It's also seen as a potential game changer for the struggling newspaper and magazine publishing industry, because of its built-in electronic reader.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

The operating system still finds it but this process of getting some of your files bits from here, some from here, some from here, induces a potential slow down.

操作系统根据文件块的地址,仍旧能够找到这一整个文件，这也导致了潜在速度变慢。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

and I think it's a very, it's a very large potential... new industry,

我觉得这，它是非常有潜力的……新产业，

对全球变暖的政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Any substantial eruption of a volcano has a potential to do that over a short period of time.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Rather, it's a potential fire that flashes up momentarily within us.

相反，它是股潜在之火,可以很快燃烧起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In recent years Britain has turned up the rhetoric, putting Iran alongside the likes of North Korea as a potential nuclear enemy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

So the main business of government consists in knowing how to control the elites because they are always a potential source of conflict and ambition.

因此统治的第一要务在于,懂得如何控制精英人物因为,他们往往是冲突和野心的潜在来源。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

President Obama said the U.S.government must be able to act decisively when information surfaces about a potential threat.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In December,Hungary,Slovakia and the Czech Republic faced a potential halt in oil deliveries from Russia which had a pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

So the idea of the model is each voter is a potential candidate.

这个模型中每个选民是一个潜在候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Researchers in Melbourne hope to isolate the most effective compounds for use in a potential vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

But it is in fact indicative of what's actually going on underneath the hood and for a forensic investigator to be honest and even problem set 5, it poses a potential wrinkle if those JPEGs, those photos we took are not contiguous back to back to back but are all over the place.

但是实际上就像那些法医调查员,所做的实质说明,其实对套题5也是如此，如果那些JPEG文件有问题，我们将其数据不能连续的,放回原来的地方，那么图像会呈现出波纹形状。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The other benefit is deterrence. "It will save time of fighting and will deter in many cases a potential enemy from really launching an attack."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

She's making a strong a claim as is possible to make for her potential for rhetorical power.

她提出一个强有力的要求,因为这可能有助于她掌握话语权的潜力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In November,11,000 jobs were lost. Mr.Obama says his $787 billion stimulus plan prevented a possible collapse of the financial system or a potential second Great Depression.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Because there are ions moving back and forth, there's a current that flows and there's a electrical potential that's generated.

由于离子的进进出出,就产生了电流流动,并且形成了电势差

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Public opinion surveys show Boozman leading in a potential match-up against either Democrat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

"It would be a potential threat to sort of a democratic government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

What people did is they said let's define a unit of energy that represents a unit charge accelerated across a unit potential difference, and let's call that the electron volt.

前人们所做的就是他们说让我们确定,一个能量单位用来代表一单位电荷,加速穿过形成的一单位电势差，我们叫它电子伏特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Retired Indian army Major General Dipankar Banerjee, dismisses worries of a potential coup and Indian re-intervention, but says Fonseka may desire to use the latter possibility for political currency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

What must this experiment have the potential to do, to be a valid scientific experiment?

实验必须有做什么的能力,才能被称为一个有效的科学实验呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The state's Republican governor,Tim Pawlenty, widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, refused to certify Franken after the recount, saying that he would wait until the state Supreme Court had ruled.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

You could not sell a security without giving a prospectus to the potential buyers and the prospectus would be something approved by the SEC.

没有招股说明书就不可以,出售证券给潜在买家,而且招股书需要通过证交会审核

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

House of Representatives Democratic majority leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Wednesday he is not yet at the point of being able to support a potential decision to send more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

I feel that I've fallen short of my potential " to really make a difference."

我觉得我能改变世界的能力,越来越弱了“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

American lives are on the line." Opposition Republicans see an opening in the administration's flawed handling of the failed attack, and appear eager to highlight the incident as a potential campaign issue for the November midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

And each time one of these errors occurs, or you get multiple errors that compound each other, then you've got a lot of potential error introduced in these messages.

每当有误差发生,或多重误差复合叠加,然后你所得到的信息,就会包含很多潜在的误差

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Any potential UROPs out there -- anyone planning to do a research at some point?

有没有人想参加UROP？,好样的？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选