Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.

现在，这个希伯来词语“神圣“，根源的意思是独立。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If you had one negative number in it, then the product would be a negative number and, if you took a root of that, then you might get an imaginary number.

如果这当中有一个负数,乘积就会变成负的,如果你对一个负数开根号,你就会得到一个虚数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For his mathematical project, he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer, a number with no fractional parts.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

First of all, it's clear from the Pythagoras' theorem that a is the square root of ^2 + ^2.

首先,根据毕达哥拉斯定理,勾股定理在西方被称为"毕达哥拉斯定理"

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

The bottom of the root ball will look something like the spread-open wings of a butterfly.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

It was over here. Because the square root of a quarter is not smaller than a quarter it's bigger than a quarter. Right?

答案超出了这个区间,因为0。25的平方根会比0。25大,是应该比0。25大对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

At the base of the hair root is a small ball-like formation called a bulb.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

But if you can accept the purity of the statement I just made, it is at the root of the thing you have a solution.

但如果你能够遵从原教旨主义的方式,那么这就是你解决此问题的根本

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Yet root beer played a part in shaping the modern food and beverage industry.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work to grow.

VOA: special.2009.02.17

And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But Hamburg parsley has a large root which is used as a vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

And it is precisely this desire to be self-governing, you might say to rule directly, to have a direct part in political rule, that Hobbes saw as one of the great root causes of civil war.

正是这种自我统治的愿望，直接统治的愿望，在政治统治中直接参与的愿望，霍布斯视为是,内战一个很重要的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.

试想一下，所以这一切，Comus解释到：,小姐，坐，但如果我挥舞这个棒子，你的所有神经都束缚在这个大理岩上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂树那样，被绑在根上逃往阿波罗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A warning: the root must not be cut into smaller pieces.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If the root is used, then parsley is considered a vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Well I'm relying on the contract, if you like, that the manufacturer of square root put together, which is, if I know I'm giving it two floats, which I do because I make sure they're floats, the contract, if you like, of square root says I'll give you back a float.

好吧我能靠一些类似合约来保证，如果这么说你喜欢的话,其实就是当求平方根的方法,获得了两个我已经确认了是浮点数的数后,这个类似合约的东西就会保证，返回一个浮点数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This week,we move from root vegetables to a leafy vegetable.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

OK, once it gets to the end of that, what's it going to do? It's going to come down here and, oh. What's that doing? Well I cheated when I started. I said, somebody's giving me a perfect square, I'm looking for the square root of it. But suppose 15 I gave this thing 15, and asked it to run.

好，一旦到了循环的最后，程序会去做什么？程序会跳到这里来,噢，这是干什么的？好吧,当我开始的时候我有点小作弊的意思,我说过，我得到了一个完美的平方数,我要求这个数的平方根,但是假设下我得到的数是。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"It's so simple. With a two-liter bottle you add sugar, you add extract, you add a small amount of yeast and water, cap it up and in two days they've got root beer.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss for all of humanity, and at the base, at the root of that civilization stood the Greeks.

如果出于政治的目的而对此段历史,视而不见甚至完全摒弃,这对全人类,将是一个巨大的损失,追根溯源,这一切都根植于希腊文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

After a bullish start this year, a wave of pessimism appears to be taking root.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The idea really took root--the idea, the intuitive idea is that as you write a large number of policies, the fraction that will result in accidents becomes closer and closer to the probability of one accident.

这种观点建立在...,观点是,只要你签的保单足够多,事故占保单总数的比例就会越来越接近,事故发生的概率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"The recommendations are very clear." "For a country like Greece, you need to act on the fiscal side, and therefore addressing very forcefully the root causes of your fiscal problems through spending cuts and increasing taxation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Remember, I said when we do a bisection method, we're assuming the answer lies somewhere between Well, what is the square root of a quarter? It is a half.

记住，我提过当我们用二分法的时候,我们假设答案处于,上边界和下边界之间,0。25的平方根是多少？,是0。5。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Or, it could act like a square root machine.

或者，它可以表现的像个开平方根的机器。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选