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

But this antigen presenting cell is more likely a professional antigen presenting cell, or a subset of cells of your immune system that are specialized in ingesting foreign particles and displaying their contents to the rest of the immune system.

但这种抗原呈递细胞更加类似于,专职抗原呈递细胞,或者是体内免疫细胞中的一个亚群,专门从事吞噬异己物质,并告知免疫系统的其他细胞的工作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In fact,a friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It's likely to increase, but there is more competition from India business India government has been a little more protective of India business They still have rules about which areas foreign investment can come in which areas they cannot come in.

也许机遇是有很多，但印度企业面临激烈的竞争,而印度政府又一直,有点过于保护本土企业,政府现在还有规定哪些领域,可以引进外资,哪些领域不准引进外资。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

That'll be much more likely to give you an A.

这样得A的机会更大。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Researchers found that those with a short version of a certain gene were more likely to get depressed after a sad or difficult experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In women over eighty, those who smoked were five and a half times more likely to develop AMD than the women who did not smoke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

That there's a lurking variable which is just that people are more likely to be born in June.

人们的研究对象之中有一个隐藏变量,那就是大多数人都是在六月出生的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And a friend of that friend was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

He is more likely to think like an actuary or a CPA or an insurance agent, always calculating the odds and finding ways to cover the damages.

他们更可能做保险员，注册会计师,或是保险代理人，因为这样的人更容易把握事情胜负的几率,以及时有效地找到补救之法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She found that such individuals who did not have health problems were eighty percent more likely to report a new health problem after losing their job.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

If you are high empathy, you're more likely to be a nice person than if you're low empathy, suggesting there is some connection between empathetic feeling and liking.

如果你有强烈的移情，你就很可能是一个很好心的人,比移情少的人更好心，这表明移情和喜欢之间,是有一定联系的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And when I ran that it, I got weird results, 300 because we know that a Google priced at, say, 300, is much more likely to move by 10 points in a day than a stock that's priced at $0.50.

当运行这个程序的时我得到很奇怪的答案，因为我们知道一只谷歌的股价大概是，对一个0。5美元的股票来讲,每天改变10个点才比较正常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选