"There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa."

VOA: special.2010.10.19

What we think of as a career isn't simply the benign product of the gradual development of a certain potential.

我们认为的事业不是简简单单的,某种可能性逐渐发展的良性产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.

这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"What the youth of America and their observing elders saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

What else is Yale, but an elite institution intended to educate, morally and intellectually, ? potential members of a leadership class?

耶鲁除了是精英学院,在道德与智能上用以教育，潜在的领袖阶级成员之外，它还有什么职能？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Flavor aside, scientists have recognized it as a complex blend of chemical compounds with potential health effects, both good and bad.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

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'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

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The flow of information is really a flow of electrical potential and it goes in one direction only.

信息流实际上就是电势差的流动,并且流动是单向性的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

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

Boeing's rival Airbus put on a show of its own, with its A380 double-decker soaring above potential buyers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

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

I think it says a lot about the potential of the human mind, particularly the creative potential.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

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

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

It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

As for Gaza,Hamzawy argues Egypt has a right to stop the potential influx of violence.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

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

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

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

ICANN says about half the Internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language, adding the change will affect billions of potential users.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

And here you get a potential infinity of sentences.

这样你就能得到潜在的无限数量的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The potential danger besetting the Lady is certainly a subject of some concern for her dutiful brothers.

包围着这位女士的潜在危险，当然是,一个思考他那顺从的兄弟的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

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

The electron volt is not a unit of potential difference.

电子伏特不是,就是一单位的电子伏特。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选